- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
You can join your own DS.
However, if you are trying to join your DS from the same machine that is running the DS (this is very bad performancewise, btw), you will run into a problem where the DS is listening for incoming connections on the same port that the client is trying to use to connect. Thus, there is a conflict of interest. You need to read up on the command line switches for Halo, as I don't personally know the one used to change the ports that Halo listens/connects on. I think it's something like "-port xxxx" where xxxx=the new port number for the Halo client to use. In any case, I'm sure you could find other websites with solutions to this problem by using Google. From what I've seen on other msgboards, its a fairly common problem for new Halo DS admins. ;)