Playing Halo 1 through at the moment (don't laugh) on PC. It was fine until level 5 - Assault on the Control Room. Right at the start of that level, you get dropped off on a platform, and as soon as you walk up to the first door (after killing the first wave of enemies) the game freezes. Sometimes I can get it to carry on by alt-tabbing out and back in a few times, but then one of the pixel shader effects has gone completely wrong (I assume this is what is causing the freeze) and instead of a cool looking black marble surface, just random noise is shown. The effect is used extensively in that level and subsequent levels so I don't want to play on with it looking wrong and maybe freezing again.
I've tried changing nvidia drivers, and reinstalling the game several times, and I've tried every patch version from 1.0 to 1.7. I even tried installing the game under my Vista boot, but had the same problem there too.
Just wondering if anyone else with Halo PC could start a game on this level and see if they get the crash. It should only take 2 minutes to test. If you do please post video card model and driver version. It's probably an issue that's come up quite recently, either introduced by a DirectX update or new video card drivers. I could swap out my 8800 for an X1800 for a week just to finish the game if it turns out to be an nvidia only problem.
Cheers
I've tried changing nvidia drivers, and reinstalling the game several times, and I've tried every patch version from 1.0 to 1.7. I even tried installing the game under my Vista boot, but had the same problem there too.
Just wondering if anyone else with Halo PC could start a game on this level and see if they get the crash. It should only take 2 minutes to test. If you do please post video card model and driver version. It's probably an issue that's come up quite recently, either introduced by a DirectX update or new video card drivers. I could swap out my 8800 for an X1800 for a week just to finish the game if it turns out to be an nvidia only problem.
Cheers
