Halo: CE Help Getting Started With Hek!

[jackrabbit72380 9]

hay I figured i'd start a topic to help sort out the hek for you I know being new to using hek has a lot of issues and errors, wile I can offer some advice and support I don't know everything. and if you have a problum will try and help i have about 10+ years experience with the hek but even with 10+ years thare are still things I don't know and you will probly get better support over at halomaps.org,

 

its inportent to unlock the fetures of hek by unchecking read only on all your files via the propertys of the folder's stating with "Microsoft games" also with your "Tags" & "maps" folders if you are using hek plus.

 

if you have questions ask away!

[misterbanshee 51]

Im trying to take h3 sandtrap map from ce and add more cool h3 things to it lol if i get it working i hope u guys will like it

[jackrabbit72380 9]

sounds cool do you alredy have the scenario loading?

[misterbanshee 51]

yea ive generated a scenario and I redownloaded hek and put in new plug ins and added em to plug in folder

[WaeV 38]

Now that many / most people have switched to Windows 7 over XP, how do we deal with compatibility issues?  I attempted to learn HEK once, but compatibility issues with Win7 frustrated me. Iirc, Sapien refused to display graphics correctly.

 

If that sounds like a one-off weird issue, I could try installing again and seeing how that goes. I'm curious what the general case is though.

[leor 1]

Now that many / most people have switched to Windows 7 over XP, how do we deal with compatibility issues?  I attempted to learn HEK once, but compatibility issues with Win7 frustrated me. Iirc, Sapien refused to display graphics correctly.

 

If that sounds like a one-off weird issue, I could try installing again and seeing how that goes. I'm curious what the general case is though.

arent you in jail?

[jackrabbit72380 9]

Now that many / most people have switched to Windows 7 over XP, how do we deal with compatibility issues?  I attempted to learn HEK once, but compatibility issues with Win7 frustrated me. Iirc, Sapien refused to display graphics correctly.

 

If that sounds like a one-off weird issue, I could try installing again and seeing how that goes. I'm curious what the general case is though.

Sounds more like a GFX card issue to me does your sys meat the requirements for HEK? You could try running in compatibility mode for xpsp3 but its not necessary. there is no compatibility problums with windows 7 or 8. 

 

I'm currently running HEK under Windows 8 with no problems.

 

I'm not rely sure what you mean when you say Sapien refused to display graphics correctly.

 

sapien does not display content like the game does. for instance by default it does not even render bump maps. until you open console~ and type object_display blablabla

[WaeV 38]

arent you in jail?

I believe you're thinking of weev.

 

 

Sounds more like a GFX card issue to me does your sys meat the requirements for HEK? You could try running in compatibility mode for xpsp3 but its not necessary. there is no compatibility problums with windows 7 or 8. 

 

I'm currently running HEK under Windows 8 with no problems.

 

I'm not rely sure what you mean when you say Sapien refused to display graphics correctly.

 

sapien does not display content like the game does. for instance by default it does not even render bump maps. until you open console~ and type object_display blablabla

HEK came out almost a decade ago so I'm sure my system meets the minimum requirements, but it could be a one-off incompatibility with my Nvidia 8800 GTS. I know Halo was optimized for ATI cards.  Good to know it works well with Windows 7/8 on other systems, though.

 

I don't remember exactly what my troubles were at the time. I think either the entire video area was solid black, solid white, or Sapien always crashed when I tried to run it.  I know that Sapien has trouble with multiple core processors, so I was setting my affinity to just one core. That might have solved the crashing issue, but the video still wouldn't display at all.

 

I could give it another go. I should have some new PC parts in a month or so. Same graphics card though, so perhaps I'll still have issues.

[0xdeafcafe 226]

I believe you're thinking of weev.

lost it.

[jackrabbit72380 9]

sound like you just need to update your direct 3d.dll

[TakeruL 2]

sound like you just need to update your direct 3d.dll

Dat necropost