Forum: Troubleshooting

When I try to install halo combat evolved on my pc it says... "Halo setup encountered a disk error while writing to the file C:\program files\microsoft games\halo\maps\bitmaps.map. This is the first time I ever installed Halo any ideas what the problem is?

yeah... i know i'm using the trial and when i'm in a multiplayer internet game, even sometimes in campaign i can't move around, shoot or pick up (etc, i'm pretty much a rock and the other guys have sledge hammers) and lately i've noticed i CAN turn, but this weird icon in the bottom right corner...

Ok im a milti player freak so i bought 2 halo discs. me and a friend went to connect and they worked. the next time i went to connect, it would not saying the client is older then this server. taking it means the ip addresses are the same. (On it happened to be). i uninstalled both discs and...

HEEELLLPPP!! My machine info or what the halo pop-up says is that 2700Mhz, 512MB, 64m Intel 865g (0x2572) Although i do not know much about the value knowledge of fixing problems on computers i have a few hypothesis that might help you out: - I had a my motherboard replaced with a ASRock...

I recently obtained a copy of Halo PC. It runs through the beginning animations, but as soon as it hits the menu, the screen goes black. I can still hear the navigation sounds when I move the arrows/enter/escape keys, and can hear the in-game audio if I navigate blindly into a game. But the...

Hey Everyone I have A Problem...A Few Months ago I had purchased Halo: Combat Evolved For the PC, and it ran all fine and stuff. Then months later It won't allow me to play. Like When I start it up, and I choose to play online with Someone It will Close My screen and have a box Pop up Saying...

I have had Halo on my System for a wile now, before the game worked perfectly not the slightest glitch was possible to see (or happen) however, recently I have decided to play the game again and I have a big problem... :huh: whenever I try to start an online game or campaign level the game...

I just installed Halo PC after the longest time of not having it on my somewhat new machine. I changed graphic cards recently, going from an Nvidia 6800 to a 7950GT. I've updated my drivers and such. Now, when I go and boot up Halo, Everything seems to be as if has been sped up about 2x than the...

Hey ppl, im new here and im desperate to fix HALO for PC:(. I install the game and when i start it I get this message dat i uploaded as an image. I heard people talking bout refresh rates or sumthing, can any1 help PLEASE?

:flaming::flaming:My school network wont let me play online, y not??:flaming::flaming:

I just recently purchased Halo and I've been having a hell of time trying to install it. I finally broke down and decided to join this forum and ask around. Here's the issue: First the installation would freeze at 80% with the error message that the file sounds.map was in use or I was out of...

Heres me specs Compaq Presario v3000 (gag) Windows XP Home edition 5.1, Build 2600 Bios: PheonixBIOS 4.0 Release 6.1 CPU: AMD Turion (tm) 64x2, MMX, 3DNow (2 CPUs), ~1.6GHz Ram: 958MB Ram (damn rambis) DX: DirectX 9.0C (4.09.0000.0904) GFX card: NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150 -> 256MB Driver:...

WHen i start halo and play online when someone joins it wouldn't say anything or when i kill sum1 it doesnt say anything, can anyone help?

Hello, I am having a rather odd issue. HALO seems to be running at half speed, it runs smoothly it’s just the game is in slow motion. I have tried to uninstall and reinstall HALO but that hasn’t helped, nor has updating HALO. Any help in solving this issue will be much appreciated. System specs:...

I start the game and it goes through intro's fine as soon as i get to the main screen my screen starts to go all funny and then turns white any idea's ive uninstalled reinstalled ive changed color settings to here is my system specs Pentium 4 CPU 3.20GHz 2.00GB of RAM Radeon 9550 vid card

Well I am Not New to Halo: Combat Evolved, but other than my problem with the sounds.map theory, (As Seen On My Other Thread) I need A good Video Card Like I wanna get a better Graphics Card, and stuff... GRAPHIC CARD INFORMATION: Name:NVIDIA GeForce4 MX Integrated GPU Manufacturer:NVIDIA...

Hi I am a newbie on this forum but not a new Halo player. I have just now updated my old Onboard graphics too an ATI 9250 so I can get halo for the computer (I have Halo on Xbox and Halo 2). For some reason the graphics in the game jump as if in heavy lag but Online my Ping is never above 100. In...

I have Halo1 demo for pc going nutts!! This week i Uninstalled, Reinstalled and tried other locations, killed the profiles and savegames. The problem is that i cant see what i say or others, when i press "T" the grey bar apears but not the letters i press after, i cant see who kills who! It's as if...

hi. basically i could play halo without the disk at first. i then downloaded halo 1.103 updater file, so i could play other people over the internet, with them using a pc. it now asks me for the cd everytime load it up, when i want to play it without!! ive tried deleting it by dragging the...

Right, first, I would like to just put out on the table, that even though I am having the same recurring menu problem as everyone else, It happened to me in a very different way. Yes, I did use the search button, and tried everything I found on this website, no luck as of yet. To begin, I am...

First I will provide my system specs CPU: AMD Sempron 3100+ 1.3 Ghz HDD: WD 250 GB SATA Video Card: nVidia GeForce4 MX 4000 128MB OS: Windows XP Pro SP2 Direct X: Version 9.xx C DVD RW: NEC ND-3540A I just installed the original Halo. When I start the game is moves through the intro...

i clicked on my halo icon and it leads me to the screen where it says "halo" then it cuts off! is there anyway i can stop this from happening and i can finally play halo?

I tried to install halo for PC on my friends computer and thge first time we got it to work, but the second time it told us that there was a file missing/corrupted. We did what microsoft told us to do and it didn't work. The file was shader/vsh.bin. He has all the right stuff to make it work so it...

Hey, I've just installed Halo onto my new intel imac and I't won't get past the first page. It asks me to create a new profile, I type a name in, and it gives mew the response that "new user profile cannot be created". Anyone know how to fix this? I tried the "documents" folder to see if I...