Halo and Dual monitors

[A Meteor]

Hi All,

Has anyone had problems getting Halo to run with dual monitors on an XP system?
I was running one analog monitor. [LCD VGA]  I just put on two new ACER LCD monitors with 1920x1080 resolution and HDMI inputs.
Now Halo won't run.   As soon as I try to start it I get a dialog box that says "Gathering exception data".

I've tried disabling one monitor and that doesn''t help.

Anyone seen this, have any fixes? 

Thanks,

A. Meteor

[xen0n -]

I used dual monitors on my vista system and it worked fine, I dont realy have an awnser
 

[MrMxyzptlk]

Halo's prolly barfin' chunks at the unknown resolution it's being asked to deal with on the new setup. (Both the new size/aspect ratio, AND the extended desktop, all at once.)

Strangely enough, in this case I'm going to suggest UNinstalling Halo and REinstalling it so that it can "start fresh" and maybe better figure out your setup.  (Don't worry, it will keep your profiles... which might keep this from working tho!  So once you've UNinstalled, rename the "Halo" folder in "My Documents\My Games" to something else BEFORE you install. Then after that works, exit Halo and rename it back and try it again to see that it still works.)

BTW: Halo has a hard time with certain aspect ratio screen resolutions, so you might have to try some others as well....

Oh, but first!: If that was me having this problem I'd make the problem happen again like a hundred more times, and each time tell it to "Send results to Microsoft to help diagnose the problem" so you can "vote" on how crappy their OWN SOFTWARE IS! 

[BFM_Kiwi]

Barfin' chunks eh? 

Well Mxy is too technical for me, but I would think you should be able to play on one monitor or the other, not so sure about playing across both at the same time.  The problem I would bet is in the graphics card drivers.  When it says gathering exception data, does it ask if you can send the info to Microsoft?  If so, there is a link there to show you what info is being sent.  In the top right it will usually have the module that failed.   Look to see what it says and if it seems to be a video driver )like nvidiaxx.dll or something).

You could try setting up your display to only one monitor, then the other, and see if it works.  Maybe narrow it down if it's an issue with one monitor.

[MrMxyzptlk]

Um... Are you REALLY expecting/trying to run Halo across more-than-one monitor?!?

'Won't happen/work, period.

(How do you even try to tell it to DO THAT?!?!)

[BFM_Hydra]

You can play on both monitors at the same time but they'll just share the same screen.

It's handier to have one free for browsing etc. anyway, methinks.

[A Meteor]

Thanks Folks,

I'll try changing resolutions.  I've already re-installed and no dice.

I'm not trying to do anything fancy as far as playing on two screens or having a browser upi at the same time.  I just want to be able to play!
Right now I can't!

A. Meteor.

[Haunted]

use 1 screen 

[BFM_LËÕ]

i can paly across 2 screens all i have to do is stretch the halo window but there is no benefit to it all it dose is kill the fps and make a gap in the middle. it takes me from 500+ on a static screen to 14 and lower  if u had some insane amount of graphics power u might get away with it 

[Đstroyr]

Thats what I do.

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You can play on both monitors at the same time but they'll just share the same screen.

It's handier to have one free for browsing etc. anyway, methinks.

[ßlitz]

Oh, but first!: If that was me having this problem I'd make the problem happen again like a hundred more times, and each time tell it to "Send results to Microsoft to help diagnose the problem" so you can "vote" on how crappy their OWN SOFTWARE IS!  

LOL, that's funny!

[BFM_Hydra]

Oh, but first!: If that was me having this problem I'd make the problem happen again like a hundred more times, and each time tell it to "Send results to Microsoft to help diagnose the problem" so you can "vote" on how crappy their OWN SOFTWARE IS!  Sideways ROFL Wink'n'grin'n"

ROFL



PS. I run dual monitor (laptop + 1 external) and Halo works fine. I play in a window though.