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Subject: I can't play online Help me!

If you still see me Run, Run, Fast as you can Shotgun in hand Towards Your nearest Gingerbread Man.

okay can some one help me I cant play through gamespy on multiplayer! it says crap like cant connect to master server so how can i play and ive never been able to play on line .

  • 08.11.2005 4:59 PM PDT
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When I first started playing Halo PC i thought that I couldnt play online (which i couldnt) but i worked out why:

You have to double the Game Spy Arcade icon on your desk top and register with them and then you can play online.

  • 08.12.2005 3:39 AM PDT
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you do NOT need to regester to gamespy
when you get that error, it means you have some sort of connection problem. when my wireless used to go out, i'd get that message. how are you hooked up to the internet and who's your ISP?

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  • 08.12.2005 7:04 AM PDT
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Yes, in fact do not install gamespy arcade at all!! It is loaded with spyware, it took me a while to get it all off of my computer.

  • 08.12.2005 7:17 AM PDT
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how do u register every time i try it says somethin like in valid email and my email is not invalid help?

  • 08.12.2005 7:40 AM PDT
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Posted by: MorphKing
how do u register every time i try it says somethin like in valid email and my email is not invalid help?

DON'T RERGISTER

  • 08.12.2005 7:45 AM PDT

If you still see me Run, Run, Fast as you can Shotgun in hand Towards Your nearest Gingerbread Man.

thanks so now i can just play without gamespy or nothin besides the internet?

  • 08.12.2005 8:56 AM PDT
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I've recently started playing online and am not finding very many servers. What is the best way to find servers? Should I use the built in server browser or is there another program I can use?

Once I get my list of servers, what is the general policy on joining games? Is it fine to join any server with open slots? Or only ones that are explicitly public?

I am a total clueless n00b when it comes to the online gaming community.

Hamar

  • 08.12.2005 11:25 PM PDT
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Hamar you should go on to join game on the internet.

  • 08.13.2005 2:31 AM PDT

If you still see me Run, Run, Fast as you can Shotgun in hand Towards Your nearest Gingerbread Man.

okay since u have a question can u give me an answer first? how didja get on? if i can connect then we can then vs each other and go to join internet lan is for multiple computers connected to each other through a lan cable.

  • 08.13.2005 7:26 PM PDT
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Okay, you've got a lot of questions...

Let's see...where to begin? Gamespy has spyware. Ironic, no? Gamespy? Lives up to its name...

A bit of background on Gamespy and Halo. Gamespy is the master server which acts like a directory to all HPC games. A computer must access the Gamespy master server through Halo, and the masterserver will show all avalible games and such. When your computer tells you that it can't connect to the Master Server, that means the game doesn't detect an internet connection, period. I usually get that message when I forget to plug the ethernet cable into my laptop or when my internet box is on "standby" mode.

You don't need to register with Gamespy. And Gamespy IS filled with spyware.

  • 08.13.2005 9:26 PM PDT
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Norton only says that gamespy is an adware threat that it can't remove. I just know that it's difficult to use. Xfire all the way!

  • 08.13.2005 10:22 PM PDT
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Posted by: Hamar Skald
I've recently started playing online and am not finding very many servers. What is the best way to find servers? Should I use the built in server browser or is there another program I can use?

Once I get my list of servers, what is the general policy on joining games? Is it fine to join any server with open slots? Or only ones that are explicitly public?

I am a total clueless n00b when it comes to the online gaming community.

Hamar


try using xfire it has a server option, download it from www.xfire.com it also helps alot if u want to join your freind's match and he has xfire. great for clans too.

  • 08.13.2005 11:34 PM PDT
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I reinstalled Halo and then totally screwed up my wireless conneciton then fixed it and now I see 5 times as many Halo servers. I still only see 2-3 pages of Halo CE servers.

This is using the Halo built-in Gamespy powered server list.

I'll try Xfire and I've downloaded a couple of server checker programs as well.

  • 08.14.2005 12:12 AM PDT
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You do NOT have to double the gamespy, place an icon for it on the desktop or register your copy with gamespy. I don't suggest you do either.

Yeah, if you're just having trouble with gamespy, you might try a different sever browser like xfire (preffered) or The All Seeing Eye from yahoo (it works, mostly...).

