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October 13, 2003 Link to this post
BBC says Halo has problems
There's an article on the BBC News website called 'PC bugs undermine Halo shooter' which laments the problems in Halo PC. Most of the complaints have been heard before (high requirements, weaker weapons), but a couple are new - including one rather surprising one:
But the most serious problem comes with the multi-player option. The computer is prone to crash during gameplay when you change maps, even on a machine using Windows XP. In one case, the crash led to the so-called "blue screen of death", something that simply does not happen with XP.
I'd love to see corroboration of this - I was under the impression that that screen no longer even existed under XP. (For the record, I've never seen Halo crash while changing maps, either.) Thanks to Beats for the heads-up on this one. Update: looks like I haven't been doing my homework. Plenty of folks wrote in to tell me about BSODs in XP (I'm not a huge PC user, so I don't feel so bad about this), but others wrote to tell me that the phenomenon is NOT limited to a small group; there are many messages about BSOD crashes over on the Gearbox Technical forum. Before Halo PC was released, I was completely up-to-date on this forum... but in the last couple of weeks, I've been falling behind. After doing some searches, it seems that the majority of (though by no means ALL) the problems are with people who have ATI 8500/9000/9200 cards; many were able to make them go away by installing the latest Catalyst drivers (and ensuring that OLDER drivers were cleared out), but some were not. (Many problems seem to be tied to the ati3d2ag.dll file - specifically, multiple instances of it.) I haven't run across an official Gearbox response to the problem, but I'd guess they're working hard on it. (Louis Wu 11:00:38 UTC)
