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Subject: Exception Data When I Start Halo
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After an infection deletion with Spyware Doctor, i try to start Halo, but then it minimizes it and then it says "Gathering Exception Data", does any body know what this problem is.

  • 10.29.2006 11:57 AM PDT
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Maw

Corrupt file. Reistall Halo.

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  • 10.29.2006 11:57 AM PDT
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I did that already

  • 10.29.2006 12:07 PM PDT
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Reformat your computer. It is extreme, but I did have a problem where I uninstalled Halo because it wouldn't run anymore. When I tried to install it, it never got past 5% and I'd then recieve an unknown error. My computer was long overdue for a reformat anyways. Halo worked afterwards.

  • 10.29.2006 12:15 PM PDT
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Make sure you tell the guy what reformatting is....

  • 10.29.2006 12:28 PM PDT
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Posted by: Agamemnon582bc
Reformat your computer. It is extreme, but I did have a problem where I uninstalled Halo because it wouldn't run anymore. When I tried to install it, it never got past 5% and I'd then recieve an unknown error. My computer was long overdue for a reformat anyways. Halo worked afterwards.


Thats an extreme step. Its like returning your refrigerator because a screw fell off of the handle.

However, try uninstalling your spyware software and run a registry cleaner.

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  • 10.29.2006 12:34 PM PDT
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Can you give a link to a really good and safe drive cleaner

EDIT: and free, :)

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  • 10.29.2006 12:39 PM PDT
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Posted by: DivX
Posted by: Agamemnon582bc
Reformat your computer. It is extreme, but I did have a problem where I uninstalled Halo because it wouldn't run anymore. When I tried to install it, it never got past 5% and I'd then recieve an unknown error. My computer was long overdue for a reformat anyways. Halo worked afterwards.


Thats an extreme step. Its like returning your refrigerator because a screw fell off of the handle.

However, try uninstalling your spyware software and run a registry cleaner.

No, it is not. Halo PC is fully bug-infested with errors that usually happen for no reason. The real example you should've used is this:

"It's like buying a refridgerator and finding a nuclear core inside with cockroaches crawling over a PBnJ that's growing arms and legs and then deciding to take a bite inside; what, do you expect to not encounter any problems?"

Extreme or not, I was at Gearbox's tech help forum doing everything they suggested, up until reformatting the computer was the last option, which did indeed fix it.

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  • 10.29.2006 12:45 PM PDT
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See that's the problem with Halo. There are many problems for Halo, the inevitable lag, the inevitable cheaters, and the under-exaggerated minimum system specs. But compared to this problem, those problems are nothing to me: most Halo's only install ONCE. Once you have a corrupt file or experience heavy damage while playing, you're forced to reinstall. Now this may seem simple despite the fact that you have to waste 20-30 min. more of your time reinstalling something, but it's not. 90% of the time, SOMETHING will interrupt the download, SOMETHING will cause the darn installation to stop. One of my closest friends, (also a lieutenant in my clan) had a corrupt file with his text in Halo. We had no idea about the quick and easy mxmlenu.exe solution, so he resorted to reinstalling Halo rather than play the game without text communication. But guess what happens?

He tried reinstalling 24 times, YES 24 TIMES. I went over to his house, deleted ALL traces of Halo, but it still didn't work, and always stopped the installation at around 84-85%. It finally worked in the 25th time, out of sheer luck and frustration.

WTH is wrong with Halo? I'm a big Halo fan, don't get me wrong, but how does Halo have this much bugs and errors in the netcode? I understand all games have some bad sides here and there, but Halo is ridiculously way over-chart. I mean what kind of game only allows ONE installation 90% of the time? Answer that Bungie and Gearbox.

  • 10.29.2006 2:09 PM PDT
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It's obvious not much effort was spent with Halo PC; I mean, the tools that were promised before its release didn't even happen until a year later (see: Halo Custom Edition). The only thing that makes up for it is indeed HCE, and even then there aren't that many good maps. Speaking of, I'm going to be undertaking a project dealing with the good ones, capturing them into wallpapers and writing a little review on them. Even then that doesn't mean much, mainly because there are, what, at an average about 100 players on HCE? Which is preposturous, considering halomaps.org always has at least ten people downloading something off of Dennis' site, yet the top-played HCE maps are regular Halo maps.

I did an experiment back on September 14th; check this out:

(9/14/06 11PM -5GMT Eastern)

52 servers

18 servers play Bungie maps

9 servers play vehicle maps (Extinction, Hugeass, Coldsnap, Hotzone, etc.)

4 servers aren’t hosted by English speakers

3 servers hosting unreleased maps

18/52 servers have players in them

Only two servers are full

Top ten servers’ maps:

1. Coldsnap
2. Bloodgulch
3. Coldsnap
4. Dangercanyon
5. Frost
6. Sidewinder
7. Bloodgulch
8. Yoyorast_Island
9. Icetrack
10. Crap

4/10 maps in top ten are Bungie maps
3/10 maps in top ten are vehicle maps
All are CTF

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v519/Agamemnon582bc/Random% 20Stuff/HCETruth.jpg

So, in the end, the top ten maps and there are actually only two decent maps that fall under the effort and balance category. Crap is indeed crap and Icetrack is a vehicle map (with little effort might I add).


Hopefully H2V does not turn out with the same fate.

  • 10.29.2006 3:00 PM PDT
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when I finally release my map that I've been working on, I hope that it will be in the "top 10" for at least a week... Its not a "vehicle" map, but it does have a bunch of vehicles.

  • 10.29.2006 3:15 PM PDT
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I've got a big word doc concept thingy for a map. Just as soon as I teach myself how to use the H2 HEK, it'll pwn. Imagine Blood Gulch + Infinity + Ice Fields + New Mombasa Classic + rebalanced weapons + new vehicles (very few on the map, though) - open spaces. That's right, big map, small spaces. LOTS of small spaces.

  • 10.29.2006 3:41 PM PDT
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I know what the problem is...
You have an either oversized of full map
ur a modder

  • 10.29.2006 6:03 PM PDT
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English and not in stanza form, please.

  • 10.29.2006 8:07 PM PDT
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eh. Just wait untill the error goes away. I did, confusing how that works....

You could just revert your hard drive, go to start, programs, accessories, system tools, system restore. Bring it back to before you did the scan.

  • 10.29.2006 10:07 PM PDT