We need to know about your internet connection though. Are you DSL or dial up? if you're dial up and the connection just doesn't seem to be working or you start to connect and it crashes, it could be that you have a partitioned 26k connection from your phone company or ISP. If this is the case, we can't help you. Halo won't play on that, period, and you won't be able to connect to any servers.

I know this because I had a 26k partitioned connection a while back. I couldn't connect to gamespy either until I dished out the green for DSL.

If you've already registered with Gamespy, go to http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ and get the freeware of Ad-aware. It'll clean those pesky spywares off (even if they're Windows spyware). I've said it before, I'll say it again: Ad-aware doesn't care. It kills em all!

Finally, you mentioned LAN and half a dozen alarm bells went off in my head: if you're trying to join a game on a LAN, you have to have Halo running to two computers on your Local Area Network. Correct me if i'm wrong, but that means you have to have halo PC running on two computers in your HOUSE!

If you're trying to join a LAN game, there's a big part of your problem. Choose internet game from the file server and you should get about eight pages of hits for PC, and 2 to 3 pages for Custom Edition.

Also, your firewall may give you trouble. Try shutting it down while you start up halo PC and go into multiplayer. If you connect without problems, you may need to change the settings of your firewall to allow Halo PC to go through. personally, i'd have to dumb down ZA so much it wouldn't be worth running, so I tend to turn it off and trust to my NAT when i'm running Halo. If you have a NAT firewall, you may have to enable port forwarding to let Halo out, but I've never had any problem with it.

Now, once you get on with (well, whichever...) if you're having trouble finding servers, adjust your filter settings. if you're only looking for CTF games, it will not show you King of the Hill or Oddball or any other server playing these games. it will only show you games playing CTF. Also, if you have your ping set too low in the filter and you live in the boonies, you may not see any server. Open the paramaters on the filter as wide as they can go and you should see tons of servers on PC and a fair amount on CE.

A lot of this stuff I'm saying has already been posted in the Guides sticky right here in the Maw. Check there, others have already explained it better than I.

Hope that helped MorphKing.

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  • 08.14.2005 1:30 AM PDT
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There is apparently something that can affect how many servers you see that has nothing to do with filters. I did not change my firewall settings or filter settings but simply reinstalled Halo and fiddled with my TCP/IP settings and my wireless network settings and quintupled the number of servers I could see.

Apparently the built-in Gamespy powered server browser that comes with Halo doesn't actually display ALL servers even if you ask it to. It shows different numbers to different people based on something other than the obvious. I haven't seen any support documents about this on Bungie, Gearbox, or Microsoft's site.

Hamar

  • 08.14.2005 5:51 AM PDT
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IT CUD B UR FIREWALL...... add me to msn thefunkyfragger@hotmail.co.uk ill c if i can help

  • 08.14.2005 6:25 AM PDT

If you still see me Run, Run, Fast as you can Shotgun in hand Towards Your nearest Gingerbread Man.

okay its aol and its 56k

  • 08.14.2005 10:38 AM PDT
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If you still see me Run, Run, Fast as you can Shotgun in hand Towards Your nearest Gingerbread Man.

um i dont have a fire wall and my ping is set to any and gametype is set to any im not using lan and still i have no hits? hope that helps u help me Minus

  • 08.14.2005 10:41 AM PDT
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If you still see me Run, Run, Fast as you can Shotgun in hand Towards Your nearest Gingerbread Man.

okay i deleted gamespy when a person said its filled with spyware awhile ago and im not using a laptop or an eithernet cable im just using a dell desktop with windows xp home edition.does that help?

  • 08.14.2005 10:45 AM PDT
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Deleting gamespy is fine, but it won't get rid of the spyware. Just so you know. Take Minus's advice, run that ad-aware program.

No ethernet cable? Then how the heck are you connected to the internet? USB internet connection?

We need specs. Who provides your internet connection (ISP)? How are you connecting? 56k? Broadband? Satellite?

  • 08.14.2005 10:52 AM PDT

If you still see me Run, Run, Fast as you can Shotgun in hand Towards Your nearest Gingerbread Man.

USB internet connection why and i said 56k and aol 9.0

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  • 08.14.2005 11:47 AM PDT