OK, so this is something weird that I have not been able to figure out over 3 days of scouring for the solution.
In my firefight map, if I "die", respawn, and look at the center of the map, it will sometimes exception.... BUT only if enemies are present and if it is after wave 1.
If I see the enemies up close, it's fine. It's just at a distance that it goes all screwy...

Also, in Sapien I will randomly get this:

12.11.10 20:27:44  sapien pc 01.00.00.0609 ----------------------------------------------
12.11.10 20:27:44  reference function: _write_to_error_file
12.11.10 20:27:44  reference address: 401b13
12.11.10 20:27:44  Couldn't read map file './sapienbeta.map'
12.11.10 20:27:45  CreateDevice succeeded with refresh rate = 0
12.11.10 20:27:45  Sound card doesn't meet minimum hardware requirements.  Disabling hardware option.
12.11.10 20:27:46  Increasing sound decompression buffer size to 1048576 bytes
12.11.10 20:27:56  ### the biped 'characters\drone\drone' has no 'head' marker
12.11.10 20:27:56  ### the biped 'characters\drone\drone' has no 'body' marker
12.11.10 20:27:57  crosshair item 0 for halo3\hud\weapon interfaces\master\master rounds references an invalid sequence
12.11.10 20:28:05  the model 'halo3\weapons\ma5c\assault_rifle' and the collision model 'halo3\weapons\ma5c\ma5c' don't match (node counts don't match)
12.11.10 20:28:05  the object 'halo3\weapons\ma5c\[asp] b_ma5c' will not be collidable
12.11.10 20:28:06  crosshair item 1 for halo3\hud\weapon interfaces\sniper rifle\sniper rifle references an invalid sequence
12.11.10 20:28:06  crosshair item 1 for halo3\hud\weapon interfaces\sniper rifle\sniper rifle references an invalid sequence
12.11.10 20:28:17  the meter definition ui\hud\cyborg shield does not specify a stencil bitmap group.
12.11.10 20:28:17  the meter definition ui\hud\cyborg body does not specify a stencil bitmap group.
12.11.10 20:28:21  WARNING: 3 clusters in structure_bsp levels\firefight\firefight have no background sound or sound environment.
12.11.10 20:28:21  DirectInput: 'Acquire (keyboard)' returned (DIERR_OTHERAPPHASPRIO#-2147024891)
12.11.10 20:28:32  local player 0, weapon (0x0), deleted unexpectedly

So... I'm at the end of my rope. Any ideas?

i always get that in sapien. Just make it so that u don't look at the entire map and instead somehow set the offset of a cam to the dead player

Anyone else that can help?
I really need to solve this, or Firefight-Descent will not be able to come out.... and that would suck....

What r u using. E.g Vista
Edited by Head Noob on Dec 12, 2010 at 04:55 AM

Windows 7. 32 bit. Installed on a MacBook Pro system using these specs:

I have windows 7 64-bit. If u where creating firefight decent before ur change to windows 7 it is dead. Or fix the things it mentioned by exporting into gmax. Or it is an admin problem. Windows 7 if ur the admistrator u dont need to run anything as admin. I dont. But thats all i can help with. The player deleted is the problem

Or could it be that ar your using. I dunno but its saying something about nodes. Maybe your Halo CE is corrupt cos it was exceptioning the other day when we were on xfire and u were playing a map (gee, i can't remember which one )

Yeah, Head Noob's map was exceptioning constantly....
Maybe I'll send someone a copy of my map and have them rigorously test to see if they exception?

That someone would be me, Mooseguy.
Oh and by exceptioning constantly, u mean u were dieing every two seconds right ?
Edited by Muscl3r on Dec 12, 2010 at 05:48 AM

Lol, yeah...
And each time I did, it would exception on me.

Re-enactment: (with no swear words btw)

Mooseguy: uh oh
Muscl3r: what?
Mooseguy: crap
Mooseguy: wtf???
[user has stopped playing Halo Custom Edition]
Muscl3r: Again? Geez
Edited by Muscl3r on Dec 12, 2010 at 05:59 AM

Yeah, multiply that by about 5 or 6 and then I gave up.

And went and played halo2. And i found myself sitting there for 20 mins waiting for you to say something

How do u get an exception when u die.

it must be the game saving player stats but mooseguy has died so many times that the game constantly overloads everytime he dies. Thats my theory anyway :p

LOL

As I said, it could just be my computer exceptioning all the time.... I don't know why it would be my computer but it could be.
So yeah, I'll need to send a version of my firefight to get exception-tested. If it is just my computer, I'm going to hate my life.

It could do it on my new computer as well but i havnt moved everything over yet too lazy.

i also need a map exception tested once i add in navs and hud messages...which could take a few years

A map exception test. I just run around randomly chucking gnades and going places where i shouldnt etc.

Well, I'll see if I can't get someone here to test it, then I'll post back if anything went good or bad.
Please post after me in here so I can post.

so that you can post back

I used to have this error and I think it's something to do with the sniper reticle.
Whenever I looked at an enemy with the sniper I exceptioned.

I wish that were the case...
But it happens with any weapon, at any random given time.

Send to me!!!
And i always get something in cmd saying about the asp sniper reticule and stuff like drones have no head or body marker but it doesn't matter. Perhaps its the tags your using

I just randomly exceptioned while playing firefight-fissurefall-beta...
It is DEFINITELY my computer.
That.
Sucks.

I'm sure you've already fixed these but here's how i fixed these issues.




12.11.10 20:28:05 the model 'halo3\weapons\ma5c\assault_rifle' and the collision model 'halo3\weapons\ma5c\ma5c' don't match (node counts don't match)
12.11.10 20:28:05 the object 'halo3\weapons\ma5c\[asp] b_ma5c' will not be collidable
^^Make the weapon tag no longer reference this collision model.

12.11.10 20:28:17 the meter definition ui\hud\cyborg shield does not specify a stencil bitmap group.
12.11.10 20:28:17 the meter definition ui\hud\cyborg body does not specify a stencil bitmap group.

^^ Go into your globals in the player info area, and make the specified tags reference the stencile bitmaps in the tags\ui\hud\bitmaps directory.

OK, I'll do those, thanks.

But since I have discovered that the exceptioning problem is due to my computer itself, does anyone know how I can fix this problem? (I mean the random exceptioning on many different maps)

Well, that might be because you have halo installed on windows 7 which is itself installed on a mac, so you're basically trying to run halo ce on a mac osx.

I know how to fix!!!
Deathless player cheat !!!

@ D4rfnader:
It could be the case. It could also be the fact that I am running discrete and new graphics with 4gb RAM squeezed into a 32bit operating system....

@Muscl3r:
My map has its foundations in deathless player. The map would not run without it activated. You never "die" in the map, per-se, you are fooled into thinking you died, and lives are subtracted.

Wait, your problem, specifically, is hce crashing when you look at enemies from a distance? 0_o

Or is it simply just random exceptioning that can occur at all times? BtW, Muscl3r just got owned.
Edited by Polamee on Dec 14, 2010 at 05:25 AM

I have found that most custom singleplayer maps I play, including mine, will exception at random times, but ESPECIALLY if you die (or "die").

um...no
not even close
not at all

what i meant was the deathless cheat as in the one used in f/fight portent. But only for testing. U'd have to send to someone else to test out the lives system

Dude. He isn't asking anyone to test his lives system. What he's saying is that cheat_deathless_player is an integral part of the scripts of his map, because it regulates the number of player lives. This in itself is an ingenious system which I never actually thought of