Crashes on Halo Games

[devguy]

I was wondering if anyone could help me out. Around x-mas time, I built the pc in my specs and had it up and running perfectly using xp x64. I had both Halo and Halo 2 working flawlessly. However, I tried moving up to Vista (as well as Vista SP1 on another occasion).

Needless to say, Vista hates my southbridge (probably the northbridge as well) and so I decided to come back to ol' reliable. I have the latest drivers installed and Crysis plays great (and 3dMark06 gives me around 9600). Unfortunately, Halo crashes 2 seconds after I load a map in single player, but I can ctrl+alt+delete out. In multiplayer, the game hard locks the system and I have to reboot. I just tried the demo as well and the same thing happens. Oddly enough, I get the error in the attatched picture when I open either Halo or Halo Trial.

As for Halo 2, I installed it using the good old method around x-mas time. No good, it hards locks the system while loading a level as well. For interest, I tried using the most up to date loaders (certainly makes things easier to install), but the same issue arises. Halo 2 doesn't give me any error pop-ups like Halo 1.

Any ideas? Remember, these games were all working fine on the same system around x-mas. Tried using both Catalyst 8.3 and 8.4 and same issues arise.

[devguy]

Anyone?

[Solaris17]

that stuff happened to me all the time i started a thread about it here too turns out the game is just crazy buggy and really sensative to OC's i can prime for 72 hours but halo will crash after 5min.


but it looks to me...i get that alot when my pagefile is disabled halo wants a page file because it doesnt bealive in system ram over 128mb i hit continue any way and it usually works fine.

[PVTCaboose1337]

Seems that your computer is not detecting any ram for some reason... if you could get it to detect ram, then halo would not crash. i personally did not have this RAM problem, but did have it with the CPU, it says my old CPU could not run Halo. There is a work around. I will have to find it.

[devguy]

I appreciate it. I have a 2048mb fixed sized page file (even though I have 4GB RAM- some stupid programs require it regardless of amount of RAM in PC). Just tried underclocking CPU and RAM and still no good.

[CrAsHnBuRnXp]

The game ran fine for me with quad core and 2GB. Got 4GB and it said i didnt have enough memory. Go figure.

[devguy]

Is there a way to make a program think I have 2GB RAM instead of 4GB? Bear in mind this game (and Halo 2) worked fine in XP x64 SP2 during Xmas with the same hardware.

Edit: I just pulled 2GB RAM from my PC and tried it again. I didn't get any errors this time, but the game still froze in the exact same place...