Any scenario I try to open with sapien, including the test/tutorial.scenario file makes Sapien crash. It opens the file, and the window shows up, then it closes. Any tips? I'm using Vista to operate and I've tried switching the window to XP mode without special headbars and changing to only one processer operating the program.

copy/paste the last entry in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Halo Custom Edition/debug.txt
here

05.23.10 17:18:52 sapien pc 01.00.00.0609 ----------------------------------------------
05.23.10 17:18:52 reference function: _write_to_error_file
05.23.10 17:18:52 reference address: 401b13
05.23.10 17:18:52 Couldn't read map file './sapienbeta.map'
05.23.10 17:18:52 CreateDevice succeeded with refresh rate = 0
05.23.10 17:18:52 Sound card doesn't meet minimum hardware requirements. Disabling hardware option.
05.23.10 17:18:52 Increasing sound decompression buffer size to 1048576 bytes
05.23.10 17:18:53 the meter definition ui\hud\cyborg shield does not specify a stencil bitmap group.
05.23.10 17:18:53 the meter definition ui\hud\cyborg body does not specify a stencil bitmap group.
05.23.10 17:18:53 game globals didn't specify multiplayer information
05.23.10 17:18:53 main_new_map() failed.

Get a new globals.globals file.

check your globals file your cyborg tags seem to have something missing

where can I get that?

rip globals/globals from dangercanyon or bloodgulch, and check overwrite.

now I'm getting this

05.24.10 15:50:10 failed to load shader_transparent_chicago_extended tag 'levels\test\gephyrophobia\shaders\geph_energy_rope'
05.24.10 15:50:10 failed to load scenario_structure_bsp tag 'levels\test\gephyrophobia\gephyrophobia'
05.24.10 15:50:10 failed to load structure bsp 'levels\test\gephyrophobia\gephyrophobia'
It's like I have a pathing problem or something
Edited by coralian on May 24, 2010 at 05:53 PM
Scratch that I ripped the ghydrophobia mpa it's all good now son.
Edited by coralian on May 24, 2010 at 05:57 PM

how do you fix this problem then?

08.16.11 22:09:01 sapien pc 01.00.00.0609 ----------------------------------------------
08.16.11 22:09:01 reference function: _write_to_error_file
08.16.11 22:09:01 reference address: 401b13
08.16.11 22:09:01 Couldn't read map file './sapienbeta.map'
08.16.11 22:09:02 CreateDevice succeeded with refresh rate = 0
08.16.11 22:09:02 Sound card doesn't meet minimum hardware requirements. Disabling hardware option.
08.16.11 22:09:03 Increasing sound decompression buffer size to 1048576 bytes
08.16.11 22:09:05 file_read('tags\levels\test\gephyrophobia\gephyrophobia.bitmap') error 0x00000026 'Reached the end of the file. '
08.16.11 22:09:05 couldn't read #1088512 bytes from offset #172 in local tag 'tags\levels\test\gephyrophobia\gephyrophobia.bitmap'
08.16.11 22:09:05 file_read('tags\levels\test\gephyrophobia\gephyrophobia.bitmap') error 0x00000026 'Reached the end of the file. '
08.16.11 22:09:05 couldn't read #1280 bytes from offset #1088684 in local tag 'tags\levels\test\gephyrophobia\gephyrophobia.bitmap'
08.16.11 22:09:05 couldn't read elements for bitmap_group_sequence_block block
08.16.11 22:09:05 file_read('tags\levels\test\gephyrophobia\gephyrophobia.bitmap') error 0x00000026 'Reached the end of the file. '
08.16.11 22:09:05 couldn't read #960 bytes from offset #1088684 in local tag 'tags\levels\test\gephyrophobia\gephyrophobia.bitmap'
08.16.11 22:09:05 couldn't read elements for bitmap_data_block block
08.16.11 22:09:05 failed to load bitmap tag 'levels\test\gephyrophobia\gephyrophobia'
08.16.11 22:09:05 failed to load scenario_structure_bsp tag 'levels\test\gephyrophobia\gephyrophobia'
08.16.11 22:09:05 failed to load structure bsp 'levels\test\gephyrophobia\gephyrophobia'

One helluva bump much?

Anyway, get the latest version of HEK+, delete the entire folder that contains the gephyrophobia scenario (not just the .bitmap file, just to be safe), and using HEK+ rip the gephyrophobia scenario from the map gephyrophobia.
Oh, uh remember to turn off "overwrite existing tags" and turn on "rip recursively" in the options menu in HEK+, and run HEK+ and all HEK tools as admin so that you don't get a compatibility files problem later on.
Edited by sargejohnson on Aug 17, 2011 at 10:38 AM