Halo Combat Evolved - Game Types

[swish]

I setup a Halo Combat Evolved server. We all know this game can have "custom game types"

 

So we create a folder called profiles and add the savegames ect in there.

 

When we start it via command line physically the box it starts fine...however when TCAdmin starts it it will not recognize the custom game types.

 

I believe its because its starting as Administrator when we start it manually on the box...but TCAdmin starts it under SYSTEM.

 

Any ideas or tricks to get it to recognize the file when starting under SYSTEM?

 

Tip, Tricks...I'm loosing some hair over this one...lol

 

We are using the same command line starting on the box and also starting from tcadmin. Only difference is it starts as Administrator vs System

[ECF]

Are you using the -path command to specify the directory in the commandline?

 

If I recall correctly Halo will use the Documents and Settings folder to store the maps by default, and will look for that directory unless the path command points to the users game install folder.

 

So the commandline would have -path %userfilespath% in it.

[JasonF]

1) You should have a folder in the game server's root folder called

 

savegames

 

From there you put the custom profiles

 

 

2) Put in the command line at the end

 

-path %gameserverroot%

[swish]

Lemme give that a shot also Jason.

[JasonF]

I used to have several Halo clients and it worked great for them. I even added the -path parameter to the command line changer. Here is my custom command line:

 

-exec halo.txt -ip %serverip% -port %serverport% %usercmdline% %gameserverroot%

 

Create a custom command line parameter

 

-path

 

allow user access but don't allow user to set value. Then they just check off that they want to use custom profiles and it will change the command line to.

 

-exec halo.txt -ip %serverip% -port %serverport% -path %gameserverroot%

[swish]

Well....another failure...lol

 

I have tried the same setup, command line, -path ect you have posted Jason and it just wont catch em.

 

Ill try to get with you on MSN tonight...maybe we can figure this damn thing out.

 

[FearlessG1]

I am having the same problem. My command line looks like "-exec halo.txt -ip serverip -port 2301 -path C:\UserFiles\clan\GameServers\TC22722273775147346117543\ " I have the savegames folder in there with my custom game types and it seems to be ignoring it completely. if i put the savegames folder at C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\My Games\Halo and just launch the haloded.exe it reads the custom game type fine. Any suggestions?

[rich835]

I used to run a lot of these with firedaemon many moons ago, had exactly the same problem. The fix was to run the service under a user account whose home directory was pointing to the folder where the game was installed for the user. It was all to do with profiles. Don't know how you could replicate that functionality with TCAdmin though.

[ChrisOlver]

Unfortunately we run quite a few Halo servers for customers and the only way to do this was via the My Documents\Games\Halo method. We found no documentation to support any other method.

 

Pain the arse tbh

[FearlessG1]

Im pretty new at TCA. Could you explain step by step on what i need to do once i have the server created in TCA and the -path set to the server dir using my current dir's above? Thanks for any and all help guys.

[JasonF]

Halo can now read/write data files to a user specified folder using the -path command line argument. This is particularly useful for Halo Dedicated Servers but also be used for users whose 'My Documents' folder is remapped to a UNC path. It is an advanced option and using it will force you to manually move saved games and multiplayer gametypes.

 

http://www.softwarepatch.com/games/halo.html

[swish]

Hmm might be the issue....Im using 1.04 for this setup.

 

Ill try it on our 1.07 install.

[JasonF]

OOOHHHHHH! The -path parameter was introduced in a later patch. The most current version of Halo Combat Evolved is v1.07

 

Let me know on MSN if you want the files Swish. They are free download so I don't mind sharing them.

[Jaggl]

can someone provide me the gamefiles plz?!

[JasonF]

v1.02 - http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/c/f/1cf3647a-4d61-48d2-8923-ac068a9c9768/Halo_DS_1_02.exe

 

v1.06 patch - http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/6/f/76fecf5b-21b4-4255-8416-37b2f4846f7b/haloded.exe

 

v1.07 patch - http://downloads.gamezone.com/demos/d12777.htm