Halo Custom Edition not working

[sotoj159]

Ok, I have Windows 7 64 bit, and have installed halo custom edition on it. It installed fine, but when I went to run it, the screen just turned black and the computer froze. The same thing happened to me when I had vista, but I usually run it in window mode, so I just restarted and changed the halo shortcut so it would run in a window (when I ran the game in a window in vista and xp, it worked fine). However, when I ran the game in a window, it would only make it to the title screen (the one that says Halo right before the main menu). Then it minimizes and says "Gathering Exception Data", and then closes. The third time I try to open it, it asks me if I want to run in safe mode, I choose yes. It does run in safemode, however, I can't see the mouse pointer, and some of the menu screens. Also when in safemode, when I join a server online (servers that I know are popular), I'm the only one on the map...every time...:devil:

So, any fixes?

 

[sotoj159]

*Bump*

nobody knows??

ok, i dont know what i did, but now, instead of saying "gathering exception data", now it will not say anything, but when the game starts in a window, the game screen is just black and i can't see anyhing.

 

[sotoj159]

*Bump*

Hellooo...anyone???

 

[valtonray]

run it in compatibility mode

 

[sotoj159]

run it in compatibility mode

i did, but it didn't work.

however, i formatted the hdd because i wanted to install winXP (it would not install on a partition), but i wasn't able to install it for some reason. I re-installed win7, and installed the video driver (took the exact same steps that i took the first time i installed win7). This time, however, win7 seems to be running faster, and halo worked perfectly with graphics on high....for about 3 days....now i have to run it on medium-low settings while i try to fix it somehow...but for the meantime, that's fine.

 

[Frostmourne]

run it in compatibility mode

i did, but it didn't work.

however, i formatted the hdd because i wanted to install winXP (it would not install on a partition), but i wasn't able to install it for some reason. I re-installed win7, and installed the video driver (took the exact same steps that i took the first time i installed win7). This time, however, win7 seems to be running faster, and halo worked perfectly with graphics on high....for about 3 days....now i have to run it on medium-low settings while i try to fix it somehow...but for the meantime, that's fine.

Did you upgrade 7 the first time? Use HWInfo32 in my driver's guide sig to fill in your specs. Update your drivers and DirectX too.

 

[sotoj159]

run it in compatibility mode

i did, but it didn't work.

however, i formatted the hdd because i wanted to install winXP (it would not install on a partition), but i wasn't able to install it for some reason. I re-installed win7, and installed the video driver (took the exact same steps that i took the first time i installed win7). This time, however, win7 seems to be running faster, and halo worked perfectly with graphics on high....for about 3 days....now i have to run it on medium-low settings while i try to fix it somehow...but for the meantime, that's fine.

Did you upgrade 7 the first time? Use HWInfo32 in my driver's guide sig to fill in your specs. Update your drivers and DirectX too.

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Thank You for the reply, but i re-installed windows 7 on my computer, updated everything, basically did the exact same stuff i had done before, but this time, halo works perfectly....don't know why or how, it just does.

Thank you though!

 

[Skipper]

Hi there I have the following issue with Rise of nations gold. When I start the game, after the intro movies I receive the following error massage "gathering exception data" and that's it. I've copied the log info from the event vewer and if someone can help me I will be so grateful. Thank you

Here is the log:
Faulting application name: patriots.exe, version: 3.2.3.2901, time stamp: 0x4068ee06
Faulting module name: dssl.dll, version: 3.2.3.2901, time stamp: 0x4068843f
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00001346
Faulting process id: 0x11cc
Faulting application start time: 0x01cb1df4738e81ad
Faulting application path: D:\Games (x86)\Microsoft Games\Rise of Nations\patriots.exe
Faulting module path: D:\Games (x86)\Microsoft Games\Rise of Nations\Thrones and Patriots\dssl.dll
Report Id: ddff44d4-89e7-11df-9c1d-0026b9035a20