Exeption! – Halo Crashes After 30 Seconds of Play

Name: Darmin Hadzic

I play Halo:combat evolved on my pc. I have more than twice the requirements needed to play this game. However, recently, I have not been able to get the game to run for more than 30 seconds, due to a window that says Exeption! and its contents saying gathering exeption data. this window is followed by an error report, asking me to send their report to microsoft.   I have bypassed this problem by quickly going to the multiplayer function, and playing there, but that leads to the stop error IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. this problem seems to be from my pc, and not the game, since this problem didnt happen when I bought this game.

This problem is getting more and more frequent, and it all starts on that Exeption! window. I appreciate any help that I receive.

Games use a lot more processing power than most other applications, which leads to much more heat buildup. The first thing I would suggest is to take the side of your case off, and blow out the CPU and graphics cards heatsinks with a can of air. Get all the dust you can out of all of the nooks and crannys of the PC. Also, don’t store your computer in an enclosed space as that just traps the heat in like an oven.

If your PC is nice and clean on the inside, then you may want to try getting new video card drivers. You can get the latest versions from nVidia and ATi right from their site. Not only might this solve your problem, but often it will yield even better performance from your GPU.

Updated motherboard chipset drivers are also not a bad idea to try out.

Occasionally the game’s ini files get corrupted or whatnot, and so perhaps a reinstall of Halo is in order. Be sure to back up your saved games first.

Corrupted files also might be causing an issue. Open a command prompt and type chkdsk /f and press enter. It tell you that it can’t examine the disk because it’s in use by another process and then ask you if you’d like to run the test after a reboot. If that’s the case, then tell it Y and reboot. Chkdsk will verify the file indexes and all that and make sure everything is kosher.

Also, clean your startup a bit if none of that helps. Not only will it free up more RAM, but backgroud apps can cause issues too.