Sapien crash

Patrickh · Post by **Patrickh** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 3:27 pm

When I open Sapien and load ANY scenario, including tutorial, and freshly downloaded ones, sapien loads the scenario, the sound comes on and level shows up for about 1 second, then closes. Here's the debug.txt:

07.17.08 16:00:24 sapien pc 01.00.00.0609 ----------------------------------------------
07.17.08 16:00:24 reference function: _write_to_error_file
07.17.08 16:00:24 reference address: 401b13
07.17.08 16:00:24 Couldn't read map file './sapienbeta.map'
07.17.08 16:00:24 CreateDevice succeeded with refresh rate = 0
07.17.08 16:00:24 Sound card doesn't meet minimum hardware requirements. Disabling hardware option.
07.17.08 16:00:24 Increasing sound decompression buffer size to 1048576 bytes
07.17.08 16:00:56 local player 0, weapon (0x0), deleted unexpectedly
07.17.08 16:00:58 EAX: 0x0012ED60
07.17.08 16:00:58 EBX: 0x00029D01
07.17.08 16:00:58 ECX: 0x00000002
07.17.08 16:00:58 EDX: 0x0000003C
07.17.08 16:00:58 EDI: 0x0012F2E0
07.17.08 16:00:58 ESI: 0x00000000
07.17.08 16:00:58 EBP: 0x0012F1B8
07.17.08 16:00:58 ESP: 0x0012F1A8
07.17.08 16:00:58 EIP: 0x772E0F34, C3 8D A4 24 ?????
07.17.08 16:00:58 EXCEPTION halt in \halopc\haloce\source\cseries\profile.c,#442: parent_timesection->self_msec >= child_timesection->elapsed_msec

I tried uninstalling then redownloading and installing HEK to no avail. I can't seem to figure this out, post if you have any ideas. Thanks in advance.

Cryticfarm · Post by **Cryticfarm** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 3:33 pm

Make it run on only one core?

Patrickh · Post by **Patrickh** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 3:37 pm

How would I do that?

Btcc22 · Post by **Btcc22** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 4:07 pm

1) Open Sapien as normal, but don't load any .scenario files yet.
2) Bring Task Manager up.
3) Right click the sapien.exe task, and select "Set Affinity".
4) Make sure only one box is ticked under the CPU list.
5) Use Sapien as normal.

=)

Patrickh · Post by **Patrickh** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 4:19 pm

lame, when i click set affinity, it says access is denied

Vista can be annoying with the whole permissions BS... takes like 10 security checks to rename a folder. Are you sure you're sure you're sure you want to rename this folder?

Do you know a way around that?
Also, I just opened tutorial, and it stayed open for like 5-10 seconds before crashing... if that means anything.

Cryticfarm · Post by **Cryticfarm** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 4:37 pm

Patrickh wrote:lame, when i click set affinity, it says access is denied
Vista can be annoying with the whole permissions BS... takes like 10 security checks to rename a folder. Are you sure you're sure you're sure you want to rename this folder?
Do you know a way around that?
Also, I just opened tutorial, and it stayed open for like 5-10 seconds before crashing... if that means anything.

Right click the folder and go to properties. Then click security and press the edit button. Click users and check the full control box below.

super_man916 · Post by **super_man916** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 5:29 pm

same happens to me. cept im on a windows set up and when i launch sapien and load a .scenario tag sapien crashes too even when i set the affinity. basically the thing stops responding and then crashes. could it be my crappy computer?

Andrew_b · Post by **Andrew_b** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 5:32 pm

Pat is on a windows computer too.

super_man916 · Post by **super_man916** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 5:37 pm

Patrickh wrote:Vista can be annoying.

O Really?

Andrew_b · Post by **Andrew_b** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 5:37 pm

Windows (R) Vista (TM)

super_man916 · Post by **super_man916** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 5:39 pm

oh well anyone know how to solve this?

Cryticfarm · Post by **Cryticfarm** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 8:22 pm

Vista works fine for sapien for me. I just run as admin and it works.

Patrickh · Post by **Patrickh** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 12:08 pm

well ive gotten it working, heres how:

run sapien as administrator
go into windows\system32 and run task manager as admin
now set the affinity to only 1 core (it will give you an error if you dont run task manager as admin)
continue using sapien as normal

thanks for the help guys, i really appreciate it

super_man916 · Post by **super_man916** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 12:11 pm

bah i dont know my administrator password. thnx anyways though.