I want to edit the campagin map "a30", but every time I try to open the a30
senerio it will either exit by itself (rare) or say "Sapian for Halo PC stopped working"
and then closes itself (common). by the way Im using the Halo PC tags extracted with
HEK+ the debug text is below:

10.16.11 19:37:59 sapien pc 01.00.00.0609 ----------------------------------------------
10.16.11 19:37:59 reference function: _write_to_error_file
10.16.11 19:37:59 reference address: 401b13
10.16.11 19:37:59 Couldn't read map file './sapienbeta.map'
10.16.11 19:37:59 CreateDevice succeeded with refresh rate = 0
10.16.11 19:37:59 Sound card doesn't meet minimum hardware requirements. Disabling hardware option.
10.16.11 19:38:00 Increasing sound decompression buffer size to 1048576 bytes
10.16.11 19:38:16 EAX: 0xFFFFFFFE
10.16.11 19:38:16 EBX: 0x00000004
10.16.11 19:38:16 ECX: 0x00A4E300
10.16.11 19:38:16 EDX: 0x00000005
10.16.11 19:38:16 EDI: 0x10A05FFC
10.16.11 19:38:16 ESI: 0x00000004
10.16.11 19:38:16 EBP: 0x00A4E30C
10.16.11 19:38:16 ESP: 0x0018EFCC
10.16.11 19:38:16 EIP: 0x005AB968, 66 8B 04 3E ?????
10.16.11 19:38:16 6F697461 ?????
10.16.11 19:38:16 00000008 ?????
10.16.11 19:38:16 EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION
Edited by Darkforce002 on Oct 16, 2011 at 08:40 PM

You're library is corrupted, i think.
Reinstall HEK, might be wrong, but I beleive that's the cause.
Some of the tags you extracted must be corrupted.

hmm... funny
if I do that, that will be the 3rd time I've tried it.
so I don't think the 3rd time is going to be a charm on this one.
Edited by Darkforce002 on Oct 16, 2011 at 10:50 PM

Run all the HEK programs as admin?

yes all of those programs run as admin., and are put under compat. mode with win xp sp3
(my cpu runs under win 7)

I never needed to run the HEK programs under compatibility mode, and I am using vista.
See if turning off compatibility mode works?

That is a very lovely error. It happens to a lot of campaign missions. U need to start it from scratch ( i think)

That's because Vista is considered to be a "beta" of Win7. Vista doesn't have the many compatability issues with WinXP programs like Win7 does.

ANYways, before I begin my rant on OS', try running compatability mode under WinXP SP2, not SP3. SP2 is considered to be the most stable emulation for running older programs. Plus, I have my HEK running under those settings, and I can run everything fine. Haven't tried compiling maps yet, though.

set Sapian to XP SP2 and as soon as I clicked a30 it instantly said "Sapian for Halo PC stopped working" and then closed itself. and then I tried reripping the tags from a30.map Halo PC file with HEK+ under XP SP2 and then Sapian flipped out (Closed itself) when I opened the newly extracted a30 senerio file.
And this is what debug spit out:


10.18.11 22:18:51 sapien pc 01.00.00.0609 ----------------------------------------------
10.18.11 22:18:51 reference function: _write_to_error_file
10.18.11 22:18:51 reference address: 401b13
10.18.11 22:18:51 Couldn't read map file './sapienbeta.map'
10.18.11 22:18:51 CreateDevice succeeded with refresh rate = 0
10.18.11 22:18:51 Sound card doesn't meet minimum hardware requirements. Disabling hardware option.
10.18.11 22:18:52 Increasing sound decompression buffer size to 1048576 bytes
10.18.11 22:18:52 EAX: 0x00000000
10.18.11 22:18:52 EBX: 0x109BCA01
10.18.11 22:18:52 ECX: 0x00000000
10.18.11 22:18:52 EDX: 0x00000000
10.18.11 22:18:52 EDI: 0x0018EDC8
10.18.11 22:18:52 ESI: 0x00000000
10.18.11 22:18:52 EBP: 0x0018ECA0
10.18.11 22:18:52 ESP: 0x0018EC90
10.18.11 22:18:52 EIP: 0x778E0C32, 83 C4 04 C2 ?????
10.18.11 22:18:52 EXCEPTION halt in \halopc\haloce\source\tag_files\tag_groups.c,#3142: offset>=0 && offset+size<=data->size
Edited by Darkforce002 on Oct 18, 2011 at 11:22 PM

Look dude the problems that you keep having are not from compatibility issues.

There from corrupted tags kk, so you need to figure out what tags are fraged, and get new ones from a different source.
You need a new source for those tags cus obviously the one/ones you'v been using don't work (you could try the tags pack download section here http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?pg=1&sid=33 ).
BTW I REALLY REALLY HATE USING HEK+ For ripping tags as almost always some of them are corrupted.

Unfortunately I don't remember how to figure out which ones are fraged, made somebody here can help you with that.

I myself have not had to worry about such a problem for years, as I have a complete tagset. (thats why I don't remember how to figure out which ones are corrupted LOL anyway)

I would have uploaded it by now but my internet sucks something horrible.

Good Luck & Try not to beat your head on the wall.

Edit: I forgot the base HEK Install DOES NOT!! include the single player tags, So reinstalling it WILL NOT HELP ANY!!.

You'll need to get the single player tags.
Edited by xXThePlague1Xx on Oct 19, 2011 at 02:39 AM

Most of my campaign maps are broken too, but I don't make campaign mods so I don't mind.