Problems with Halo: Combat Evolved

[RJHNY1]

Hey guys. I just bought Halo for the PC. I installed the game and when I attempted to start the game, I was prompted with a message saying that I don't have enough RAM to run the game and to close down other programs (no other programs were open) to play the game.

But I have 4 GB of RAM! Plenty of RAM! More than enough. Why am I getting this message and what can I do to fix it? I also have a GeForce 9800. I'm running Vista Ultimate, 64 bit.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

 

[BlueWeasel]

Have you tried running it in compatibility mode?

 

[RJHNY1]

In properties, right? Yeah, I have it on Windows XP, Service Pack 2.

 

[Quizard]

it might not be supported on a 64bit OS

 

[RJHNY1]

I read that it is supported. Other people said they played it on 64 bit w/o a problem.

 

[blckgrffn]

If it is like the latest medal of honor, it may detect anything above ~3.25GB of ram as 0GB of ram, which is just awesome.

Trying going down to 2GB and see what Halo says.

Nat

 

[Ryland]

I have played this on Vista 64 with 4GB of ram without any problems.

 

[BFG10K]

This a known issue that is cured by patching the game to the latest version.

 

[Rebel44]

I had same problem with FreeSpace 2 - solution was to set compatability mode for Win98/ME