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  • Subject: Halo 2 Vista Problem Finding Servers
Subject: Halo 2 Vista Problem Finding Servers

lol.

So I just got Halo 2 Vista for Christmas yesterday. Been fun to revisit Halo 2, was playing it all day yesterday.

But then, when I came on today to play some Halo 2 with my friend, neither of us could join each others' game, saying that the "server timed out," or something to that effect. I also cannot find any game servers when I browse for games. On the LIVE main menu, all of the statistics say "not available."

The weird thing is that the game worked perfectly fine for me yesterday. I looked online for a solution, found another thread somewhere else with this problem. People suggested minimizing the game while on the LIVE main menue for ten minutes, saying it should work.

Anyone know if this will work, or have another solution? Anyone know why it is doing this?

By the way, I am using Windows 7. Also, last night, after I was done playing Halo 2 for the day, we set up an XBL "family account" which includes up to four gamertags, all of which are linked under a main GT, which is mine, in this case. Could this be related to the problem?

  • 12.26.2010 1:34 PM PDT
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Did your buddy use your CD Key? I'm thinking that might have something to do with it. I don't know.

  • 12.26.2010 2:03 PM PDT

lol.

Nope, none of that. And I only just got it yesterday, and it worked then.

  • 12.26.2010 3:16 PM PDT

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Maybe becuase people aren't on the servers....

I normally see 20-30 servers and many are 0/16...

Halo 2 needs to get more population... :(

  • 12.26.2010 3:57 PM PDT

lol.


Posted by: spartain ken 15
Maybe becuase people aren't on the servers....

I normally see 20-30 servers and many are 0/16...

Halo 2 needs to get more population... :(

I agree, not many people play, but my friend was having no trouble connecting and playing. I couldn't even launch a custom game with just him, neither of us could join the other's game.

  • 12.26.2010 4:35 PM PDT

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

It's the fact that h2v sucks, so the server list does too. Get halo PC, where the list works 99.9999999999999999999999 percent of the time.

  • 12.26.2010 6:34 PM PDT
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Yes, I am a hypocrite, and I'm sorry. I really do mean well, but I'm not running on all cylinders.

Everytime someone buys a copy of Halo 2 Vista, a puppy dies.

I have this problem. Game works for a few days, then no servers. I phoned Microsoft support dozens of times. There is no fix. You can only re-install the game so many times before the product key stops working. Lose-lose.

Image your HD and slap on a new copy of your OS and programs every 2 days... that is actually what someone at GFWL suggested.

You got ripped off, sorry.

  • 12.26.2010 8:13 PM PDT

lol.


Posted by: JacobGRocks
It's the fact that h2v sucks, so the server list does too. Get halo PC, where the list works 99.9999999999999999999999 percent of the time.

I have Halo PC, actually, but I'd rather play Halo 2.

I had this problem for the longest time in that one as well... I forgot what the problem was, though.

Posted by: n357
I have this problem. Game works for a few days, then no servers. I phoned Microsoft support dozens of times. There is no fix. You can only re-install the game so many times before the product key stops working. Lose-lose.

Image your HD and slap on a new copy of your OS and programs every 2 days... that is actually what someone at GFWL suggested.

You got ripped off, sorry.

The CD Key will stop working if I keep re-installing? Oh dear...

What did you mean in your last paragraph, exactly?

  • 12.27.2010 7:50 PM PDT

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BUNGIE AND MICROSOFT FAILS HALO 2 VISTA.

Everytime someone buys a copy of Halo 2 Vista, a puppy dies.

Could you post pictures of your problem?

Also what n357 means, is he was revoked from his rights of ownership of Halo 2 Vista.

  • 12.28.2010 4:27 AM PDT

lol.


Posted by: Shock120
Could you post pictures of your problem?

Unfortunately, I cannot at this moments as I am in Yosemite for vacation and Halo 2 was installed on my desktop, not laptop.

I'll try and describe my problem in more detail. When I boot up the game, I can sign in to LIVE fine, can view my friends list and everything, communicate with people fine.

When I click on the LIVE menu, however, the problems start. At the LIVE main menu, there's a large box at the bottom which display stats, like total players and such (I don't recall exactly what they are, but there are four total, I think). Instead of displaying the stats, however, it just says (for example)"Total Players: Not Available," with "Not Available" shown for all four stats.

If I search for a quick match or custom game, within a few seconds I get a message saying something along the lines of "the search could not be completed because Matchmaking timed out." If I select "browse games," it displays the "searching" message on the server list, and after five to ten seconds, the "refresh" button becomes clickable, and it still says "searching" in the server list. No servers ever become visible.

If I create a custom game, or my friend creates one, and either of us invites the other, the game will sit trying to load the map for a few minutes, then display a message saying something like "the server has timed out because this party is no longer available," or something to that effect.

This is all quite irritating as I had zero problems the day before. The only variable which has changed that I can think of is that my XBL account, which I used for H2V, became the host account for an "XBL Family Account," for two of my brothers. Why this would cause these problems, I cannot fathom, but it is the only thing which has changed between the two times I tried playing.


Also what n357 means, is he was revoked from his rights of ownership of Halo 2 Vista.

No, I understood that part, but I didn't quite understand what he meant in the paragraph starting, "imagine your HD[...]."

  • 12.28.2010 7:13 PM PDT


Posted by: Lizzard 8

No, I understood that part, but I didn't quite understand what he meant in the paragraph starting, "imagine your HD[...]."


He is referring to a absolutely ridiculous and impractical solution that was given to him over the phone from MS support. It is also an example of how MS (also Bungie) have disowned H2V.

Does that help?

  • 12.29.2010 3:41 PM PDT

My Youtube - Halo 2 Online Co-op
BUNGIE AND MICROSOFT FAILS HALO 2 VISTA.

Everytime someone buys a copy of Halo 2 Vista, a puppy dies.

Posted by: Lizzard 8
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You're talking about the Game browser issue, where you can't connect to it straight away, this problem has existed since the release of this game, and will never be fixed.

So, you have to wait for those stats to show, and that will tell you, you can connect to the game browser and to other people on H2V.

  • 12.29.2010 4:08 PM PDT
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Yes, I am a hypocrite, and I'm sorry. I really do mean well, but I'm not running on all cylinders.

Everytime someone buys a copy of Halo 2 Vista, a puppy dies.

Posted by: Lizzard 8
What did you mean in your last paragraph, exactly?

The GFWL rep suggested something like Norton Ghost (I just use GNU+Linux "dd" command) to make a carbon copy of the entire Windows hard drive partition. The result would be the same as an "ISO" image of a CD/DVD. If for some reason the system has to be wiped, that image can be written back to the hard disk. A lot of wasted time to compensate for a bad copy protection scheme.

  • 12.30.2010 8:47 AM PDT

lol.

I see... thanks for the help, guys. I have tried waiting for the game to sync up with LIVE, though, and it didn't seem to work. I'll keep trying.

  • 12.31.2010 11:30 PM PDT