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Bungie has finally scrapped CD checking in old-timer Halo 1 for PC, feeling five years of spinning may have ruined your discs.

This will be coming in patch 1.08, which will be mandatory from Friday onwards, according to the Bungie website. Other fixes address server-crashing bugs but nothing else; the game is too old to bother combatting aimbots in, apparently.

Anyway, Bungie doesn't officially support Halo 1 PC because Microsoft owns the game. This patch was made as a favour to the community.

However, don't expect too many more fixes in the future or for source code to be opened to the internet.

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kestral #1 4 years ago

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nice gesture.
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skillian #2 4 years ago

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I always find EG odd in their choices of which bits of PC gaming news to report and which not to bother with.
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paketep #3 4 years ago

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Very good.

Now, PC gaming would be sooooo much better if every developer did this, five years earlier!

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peterfll #4 4 years ago

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EG are odd, but then odd rules.
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Gaol #5 4 years ago

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I played recently on an 8800 and encountered a nasty driver glitch that meant a hard lock whenever one particular texture entered the field of view at higher resolutions. It only occurs on a couple of the later levels (the snow ones), and the only workaround was to lower the resolution. Don't know if that has been fixed.

Other than that, the game has actually aged pretty well; and its fun playing through on todays hardware locked at 60fps.
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autogunner #6 4 years ago

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halo what?
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Ryuken #7 4 years ago

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"I always find EG odd in their choices of which bits of PC gaming news to report and which not to bother with. "

Aye, like not mentioning the 'newly expanded multiplayer' for GTA IV PC, which was frankly the most interesting 'news' about the whole thing really.

EDIT: nothing wrong with this newsbit though, the more, the better.

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bdc #8 4 years ago

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Well er.... thanks I guess?
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GamesConnoisseur #9 4 years ago

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Is this also perhaps the subtle way for Bungie to get back at MS for E3, as MS owned the game and not Bungie?!

/paranoid mode cannot be switched off!
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SeesThroughAll #10 4 years ago

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That being the case, I might give this a try. Maybe the difficulty is up on the PC, since it's controlled the natural FPS way. Bargain bin, here I come.

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FFS #11 4 years ago

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What does this mean?

That you can play a copied version?
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hiddenranbir #12 4 years ago

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Yes.
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kapowaz #13 4 years ago

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Did Bungie really make this patch? I thought Gearbox were in charge of the port?
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Wyrm #14 4 years ago

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Haha, as if anyone will give a toss.
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