Debugging request

[Andrew Hruska]

my friend got it to go about a minute ingame with his Geforce FX 5900U, but then it crashed. He says it ran around 20fps, which isn't too bad for his new P4 1.9ghz

[mr.saraiva]

Originally Posted by Andrew Hruska

my friend got it to go about a minute ingame with his Geforce FX 5900U, but then it crashed. He says it ran around 20fps, which isn't too bad for his new P4 1.9ghz

...giving that it is in early development stages, 20fps is amazing

[netrunner]

How do I get the logs you need? I'm running both XP and 2K boxes and no luck on either one even with the debug dx stuff. Let me know and I'll post the info you need - tkx!

[mzkhadir]

Originally Posted by _SF_

What problem? Did you try using software mode?

Basically it starts to run at 1 or 2 frames per second and then returns back to the emulator screen.

I am attaching my Xeon Log. This happens both in

Specs

P4 1.5
640 Mb Ram
GeForce 5200
30gb + 80gb hard drives
SB Live Value
Network Card + Modem

[kcar181]

Hmm strange I still get the same Same log too

[Arcane@AG]

2_SF_:

Being an owner of a Radeon 9500 Pro, I can confirm, that there are no compatibility problems with ATI cards. Halo runs fine on my system, about 50-55 fps in the menu and around 25 in-game.

Arcane , does it crash ingame or you can keep on playing ?

[Arcane@AG]

The former , menus work fine, though. Guess, I was a little too quick to say, there were NO glitches.

[DC_daNMan]

I am having the same problems as kcar and mr.saraiva with halo. Just a quick check, are you using PAL/NTSC halo?

[Organ_Shifter]

Xeon loads up perfectly on my system with the DX9bDebug files. I started it with Software Rendering enabled using Software Vertex Processing. That was very very slow. So I restarted,let it go off hardware without any software options enabled. I averaged anywhere from 40-50fps in the menus. I restarted once again and set it to run at 800x600 w/Software Vertex Processing turned on only (which made a difference),because I now average 55-65fps in the menus,but it crashes when I try to start a game. I have Halo extracted to a folder on my HD with the same structure as the ISO format I guess. Is there any way to place the actual maps from the extracted folder into the Xeon "UtilityData" folder as cache???.map files and run it that way? Anyhow,it looks fantastic on my system and runs smooth (even with the window maximized).

[Red__XIII]

If you turn on wireframe mode while using software rendering the game will run faster. I was getting 1 frame every 5 seconds without wireframe and 4 fps with wireframe. If you get to the opening video enough will be extracted to play the game in hardware mode.

[DC_daNMan]

you only need to run in software the first time. you can run in D3D now, you have an ati 9800, so it should be nice for you...

[zomby]

Ok, I've installed the DX9 debug runtime and I'm finally able to run Xeon in software mode. (Wich is not available from the general directx distrib.)

Switching between debug and retail versions of Direct3D does not affect software rendering, wich is of course painfully slow. (Somewhat better with wireframe only, but you don't see much. )

When switching over to hardware rendering, the game will not start with retail Direct3D (window open then closes right away) but will work when debug mode is activated. I've included my Xeonlog.txt from the hw/retail run so you can take a lot at where it crashed. If you need any more info, just ask.


System specs:
Intel P4 / 2.40C
1 gb PC333 DDR SDRAM
Radeon 9500 Pro 128 mb (Catalyst 3.6)
Sound Blaster Audigy
Windows XP Pro

[Red__XIII]

Originally Posted by DC_daNMan

you only need to run in software the first time. you can run in D3D now, you have an ati 9800, so it should be nice for you...

I do run it in hardware mode, but you have to start a new game in software mode first for it to unpack the needed files. If you run the game and just get to the menu, that is all you can run in hardware mode. It ran too slow in software mode to get past the menu, so I put it in wireframe mode and it ran fast enough to start the opening video. Which is all you need to be able to play the first part of the game in hardware mode.

[Bizkit]

I had no problem running halo =P
first i followed some peoples instructions I read on this forum and got it going

[kcar181]

Ok this is my log. It starts up and closes.

Loading XBE File...
Loading INI file Halo.ini...
Loading input plugin...
Starting emulation...
CreateDevice(00000000, 00000001, 00000000, 00000040, 0265FF50, 002E35F8)
Created resource from object: Object: 00DE8B40 XB Resource: 014AD3C4 - Data: 03130000, Type: 1
Created resource from object: Object: 02768480 XB Resource: 014AD4F4 - Data: 03260000, Type: 1

Options:
Enable Log
Enable API Logging
Show FrameRate
Show Detailed Stats
Enable Debug Keys
Windowed
640x480
Framerate Limit: 0
Software rendering
Wireframe Mode
Software Vertex Processing


Edit: My specs:

AMD Athlon(TM)Processor 1.3 GHz
NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4800 SE / Driver 4.5.2.3
Creative Audigy XGamer
1024mb SDRAM
Microsoft Windows XP SP1 32bit 1280x1024

That's the only stuff I could think that you'd need.

And could someone tell me how big the whole halo folder is? Maybe I missed some. Thanks.

[pnag]

Got it going! Thanks _SF_. Still had to run software first to get so far with hardware, but am I impressed! The DirectX9.0b debug did the biz.

My specs are

Athlon 2600+ XP (2.083 Ghz)
896 Mb DDR 333
160 Gbs
Pioneer DVD-R A03 (Slow, but grand!)
Nec 1100A DVD+R
GEforce Ti4600 128

If I can do any testing for ya, please let me know. I've access to a modded Xbox, so I can get the ISO images, but I never play consoles, can't handle the controllers - I'm a keyboard and mouse kinda guy. I reckon I'd be a good test case as I'm purely pc oriented Yeah, a plug, I know! Oh, and if you are taking requests for other games, how about "Medal of Honor: Frontline"? Dunno what XDK it uses, but still! The fact that it's console only would really rock to play it on my pc...

[Organ_Shifter]

kcar181,the entire size of the Halo folder on my system is 3.30GB. 117 Files,10 Folders. That's right-click,properties info.

[kcar181]

Ok thx alot. That might be my problem. Must have misplaced files. 22files 2 folders 1.32gb haha Thanks

[Organ_Shifter]

No problem.