I'm playing Halo Custom Edition, and every time I load a map, singleplayer and multilayer, it freezes and I have to do control alt delete to end the task (Halo Custom Edition is listed as Not Responding).

I uninstalled the game and re-installed it, but the same problem is still happening. Any help?

Turn on anti-aliasing in your GFX control panel.

(I'm playing on a Windows Vista by the way. Also, about a month ago Custom Edition was working fine).

Uhm, where do I go for the GFX control panel? Is that under my Desktop's control panel?

It's a temporary problem, I had this problem long ago. Give it a few weeks and it'll be fine.

If waiting doesn't work then right click the Halo icon and go to properties>compatibility and over there you tick "Run as Administrator" and compatibility set to Windows XP SP2.

If that doesn't work then install another UI (Main menu interface) Don't forget to backup your old one.

If all that doesn't work then I don't know any more solutions. It's probably a corrupted map or something.

Edited by Tuaha on Aug 22, 2009 at 12:09 AM

If it was a corrupted map, the main menu would not load at all.

I didn't fully read it. Thought you didn't get to the menu at all. This are you able to get to the maps list on Halo PC? Maybe you have to many maps? (if that's even possible)

Nope. When I re-installed it, I only had the original maps and it still happened. Plus, a month ago, I had dozens more and it worked then.

Just recently, I put Halo Custom Edition in Safe Mode and it worked. I quit, and started it up normally and it worked fine. However, the moment I pressed Quit, it froze. My game must have a problem with Loading and ?Unloading? maps, if that makes sense. Though keep in mind my normal Halo still works fine, so it shouldn't have anything to do with my comp.


-aside the point,
For the time it was working after the safe mode, I tried the Halo CMT 2.0 beta map and it was running slow with all the video and sound settings on. I then gave my comp 100 000 megabytes of virtual memory to see if the game would run any faster and it didn't... what the heck!? You'd think a game would run faster if it had 100 gigabytes of extra RAM to spare.

You're running this on a virtual PC? The memory from the vPC must be less than that of the host computer. So if you have a computer with 2 GB RAM, the memory the vPC can have, must be less than 2 GB. If you give it 100 GB more RAM, then your host computer must be an awesome supercomputer.

I don't know what you mean by virtual PC, but under system settings it is possible to give running programs the option to convert actual memory on your hard drive into RAM. Under that option, it says I have over 160 101 MB of available space. Virtual memory is the amount of leeway MB you're giving your computer's RAM to expand upon. When I did what I said before, I increased the virtual memory from the default 4591 to 160000- this is only possible on a Windows Vista, as Windows XP caps the virtual memory off at 5000 (I don't know why, but I think I read an explanation for it when I researched it on Google).

Well, having a lot of memory doesn't really accomplish much if your video card sucks, or your CPU is bad.

First, I don't think increasing your memory helps at all. Halo CE only takes up around 100-200 MB in memory at most. As long as that much RAM is free while running CE, then I don't think you can improve performance by adding some hard drive space into memory.

Second, the whole point of RAM is for fast, temporary access. The hard drive is meant for permanent storage and is much slower. So, using it to increase memory isn't a good idea. If you want more memory, the only good option is to get more RAM.

Third, the amount of available space that it gives you is the total amount of free space on your hard drive. That means you set it to consume the rest of your hard drive for memory.

I did put it back after seeing that it didn't help. I just found it odd that my comp could give perfectly smooth performance to the regular Halo campaign, but slows down dramatically when I do the Halo CMT 2.0 beta, which at best offers 2 new graphic add-ons: shine and (i think) dynamic shadows. Of course, it could be that the models are more intricate, but it shouldn't cause that much difference.