rec0's Devicator Crashing Problems

[flyingmonkey3]

i just need a step-by-step guide on setting up this application...please help me and i need every single detail cleared up...

1. Download rec0's server app for 1.08 here.

2. Download Tiny Hexer here and install it.

3. Open "haloceded_extended.exe" using Tiny Hexer.

4. Scroll down and look at rows 0xE140 to 0xE1B0. Refer to this picture and make the changes by highlighting each different character and typing in the new one. DO NOT backspace or delete the characters. Simply highlight and type over the old ones to replace them.

5. Do the same for rows 0xE2E0 to 0xE2F0 and row 0xE320.

6. Save and close Tiny Hexer.

7. Open the _d folder and open the _d.mdb file inside using Microsoft Access.

8. Click on the "players" tab and another window will pop up with something similar to this picture.

9. In the "names" column, replace the name in the first row with your own name. In the "cdkey" column, replace the cdkey hash in the first row with your own cdkey hash. In the "ips" column delete the number in the first row and leave it blank. Leave the "admin" column alone.

10. Save and close Microsoft Access.

11. Go to your Halo Custom Edition install directory. That will be something like this if you installed Halo CE normally: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Halo Custom Edition"

12. IF YOU ALREADY HAVE A DEDICATED SERVER, create a folder and name it "Server Backup". Copy and paste the original "haloceded.exe" to that new folder.

13. IF RUNNING A HOME DEDI: Copy the "_d" folder, the "sapp" folder, "haloceded.exe", "haloceded_extended.exe", and "sapp.dll" from rec0's server app and paste them in your Halo CE install directory. If a window pops up about overwriting existing files, chose yes.

14. Find the "init.txt" file in your Halo CE install directory. If you do not already have one, create one and refer to this.

15. Open the "init.txt" file and look for the line that says "sv_mapcycle_add". Create three new lines above that. In the first new line type "sv_log_enabled 1".
In the second new line type "sv_log_file "serverlog"". In the third new line type "sv_log_start". Scroll down and look at the last line, which should say "sv_mapcycle_begin". Create a new line under that and type in "load". Save and close "init.txt".

16. To run rec0's server app, simply run "haloceded.exe" first, and then immediately after, run "haloceded_extended.exe".

That is all.

*Edit*
Logfile added to tut at step 15.

[jcap]

17. And then go back to killing CE by playing on an outdated version of the game instead of the REAL 1.08 release.

Stay on 1.08. It has fewer issues and there's going to be some interesting exclusive things coming for it in the future. It's smaller than 1.00, but they need to switch as well. If you can convince them to move over and play using the native 1.08 patch and exe (it requires no cd anyway...), then we can hopefully bring the two communities back together again instead of being segregated.

[StankBacon]

^

very nice, thank you... i didn't feel like typing all that


-edit- responding to flyingmonkey3

[flyingmonkey3]

I just reinstalled .NET x35 SP1 and still have the application exception error.

The haloceded_extended.exe console still displays the same thing:
Maps loaded, Devicating...
Attempt to close data reader failed
DB Query: "Select * from maps"
DB Query: "Select * from expressions"

This time application exception seems to have changed a little:
Process id=0x16a8 (5800), Thread id=0x149c (5276).

Maybe there is something wrong with my _d.mdb file? I noticed that whenever you access and modify the file, a new file pops up called "_d.ldb". Usually it goes away after you save and close, but it stays there after the app crashes.

[Neuro Guro]

Interesting.

[1ndistinkt]

thank you so much for the explanation....i did not know that we had to IMMEDIATELY launch haloceded_extended i guess thats y it didnt work....another problem i have is HEX EDITING i do not understand what to change the characters in the picture to...im guesing theserver name...but if my server has a different name and i change it, do i leave spaces? i dont understand the concept of hex editing....one last problem...when i start the app i get: Maps loaded, Devicating...
Attempt to close data reader failed
DB Query: "Select * from maps"
DB Query: "Select * from expressions"
and if i try to go INTO the server it loses connection and it crashes....i have NET framework 3.0.....how can i fix this?

[flyingmonkey3]

Could my problem have anything to do with the fact that I have Vista? Maybe if someone feels comfortable with it they could send me their "_d.mdb" file and "haloceded_extended.exe" file and I could try the app using them. If it crashes again then it has to be a problem with my computer.

*Edit*
^ Ah 1ndistinkt you have the same problem I have. Try updating to .NET 3.5, although it didn't help me much. Or maybe there is a newer .NET version?

[jcap]

thank you so much for the explanation....i did not know that we had to IMMEDIATELY launch haloceded_extended i guess thats y it didnt work....another problem i have is HEX EDITING i do not understand what to change the characters in the picture to...im guesing theserver name...but if my server has a different name and i change it, do i leave spaces? i dont understand the concept of hex editing....one last problem...when i start the app i get: Maps loaded, Devicating...
Attempt to close data reader failed
DB Query: "Select * from maps"
DB Query: "Select * from expressions"
and if i try to go INTO the server it loses connection and it crashes....i have NET framework 3.0.....how can i fix this?

If you don't like hex editing, you really don't have to do it. It's only for /stunts and /restore commands. After you run those, the server name will change to the default one in the app, but you can just do an sv_name "NEW SERVER NAME" and change it after you run either of those commands.

And PLEASE clean up your grammar. We'll help, but not if we have to struggle trying to decipher what you want to say.

[Syuusuke]

You know my gets stuck after DB query: "select * from players where cdkey = '<this key>'"

And then it crashes when I joined...

but when I switched to the older mdb file it didnt crash.

So its crashing when I, the admin join.
That's an error for SAPP?

[1ndistinkt]

i still have the same problem, i start the server and start the haloce_extended and it says "attempt to close data reader failed" and it says DB Query: Select * from expressions and select * from maps...also it crashes when I (the admin) join this server...i dont understand