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Subject: Please help!

You guys have probably had this a hundred times before, so hopefully you can help me out.
My copy of Halo 2 hasn't been working properly on my 360; I put the disc in and the game starts up like normal, I can choose a profile but when I try to play campaign it won't load, It plays the opening cutscene but won't load the gameplay at the start of 'The Armory', the screen just says 'LOADING 0%'. Also, when I try to play multiplayer, after the countdown it says 'waiting for players...' for about 15 min before the map loads. It's so annoying not being able to play H2.

If anyone has any idea why the campaign wouldn't be loading and what I can do please say so, cheers.

  • 11.28.2010 1:17 PM PDT

Clean the whole surface of the disk with soap.

Check to see how much usable memory you have left in the 360 HDD. If it's close to filling up then delete non-essential saves or downloads or whole games.

I have a laser cleaning disk. It has a little brush on it and cleans off any dust on your DVD laser.

I think you can still clear the HDD cache memory. Halo 2 likes to load a lot of the game to your HDD. Maybe when you first popped in H2 it did not load properly and it's in the cache memory.

I'm just guessing here and my last statement is a wild guess.

  • 11.28.2010 2:22 PM PDT

This is the average H2 Fanboy.
Xfire: JacobGRocks.
50 in H2/H3? Great, but you still fail at this.

It's an odd issue with my 360 too. I play it on my xbox 1 when I do.

  • 11.28.2010 2:41 PM PDT


Posted by: Grumpy1
Clean the whole surface of the disk with soap.

Check to see how much usable memory you have left in the 360 HDD. If it's close to filling up then delete non-essential saves or downloads or whole games.

I have a laser cleaning disk. It has a little brush on it and cleans off any dust on your DVD laser.

I think you can still clear the HDD cache memory. Halo 2 likes to load a lot of the game to your HDD. Maybe when you first popped in H2 it did not load properly and it's in the cache memory.

I'm just guessing here and my last statement is a wild guess.

hey, thanks for replying,
In answer to your suggestions, I've never heard of cleaning your disc with soap?? but I have tried various other cleaning methods and the disc doesn't seem to be dirty or damaged(nothing serious anyway). I still have 128GB left so I don't think it has anything to do with space. I don't think its the DVD laser since the Xbox (Slim) is fairly new (Halo 2 wasn't working on my old 360 either) and I've cleared the cache memory several times now to no effect.

One day the campaign was working, the next day it wasn't. I'm not sure if this means anything but I haven't been able to load the campaign since the day Halo 2's online ended, I played my last match online and the next day nothing was loading (I thought that not being able to sign in anymore had something to do with it).

  • 11.28.2010 2:44 PM PDT


Posted by: JacobGRocks
It's an odd issue with my 360 too. I play it on my xbox 1 when I do.

So you don't know what caused it?
I would play it on my Xbox 1 but I sold that when I got a 360.

  • 11.28.2010 2:47 PM PDT


Posted by: JacobGRocks
It's an odd issue with my 360 too. I play it on my xbox 1 when I do.
Good 'ol xbox 1. If I play H2 on my 360 it gets the 'screen shadows' and anything I'm filming gets trashed.

I've had my disk since day one and I've played the hell out of it. Massive time doing tricks and such in Campaign and when I've had loading problems, no matter if I just cleaned it, I clean it again. I'm such a fanatic that I only clean it using soap and one thumb, in a very tight circular pattern and I make sure I absolutely cover the entire surface. Then I rense for a good while and dry it like it's a holy object.

  • 11.28.2010 2:56 PM PDT