Bungie is pleased to present a new update to Halo PC (and Custom Edition). The patches and dedicated servers are linked below. In a couple days once more servers have come online, the auto-update notice will be displayed in game.
As you might have heard, the Gamespy service that has provided our server list these 11 years is shutting down at the end of the month, and prior versions of the game will no longer be able to browse for internet multiplayer games. Community member btcc22 has valiantly written a new server-browser application for Bungie to host and support in-game via this patch.
This update also contains a number of other small bugfixes, mostly relating to security or compatibility with newer hardware. Big thanks to community members Technut and kornman00, and btcc22 again, for helping to catalog and investigate these problems, making the job of fixing them much easier, and to the community who has helped test the patches.
Bungie believes in creating lasting social experiences, and while we're all enormously excited for the upcoming release of Destiny and hope you'll join us for that ride, we're also gratified by the ongoing enthusiasm for the original Halo, and glad to be able to help keep a good thing going.
Roger Wolfson
Online Services Engineering Lead
Links:
[url=http://halo.bungie.net/images/games/halopc/patch/110/halopc-patch-1.0.10.exe]Halo PC 1.0.10[/url]
[url=http://halo.bungie.net/images/games/halopc/patch/110/haloce-patch-1.0.10.exe]Halo CE 1.0.10[/url]
[url=http://halo.bungie.net/images/games/halopc/patch/110/haloded.exe]Halo PC Dedicated Server 1.0.10[/url]
[url=http://halo.bungie.net/images/games/halopc/patch/110/haloceded.exe]Halo CE Dedicated Server 1.0.10[/url]
Patch notes:
Bumped version to 1.0.10.0621
Moved Gamespy services to use new non-Gamespy server
Fixed a family of index-out-of-bounds bugs which had been exploited to crash clients
Made banlist parsing not case-sensitive
Removed halt on cache file verify error
Removed some verbose debug logging of gamespy connections
Fixed handling of video cards with >= 2GB of memory
Enabled refractive Active Camo on Nvidia cards, which had previously used an alpha fade. (AMD cards already have this)
Updated 2003-era upper bound on the video resolution picker. Use at your own risk; the game is untested at 4800x3600.
Updated chatbox settings to work with newer resolutions
Models node limit updated to 63
Fixed reading sv_ban_penalty from init.txt
Disabled executable_is_valid checksum from strings.dll
Allowed network access in devmode
Fixed parsing of custom map names containing a "."
Edit: The CD Key database is now online too, to assist people in creating meaningful banlists for their dedicated servers.
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Is there any way to confirm that I updated to 1.1? My resolution still only allows for 1600x1200 by default.
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Edited by Rentafence: 5/16/2014 1:04:34 AMI really appreciate you guys supporting this a decade later. Roger you rock!
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Myth, Marathon, PID, and now this. In such dark times of DRM, server shutdowns, and planned obsolescence, Bungie remains a class act. Funny how their continued support of Halo is one of the things that proves they are bigger than it. As long as you keep the torch burning like this I'll always be a fan.
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Let the good snipes roll, motherspartans. I'll see you on the SAPP 4.0 servers.
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Seriously impressed with an update rolling out this late in the game. Kudos to everyone involved.
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You is good people sawnose, don't let anyone tell you you're a crazed loner.
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It says a lot that Halo 2 Vista is shut down, but Halo PC/CE is still alive and going strong! Huzzah!
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I had no idea Kornman was still doing Halo PC stuff, nice to see him active. Thank you Sawnose, I'm glad to hear Halo PC will live on. [quote]Enabled refractive Active Camo on Nvidia cards, which had previously used an alpha fade[/quote] Oh my god yes. 10 years of faded Spartans has come to end.
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sweeeeet
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Thank you sir.
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So much thanks for this. Halo PC lives on!
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Any patch for Universal Binary users?
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Woo! Party time! That's awesome news.
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So much win!
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Thanks guys!
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sawnose rocks.
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Wicked cool, man.
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I love you. <3
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I already have a copy for the original Xbox, but apparently the PC version is where it's at. Any recommendations on where to download for a fair price and no viruses? If not, I'll just buy a disk copy; I like having cases and manuals for all of my games anyway.
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I have an original CD copy with a CD key and everything, but the actual CD itself has been long since damaged. Is there any way I could go about getting a legitimate copy of the game and use my valid CD key?
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Thanks a lot Sawnose! I hope my petition that I started also grabbed your attention, I got ~16.5k signatures to help try and save the server lobby haha. We all appreciate the work you've done for the past 11 years with Halo. Here's the petition link if anybody is interested: https://www.change.org/petitions/steam-adopt-halo-combat-evolved-custom-edition-multiplayer
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Thanks for all your hardwork! Is there any way that you can convince Microsoft to bring the game to Steam?
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My brother and I play halo PC all the time with each other but he has a Mac. Is there any plan for a Mac update? Sorry to sound needy but I'm just a little bit curious. -supersniper-
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Holy **** yeah ! Nice work !
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Woah. Support for a game this old? I am impressed.
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This is amazing. Particularly excited about: Fixed handling of video cards with >= 2GB of memory Enabled refractive Active Camo on Nvidia cards, which had previously used an alpha fade. (AMD cards already have this) Updated 2003-era upper bound on the video resolution picker. Use at your own risk; the game is untested at 4800x3600. There hasn't been an FPS like Halo for a very long time (Titanfall is quite good) Which edition will most play on? PC or CE?