Ok, you may have remembered my previous thread regarding single player maps not loading. Well it seems to go deeper than that - Certain maps I don't have in my maps folder will show up in the map list (e.g. Infinity, Timberland) and they load successfully, but any custom multiplayer OR single player maps will not load, nor will custom UIs. I've set the permissions for all users to allow full control of the whole Halo Custom Edition folder, subfolders and files inclusive, but still no dice. How is Halo reading and loading maps I don't even have in my maps directory, and could this be the solution to playing SP maps? Where ARE those phantom maps being stored, and could I put custom maps there and thus make Halo read and load them?

Could this be the ultimate time killer in my IT class?

BTW, the computer I've installed it on is Windows XP SP2 (or 3, I've yet to check), so giving me Windows Vista/7 folder structures won't really help.
Edited by Bottletopman on May 28, 2013 at 03:10 AM

All the stock maps always stay in the UI map selection, but when you remove them, they only get greyed out.
A new UI isn't going to show up on the... UI map selection. A UI is loaded as soon as the game menu shows up...

Whoops, I meant once I put a custom ui.map into the maps folder, nothing changed - it was still the same stock UI of Custom Edition.

Check the VirtualStore folder that I mentioned in your last thread.

C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\<Mirrors install path from here on>

Does it matter if it's a network account? (I.e. Halo CE is in the local C: drive, while my account I'm logged into is on a network drive marked H:)

Check the 'Roaming' folder as well as the 'Local' one to be sure. If your user profile is under H:, yes, check it.
Edited by Btcc22 on May 28, 2013 at 06:29 AM

I'm on Windows XP, so there's no Users folder as far as I know, or it's been removed, because when I type in C:/Users/ and hit enter, it just says the directory isn't found...H:/ drive also turns up nothing - no local or roaming folder, and doing a hidden folder search yields no results either...

Correct. the User folder was introduced in vista when the security model changed. I am guessing that the program is not installed where you think it is. Right click on the Icon you use to run the game and look at the properties for the target field. Your maps folder should be located under that directory.

You nailed it in the head. I didn't look at the destination directory properly - I forgot the Microsoft Games folder because I had copy pasted the game to the Program Files, but had forgot to make a Microsoft Games folder, thanks a lot!