I hate my computer

0m3g4Muff1n987 · Post by **0m3g4Muff1n987** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 9:13 am

Alright first of all, whenever I start Halo CE, that first screen that says Halo and then the gearbox software and bungie studios logos in the bottom corners, takes like a minute to go away. What's wrong with that?

Also, after I open sapien, on certain maps I can use the camera to pan around a bit, but after a few seconds the thing freezes and the screen goes black, and the current sound it was playing loops over and over in a glitchy way. WTF!

And finally, whenever I play halo online, lan or internet, I can play safely for a few minutes, but after about 3 minutes the game freezes and does the same thing it does in sapien, forcing me to turn off the computer and restart which takes a painfully long while.

What is wrong? I can't play halo, PC or CE, and I can't map in CE either. This sucks. Anyone know what's wrong? (My computer is nice and fast, so this shouldn't be happening.)

Andrew_b · Post by **Andrew_b** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 10:51 am

i only know the answer to 1. halo ce takes so long because it is loading maps made by other people. maps its not used to loading. and notice it skips the screens that halo pc has just to load (bungie gearbox, then microsoft games) basicly the more maps you have the longer your going to see that

0m3g4Muff1n987 · Post by **0m3g4Muff1n987** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 11:42 am

Ok, thanks, I kind of suspected that. I still need help with the other things.

Assault2K7 · Post by **Assault2K7** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 11:52 am

Specs?

0m3g4Muff1n987 · Post by **0m3g4Muff1n987** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 11:59 am

TOSHIBA Satellite M115-S3094 Laptop
Centrino duo processor @ 1.6GHz (3.2GHz total)
1GB RAM
128MB Intel 945GM gfx card

Is that enough...?
And BTW when I start sapien it says increasing sound buffer or something...

Assault2K7 · Post by **Assault2K7** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 12:06 pm

I'm not sure but I think that's an old card, you might want to upgrade it

The sound buffering problem might be your sound card , might wanna look into that

0m3g4Muff1n987 · Post by **0m3g4Muff1n987** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 12:09 pm

Assault2K7 wrote:I'm not sure but I think that's an old card, you might want to upgrade it

The sound buffering problem might be your sound card , might wanna look into that

That's an extremely new card. Halo even said it was below the requirements when I first got it because it didn't recognize it. It works fine for halo.

And if it is the sound card, which it probably is since it glitches up halo and sapien, then how do I fix the problem?

)John( · Post by **)John(** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 7:20 am

try novideo code? so it skips to game ? :S Just an idea

0m3g4Muff1n987 · Post by **0m3g4Muff1n987** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 9:23 am

)John( wrote:try novideo code? so it skips to game ? :S Just an idea

What? You might be on to something.

)John( · Post by **)John(** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 5:36 pm

right click on the halo or halo CE icon on your desktop (the shortcut)
goto properties
add " -video" with out the "" U NEED THE SPACE

to the end of the Target location ("C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Halo\halo.exe")
so if it was haloit would be
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Halo\halo.exe" -novideo

the target will be different for CE but still just add -novideo

*edit same thing u do with -console
also u can put it in any order if u already have -console
(" -console -novideo) (" -novideo -console)

just for kicks u can add -window to play the game in a windowed screen

Paradox621 · Post by **Paradox621** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 10:09 pm

Make sure that the Windows XP SP2 Firewall isn't trying to block Halo from using your net. Might be the same case for Sapien too.

0m3g4Muff1n987 · Post by **0m3g4Muff1n987** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 12:51 pm

John:
1. Doing what you said will disable the video for halo. How the **** will that help me?
2. It'll only apply to halo, not sapien.

Paradox:
It isn't. Otherwise I wouldn't be able to play online at all. BTW sapien doesn't use the net.

FanTasY · Post by **FanTasY** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 1:14 pm

The only thing I can think of is allow the ports in your firewall, the port number would be the port number in your Halo I.P. address, same thing happened to me and then i tweaked up the ports and then it worked.

0m3g4Muff1n987 · Post by **0m3g4Muff1n987** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 1:18 pm

Dude, the internet works. It just freezes for some reason randomly, sometimes when I play. BTW it happens in campaign and online.

SuperCommando · Post by **SuperCommando** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 4:25 pm

its probaly because its a laptop, (a toshiba laptop to boot) laptops can be funky when playing games, they aren't exactly the best choice, try using sapien and halo on a desktop, it'll run a lot better.

TomClancey · Post by **TomClancey** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 5:15 pm

Well the graphics card is definetly very old (old as in not very good). Almost all Intel chip-sets are horrible.

)John( · Post by **)John(** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 7:20 pm

0m3g4Muff1n987 wrote:John:
1. Doing what you said will disable the video for halo. How the **** will that help me?
2. It'll only apply to halo, not sapien.
doesn't use the net.

Well its the thought that counted right ? lol