Hi Conor Sherry,
I'm glad that's finally resolved! Halo is my favorite game as well,
and I would definetly start fidgiting if I wasn't able to play a game.
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Conor Sherry Wrote:
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| Jimmy,
|
| Great news everything is great. Halo works fine I updated the game and I no
| longer have the problems with the direct 3d. Thanks alot for your help and
| patience, the reinstallation of windows worked like a charm.
|
| Have a good one,
|
| Conor Sherry
|
| "Conor Sherry" wrote:
|
|| Jimmy,
||
|| I installed the earliest ati catalyst driver there was which was 5.1.
|| However it didn't work and I am pretty sure that this would be a driver
|| problem and I would probably have to get a much earlier driver but they don't
|| archive them from what I saw and 5.1 was the earliest. I used the game in
|| offline mode without it patched and it didn't work thats why I did patch it
|| hoping it would be fixed. I am really giving up on this game and its
|| dissapointing. Are there any other options or should I just give up, becuase
|| even if I do find a driver earlier enough which I think is what I need I am
|| not going to use that driver just so I can play Halo and sacrifice it for all
|| my other games.
||
|| "Jimmy S." wrote:
||
||| Hi Conor Sherry,
|||
||| Taking a step back for a moment..
|||
||| Unless you actually roll back your video drivers and test HALO again,
||| we cannot be certain that the Video Drivers are at fault. If you would
||| like to (understandably) explore another option before taking this step,
||| I would reinstall HALO and test it offline without installing the updates.
|||
||| --
||| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
||| Jimmy S.
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
|||
||| Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site:
http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
||| MS Games Help and Support Center:
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||| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
||| _________________________________________________________
|||
|||
||| Conor Sherry Wrote:
||| =================
|||| Jimmy,
||||
|||| I have games that are really demanding of my system and that run better on
|||| the later drivers. For example doom 3 runs better on the later drivers
|||| because they have better support for Open GL. Why dousn't microsoft release a
|||| patch for this driver problem? When splinter cell came out it worked but a
|||| few months later it didn't work with the latest drivers from Nvidia so they
|||| patched it and it was compatiable. So do you think microsoft will do that or
|||| do you have any other suggestions?
||||
|||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
||||
||||| Hi Conor Sherry,
|||||
||||| You might use Windows XP driver rollback feature to see if indeed the older
||||| drivers are capable of allowing you to launch HALO, at which point you could
||||| test your other games as well.
|||||
||||| What are Omega Drivers?
|||||
||||| Modified ATI and nVidia graphics cards drivers. There are two versions of each -
||||| Performance, and Quality. Performance version is faster and looks slightly better
||||| than reference. Quality version is slightly slower, but the visuals are better
||||| (i.e. anisotropic filtering). Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_Drivers
|||||
||||| Omega Drivers have a new home:
http://www.omegadrivers.net
|||||
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||||| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
||||| Jimmy S.
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
|||||
||||| Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site:
http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
||||| MS Games Help and Support Center:
http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
||||| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
||||| _________________________________________________________
|||||
|||||
||||| Conor Sherry Wrote:
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|||||| Jimmy,
||||||
|||||| Thanks for writing. I did everything you said and it still crashes before I
|||||| start a new game. The thing is though I have had this game installed on this
|||||| same PC before and it worked but I uninstalled it. So it had worked in the
|||||| past but now it isn't. The only thing I didn't try is using and older driver.
|||||| However if I use an older driver then that will be a detriment to my other
|||||| games. Also what are omega drivers? So what should I do?
||||||
|||||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
||||||
||||||| Hi Conor Sherry,
|||||||
||||||| Even thought you've posted that your drivers are up to date, please..
||||||| Double check your Video and Chipset drivers and your DirectX.
|||||||
||||||| Updating video card drivers can solve most gaming issues. Here's some
||||||| simple abc's to always keep in mind. a. Shut off download accelerators,
||||||| firewalls and antivirus programs when downloading or installing updates;
||||||| b. Check for game patches:
www.avault.com/pcrl/patches_list.asp?letter=a
||||||| c. Make sure you meet the game's minimum video and system requirements.
|||||||
||||||| Before you update your drivers, I recommend that you update DirectX
||||||| from:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/directx/default.aspx
|||||||
||||||| Here are the steps I recommend you use to update your driver:
|||||||
||||||| 1. To identify the make and model of your card, right click your
||||||| Desktop, choose Properties / Settings / Advanced / Adapter.
|||||||
||||||| 2. Download the latest video driver for your card online, using
|||||||
http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits/Video.html#drivers
||||||| to find the website to download from. I also have advanced
||||||| video driver and direct X troubleshooting steps on that page.
