help

[supersniper]

well i'm sure this has been asked millions of times but
i'm having issues with sapien.

It just opens and closes instantly, i checked the debug and all it's saying is this


03.07.11 04:05:07 sapien pc 01.00.00.0609 ----------------------------------------------
03.07.11 04:05:07 reference function: _write_to_error_file
03.07.11 04:05:07 reference address: 401b13
03.07.11 04:05:07 Couldn't read map file './sapienbeta.map'


I've tried setting the affinity to 1 cpu processor, i've tried the sapien window fix app but it's not 64bit compatible, i tried setting the compatibility of it to windows 98/ME, i've tried disabling desktop compositions (which fixes hek+'s infininte looping when click on the menu toolbar)

and nothing is working.

[Rooster]

"couldnt read map file." Maybe ur missing tags?

[Rooster]

wait, does it do it for any map you try to open?

[supersniper]

well i used hek+ to extract the tags from bloodgulch ( i assumed all the tags would be there)
i didn't download that pack of fixed/missing tags from ghost yet are those still up on halomaps?

[Cortexian]

HEK+ often extracts files incorrectly and they end up being corrupted, try re-extracting them.

[supersniper]

before i try re-extracting.
has anyone used these yet?
http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=2620

EDIT:
nope didn't work, no maps work. also when i open guerilla the same error pops up but instead of it instantly closing it stays open.



03.07.11 15:16:47 guerilla pc 01.00.00.0609 ----------------------------------------------
03.07.11 15:16:47 reference function: _write_to_error_file
03.07.11 15:16:47 reference address: 4011a4
03.07.11 15:16:47 Couldn't read map file './guerillabeta.map'

maybe it's because i moved all the HEK stuff to this directory "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Halo Editing Kit\" ??


even tool spits out that error when i run it in cmd...

[Cloud]

yes directory, make it normal thats the problem i was having with it. put all the maps and everything in the regular program files not (x86) and work from there it should work. thats what i did. On windows 7 there should be like a few games in the solitaire ect..

[Cortexian]

It works fine from (x86) as long as it's ins '\Microsoft Games\Halo Custom Edition\' and not a custom directory. There's no point in putting it in 'Program Files' because none of CE or HEK is made to work under 64bit iirc.

[supersniper]

hmm alright, in my 32 bit folder a custom directory worked fine and it was much easier to handle, but whatevs is an old game lol