Halo 1 & 2 for PC
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Subject: What the heck happened to Halo PC??

Posted by: Ryukage
What? Play a game? FOR FUN???
This concept of fun confuses and infuriates me!

I was a constant player of Halo PC online. Bungie requires a manual update.
I get it, and guess what?

NOONE PLAYS ANYMORE.
This has upset me by just a bit, because this is where I usually got my enertainment.
Can someone tell me:
1. If this can be fixed, how
2. WHY noone plays PC anymore
3.What the stupid update was really for

I am going nuts over this.
Help.
Thanks, ~Shadowlink

  • 11.04.2005 7:06 PM PDT
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did this happen when Halo 2 came out or when? if it did then thats you answer. i have started messing around with CE sence ive made me an xbox controller to work on my pc. but CE is nothing conpared to H2. I thought CE was the best game ever till H2 came out, man it rocks. check it out

  • 11.04.2005 7:14 PM PDT
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Reinstall halo, something messes up from time to time and causes your server list to underpopulate.

  • 11.04.2005 7:27 PM PDT
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Because bungie doesnt care.... they just dont :(. i dont think there will be any more updates

  • 11.04.2005 8:16 PM PDT
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That #3 is the truest of them all. They keep updating Halo PC for people who are too stupid to leave the game alone, and who make mods that guess what? CAUSE GLITCHES!!! Gearbox keeps making patches that dont address the game's problem (really bad lag and terrible internet coding). Instead they update things that only ever happened to one person who probably didnt by a legal or legitimate copy of the game anyway.

  • 11.04.2005 9:13 PM PDT
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Halo Iowa is right. Bungie.net doesn't care. They're too busy with Halo 2 and Xbox. But at least there's a group for Halo PC players.

  • 11.04.2005 10:10 PM PDT
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Halo combat evolved isnt unpopular but if the server list is looking empty then refresh it,I do that on Halo CE when it looks like nobodies on it;and yeah we really need patches 2 try and sort lag issues and handle hackers/aimbotters etc.

  • 11.05.2005 1:15 AM PDT

Posted by: Ryukage
What? Play a game? FOR FUN???
This concept of fun confuses and infuriates me!

Well, no, the lack of players happened about 2-3 days after the update was released. And I have tried to reinstall, it didnt work. and i am quite angry about this still. I play Halo 2, but since I have a 56K Dial Up connection, XBox live wouldnt really work that well....
I smite Bungie with my +8 Hammer Of Smiting (Copyright Shadowlink 2004)

Does anyone have any idea on whats happening, or am I just kind of screwed out of Halo PC Online?

  • 11.05.2005 11:22 PM PDT
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The problem is in one of the files in the my games\halo folder I do not know witch one i tryed to restore the folder after reinstall but the problem came back.

So I started over.

  • 11.06.2005 5:10 AM PDT
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1)Check Filters
2)Uninstall/Reinstall
3)Check for Harmful Files
4)Is Halo finally taking Halo Custom Edition's toll? OMG.

  • 11.06.2005 7:54 AM PDT

Posted by: Ryukage
What? Play a game? FOR FUN???
This concept of fun confuses and infuriates me!

Hmm... there lies the problem! its CE thats drawing people away! Since there isint a Halo 2 for the PC yet(or ever, by the way it sounds), that must be the only other reason.
Getting off track for just a moment, where would I get CE? And is it free?<----(Most important question)

  • 11.06.2005 6:49 PM PDT
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Posted by: ConMan577
Hmm... there lies the problem! its CE thats drawing people away! Since there isint a Halo 2 for the PC yet(or ever, by the way it sounds), that must be the only other reason.
Getting off track for just a moment, where would I get CE? And is it free?<----(Most important question)

trust me; that's not the problem. halo PC usualy has over 1,000 players on at any time (I.E. midnight). must of the time, there are still over 2,000 players. if you cannot find a decent game among 2,000 players.... that's just sad

  • 11.06.2005 6:57 PM PDT
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Yeah, if you take out TKers and other idiots, that takes out at least 1/4 of the group. The majority of the games have either 0 or 1 people, removing another 1/4 - 1/2. If you are trying to play king or oddball, there aren't that many servers. There are many types of slayer, such as sniper, heavy weps, etc. that you need to search through. CTF can be fun, but it isn't when there are TKers or your team is running around in circles, not working together at all. If you factor everything in, there aren't all that many games for you to play.