|||||||
||||||| 3. Save the .exe driver (or extract the zip file) to a folder
||||||| in My Documents named after the driver version number.
|||||||
||||||| 4. Restart the computer in Safe Mode by pressing the F8 key
||||||| about once every second as it's rebooting to pick Safe Mode.
|||||||
||||||| 5. Click Start / (settings) Control Panel / System / Hardware
||||||| Device Manager / expand +Display Adapters / right click on
||||||| the adapter, pick "Uninstall", and click No if asked to reboot.
|||||||
||||||| 6. Use Control Panel / Add-Remove programs to uninstall the
||||||| previous driver (exe)software which may have been installed.
|||||||
||||||| 7. Restart the computer in Safe Mode by pressing the F8 key
||||||| about once every second as it's rebooting to pick Safe Mode.
|||||||
||||||| 8. If the driver is NOT a (.exe)program file, GO TO step 11.
|||||||
||||||| 9. When Windows prompts you to install the video adapter, click
||||||| "Cancel" and Double click the driver program to begin installation.
||||||| * Even if not prompted, doubleclick the driver and install it.
|||||||
||||||| 10. After you reboot, go to Control Panel / Display / Settings and
||||||| choose 32 bit Color Quality, and 800x600 or higher Resolution.
||||||| That's it! Scroll down to the Troubleshooter if you have problems.
|||||||
||||||| 11. When Windows prompts you to install the video adapter, click
||||||| "Install from a list or specific location", click the "Browse" button,
||||||| browse to the My documents folder where you saved the driver,
||||||| and finally click on one of the driver files to begin installation.
|||||||
||||||| ** If you are not prompted, or if the driver was updated automatically:
||||||| Click Start / (settings) Control Panel / System / Hardware Device Manager
||||||| expand +Display Adapters / right click on the adapter, pick "Update Driver"
||||||| to start the Update Wizard, choose the "Install from a list..." option:
||||||| Browse to My Documents\ folder with the driver in it
||||||| Click OK and click Next to begin the update.
|||||||
||||||| 12. After you reboot, go to Control Panel / Display / Settings and
||||||| choose 32 bit Color Quality, and 800x600 or higher Resolution.
||||||| That's it! Try the advice in the Troubleshooter if you have problems.
|||||||
||||||| TROUBLESHOOTING:
|||||||
||||||| Test your drivers using DXDiag: Click Start / Run / type: DXDIAG
||||||| Click the "Test" buttons in the Display, Sound, Music & Network Tabs;
||||||| If any of the Display options are Disabled and you cannot Enable them,
||||||| your most likely solution would be to update your Chipset Drivers as per
||||||| my website:
http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits/Video.html#v11
|||||||
||||||| Your program might not support dual monitors, or "dual head" video cards
||||||| You can disable the extra video output in your display properties control
||||||| panel. Click Start>Settings>Control Panel>Display>Settings>Advanced.
|||||||
||||||| Along with your Video card, Sound Cards, Motherboard Chipsets,
||||||| and Video Monitors may also require updated drivers. Even your
||||||| motherboard's BIOS may need to be updated for compatibility with
||||||| your Video card. These steps are listed at:
http://NibblesNbitsVideo.tk
|||||||
||||||| Perhaps the old Video drivers did not completely uninstall. If that's the
||||||| case, use these utility to completely uninstall the drivers and go to step
||||||| 7:
||||||| nvidia:
http://content.guru3d.com/index.php?page=detonatorrip&menu=0
||||||| or for all cards including nvidia use:
http://www.driverheaven.net/cleaner/
|||||||
||||||| The latest video drivers sometime don't work with a particular game.
||||||| (Check the Video suggestions in the readme.txt file in your game folder/CD)
||||||| If there's no suggestions, try an older (WHQL) driver, and/or if you still
||||||| experience problems try a Beta driver, or even an Omega driver instead:
|||||||
||||||| BETA Drivers:
http://download.guru3d.com/
||||||| OMEGA Drivers:
http://www.omegacorner.com/
|||||||
||||||| There you have it, if you have any questions feel free to post them!
|||||||
||||||| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
||||||| Jimmy S.
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
|||||||
||||||| Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site:
http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
||||||| MS Games Help and Support Center:
http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
||||||| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
||||||| _________________________________________________________
|||||||
||||||| Conor Sherry Wrote:
||||||| =================
|||||||| My Halo is version 1.07 the latest patch. When click to start a new game it
|||||||| comes to the difficulty menu and I choose one and it crashes. It then gathers
|||||||| the exception data and I got sent to the error report site and told me to
|||||||| update my game so I did to 1.07 and it dousn't work. My system far exceeds
|||||||| the system requirements, and all my drivers are up to date. What is wrong?
