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Halo on mavericks HELP!

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Wilson Wimpee

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Aug 7, 2014
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Hey guys I just upgraded to mavericks and I went and installed my favorite game for mac Halo Combat Evolved so I installed it and started playing it but it was soo slow and not smooth I tried to install the patch but it did not help the performance but the servers so how do I make halo smooth again? I mean he is slow on jumping and shooting and almost everything is not smooth except for the main menu and my specs are power enough to run halo on max settings

SPECS

Processor: 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

Memory: 8 GB 1067 MHz DDR3

Graphics: NIVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256MB

Software: OS X 10.9.4

Please guys help me with this there should be no reason for halo to run like crap on a good mac :(
 
Hi,

I suggest :

- make sure that Spotlight in no longer indexing (it indexes after an OS upgrade)

- use Disk Utility to : verify/repair the disk + repair the permissions.

- restart the computer
 
First click "verify disk".

If the message is green (disk in good condition), you don't need to repair the disk (repairing can't hurt, though).

Then, repair the permissions.

Restart, and test the machine and your game.
 
Wilson Wimpee said:
ok so what does the repair permissions do?
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Some people repair, or recommend repairing permissions for situations where it isn't appropriate. Repairing permissions only addresses very specific issues. It is not a "cure all" or a general performance enhancer, and doesn't need to be done on a regular basis. It also doesn't address permissions problems with your files or 3rd party apps.
Disk Utility repairs the permissions for files installed by the Mac OS X Installer, Software Update, or an Apple software installer. It doesn’t repair permissions for your documents, your home folder, and third-party applications.

You can verify or repair permissions only on a disk with Mac OS X installed.
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Does Disk Utility check permissions on all files?

Files that aren't installed as part of an Apple-originated installer package are not listed in a receipt and therefore are not checked. For example, if you install an application using a non-Apple installer application, or by copying it from a disk image, network volume, or other disk instead of installing it via Installer, a receipt file isn't created. This is expected. Some applications are designed to be installed in one of those ways.

Also, certain files whose permissions can be changed during normal usage without affecting their function are intentionally not checked.
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There are times when repairing permissions is appropriate. To do so, here are the instructions:
If repairing permissions results in error messages, some of these messages can be ignored and should be no cause for concern.
 
Use Activity Monitor to see what other processes you may have running that are consuming system resources. Close any such apps that aren't needed while you're playing your game. Beyond that, I can't offer much, as I don't play games on computers.
 
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First: you don't have a 'good' Mac. You've got a decent one, but your 9400M is a weak integrated graphics card, not dedicated.

Second: my system is much more powerful than yours (GTX 660, 3.4GHz i7) and I have problems with Halo in Mavericks, too. You're best off running it under Windows if at all possible.
 
I played Halo using Wine and it worked great. The health/shields bar sometimes would turn a funny color but nothing that effected gameplay at all. Otherwise it was flawless. Details for setting it up should be available on AppDB. I used Wineskin to set it up.

I forgot to mention, this was on Mountain Lion but I don't see why it would be a problem with Mavericks.
 
Wow, i never knew halo was available on the Mac osx, where do i get it from?
:eek: need it ..

Thanks..
 
Nowadays, eBay. Halo for OS X hasn't been sold in stores for a long time, and if you get a copy today you'll have to pay a high markup.
 
i was planning to install halo later today, haha thanks for this thread, im gonna try installing and using the patch
 
I always thought Halo was a PPC game. I'm guessing M$ threw an Intel patch out there at some point.
 
roadbloc said:
I always thought Halo was a PPC game. I'm guessing M$ threw an Intel patch out there at some point.
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It was initially PPC, but the studio who ported it to OS X, the now defunct MacSoft, added the universal binary patch later. If you had the PPC version and upgraded to an Intel Mac, you could buy the UB patch on digital download for I think $5. Actually, "patch" is a bit of a misnomer because what you downloaded was essentially the full game, recompiled with Intel support. The only thing you needed from your PPC copy was the CD key.

MacSoft later released a boxed universal edition, which I happen to own. Unfortunately, there's something wrong with the CD I have and the installer crashes before finishing, so I had to find a download copy of the UB patch and install from that.

The user-generated patch I linked to above works perfectly on my MBP with 10.9.4. The only major downside is that, while widescreen resolutions are supported, it simply stretches everything to fill the screen. There are fixes for this on Windows, and you could presumably do the same thing with Wine. However, this doesn't bother me much. 1280x1024 nets a steady 60 fps with all details and vsync enabled. Shadows are glitchy so I have them disabled. Other than that, the game runs perfectly.
 
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