  • 11.07.2005 10:22 PM PDT
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i went on halo pc the other day and there were 1900 players. took about 2 seconds to find a good game. dont know what everyone is complaining about.

  • 11.08.2005 11:16 PM PDT

Posted by: Ryukage
What? Play a game? FOR FUN???
This concept of fun confuses and infuriates me!

no stupids! NO servers show up online except for one or two total. and at the max playing its generally about 10-14 people playing. I may just uninstal and reinstall the whole damn game. but take the save games i have.

  • 11.10.2005 2:08 PM PDT
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I said the problem is one of the files in the

"C:\Documents and Settings\?\My Documents\My Games\Halo" folder.

{This folder is where your profile,check points,and other settings are stored}

I Dont know witch one is corutpted

1. It happend to me and I did a reinstall and saved settings but it did not fix the problem.
2. Then I saved the folder to desktop did a compleate uninstall and re install got the update and it worked fine.
3. I copyed the new folder to a new folder on desktop and then replaced the old one and the problem was back.
4. replaced the new one back and it was fixed again.

I don't know what file is corupted but i just had to start campain all over again from scratch
it's was good practice.

if it works reply hear.

[Edited on 11/12/2005]

  • 11.11.2005 6:57 AM PDT
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Wow...wow....the Battlefield 2 Demo has more players than Halo..
And, CE is free, the best and fastest servers are: http://www.fileshack.com (Sign-up required) and http://h2ce.epgservers.com (No Sign-Up Required) Fileshack is faster though.

  • 11.11.2005 7:54 AM PDT
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Yes I know. Every day there is less and less people playing on the PC.
Why? I blame Bungie for not making a Halo 2 for the PC. I mean you can play with a lot more people pn your PC, and the graphics are ten times better than any system on the market. I'm a really hardcore PC gamer ( name is ~HR~Fire), I'm really great at Halo and I hate to see the PC world be destroyed by a bunch of punky brats that think that just because they own a system they are to good for the PC. Half of the players I know who play for the X-Box teams don't even last a minute on the PC.
Last word, all the people that ditch PC for a system can blow it!!

  • 11.12.2005 5:35 PM PDT
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Halo PC had 2500+ people on tonight, more than three pages of 10+ players on servers.

Hey, look at Battlefield Vietnam. Only 500 people, and you're complaining! People move on to newer games after a while. you can't expect a 5 year old game to last forever and bask in popularity for eternity.

  • 11.12.2005 10:03 PM PDT
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could it be that maybe you have a router, and its built in firewall is blocking it ???
I have the same prob bro. I feel your pain :(

  • 12.04.2005 9:00 PM PDT
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This thread is a month old.

  • 12.05.2005 8:36 AM PDT
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whenever i play halo i never have a problem of finding a decent server. games on pc's look about 54935435907435908439058405843 times better than on a game console. i play halo quite a lot its about the only online game that i like playing. i so rarely lag on halo pc so i dont know what people are complaining about. and also tkers get banned after 3 or 4 betrayals. so honestly i cant find many bad things about halo for pc, nope none at all

  • 12.05.2005 11:35 AM PDT
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Posted by: ConMan577
Hmm... there lies the problem! its CE thats drawing people away!


thats good halo ce is better

  • 12.05.2005 12:40 PM PDT
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Posted by: ConMan577
no stupids! NO servers show up online except for one or two total. and at the max playing its generally about 10-14 people playing. I may just uninstal and reinstall the whole damn game. but take the save games i have.

ok, if you want to play online, you will NEED to reinstall and re-patch the game. sometimes, when you patch the game, it runs into a random error where the game will refuse to properly sync with the gamespy server. that's why only 2 games show up.
if you reinstall halo, as long as you DO NOT CHECK THE BOX that says remove gametypes and data, then your gametypes will remain, as well as your profiles, and the levels you have beaten on thoes profiles. however, it is true that if you saved a game on the last leg of the level The Maw, it will from the reinstall forward, revert you to the begining of the level. however, since installing a patch does this too, i cannot see why you would have a problem with it.

  • 12.05.2005 5:34 PM PDT