Halo 1 & 2 for PC
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Subject: eugh... will someone help me with something.??
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Whenever i try to open Halo...a stupid error message that says:

A problem has occured intalizing DirectDraw. Hardware acceleration may be disabled, please run DXDIAG.

please help me with this. it won't let me open Halo. email me at omgitisgir@aim.com

thank you

[Edited on 2/16/2006]

  • 02.16.2006 3:30 PM PDT
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Posted by: Anton P Nym
who says you have to be an ace to have fun?

Posted by: TUI_Obi_Wan
Stupid parents let their stupid children play games that are rated M when they should be playing Big Birds Spelling Adventures

Posted by: Kira Onime
Also the AR is actually good in CQB now and no longer a glorified baseball bat.

What are your system specs?
Specifically, what graphics card/chip do you have?

  • 02.16.2006 3:45 PM PDT
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Are sure it's not a problem with DirectX? If not, you may need a better graphics card.


If you have a store bought computer its probally got a cheap card on the motherboard. Upgrade NOW>>>>

  • 02.16.2006 3:47 PM PDT
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I know what happened to you... exact thing happened to me ...

You must have a powerful good PC and the main thing is is that you have a good graphics card, and you need to download a patch for Halo to be compatible with good graphics cards. If there is a help button when the error message comes up, click on that and you should have a download page.

  • 02.16.2006 4:33 PM PDT

"I pledge to punch all switches, to never shoot where I could use grenades, to admit the existence of no level except Total Carnage, to never use caps lock as my "run" key, and to never, ever, leave a single BoB alive."

2B || !2B - Why don't you look Inside the Machine?

Try a re-install if anything does not work.

  • 02.16.2006 5:03 PM PDT
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I assume this isn't the demo. contact microsoft support. i had some issues with halo at the beginning and they were Excellent; totally fixed the problem.

  • 02.16.2006 5:55 PM PDT