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HAC2's site; dev blog vs end user.

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SomeFan (talkcontribs)

the reliability record for http://blog.haloanticheat.com/ by Btcc22's is poor & the site it's self is more of a development blog then then a user front end, on the other hand we have i clearly well designed easy to understand user oriented site http://198.98.120.174/ sanctioned by the the developer for people to use his product. so why use the blog site Keith? i won't start a editing battle but i hope you will come around.

P.S. i don't really know what to do about differing opinions so how do i settle this?

Keith (talkcontribs)

I made a hasty edit, now I've reverted it. Thanks for the heads up!

Amethystviper (talkcontribs)

The end user "site" now leads to a dead domain.

SomeFan (talkcontribs)

http://198.98.120.174 is somewhat preserved at http://hac2.halopc.com/old/index.html , but Devieth (who maintains the site) redid it as http://hac2.halopc.com/ and http://devieth.halonet.net/ , this has already been updated in the wiki.


Halo Anticheat 2 (HAC2) by Chaosvex (Btcc22) has not been in develepment since *2020, and the open source part since 2018 https://github.com/Chaosvex/HAC2

  • A guess based on

release\hac2_loader.dll modification date being ‎Saturday, ‎February ‎15, ‎2020, ‏‎8:32:24 AM

SomeFan (talkcontribs)

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Should we start a cleanup for this article?

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Amethystviper (talkcontribs)

There's a couple of mods and fixes that are updated with new features as well as ones that are possibly no longer available (outside of maybe outdated builds), have moved somewhere else (Open Sauce is now installed through AmaiSosu) ,incompatible with certain mods (newer Chimera now appears to be not be compatible with HAC2 and/or Open Sauce when used together). Some mods like Halo CE Refine has also appeared to clean things up with restoring the single player campaign as far as installation goes.

Keith (talkcontribs)

A cleanup sounds good to me. I suppose change whatever you think is appropriate.

I updated the page a little bit regarding the newer Chimera builds. I'm not actually aware if Open Sauce/HAC2 are still being updated or even relevant enough to keep on the page anymore. Chimera is providing a lot of fixes anyway.

Is it worth mentioning DSOAL for fixing audio issues like hardware acceleration and environmental audio? Wonder if it fixes that ugly asus sound card issue.

Amethystviper (talkcontribs)

I have used DSOAL provided on the Halo CE Refined page and it does restore the option of using hardware accelerated and environmental sounds options whereas not having it would lock those options out. I did notice music cuts off shorter than usual from what I remember, so I'm not sure if its a PC port issue or DSOAL, or something else causing the background music to cut off shorter than intended.

Regarding 30fps and Chimera

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Keith (talkcontribs)

Regarding 30FPS limits, the somewhat recent extension for Halo CE called Chimera which, among other things, can interpolate animations throughout the game.


Forcen (talkcontribs)

Isn't this a multiplayer only fix? No way to get a better framerate on singleplayer? If it is then it should be clarified on the wiki.

Keith (talkcontribs)

No. It works for the Custom Edition single-player campaign.

Alternative method for Mouse/Cursor capture

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VoidsShadow (talkcontribs)

https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Halo:_Combat_Evolved#Mouse_wheel_activates_other_background_windows As of dgVoodoo W.I.P 51, dgVoodoo has become capable of wrapping DirectX9 games to DirectX 11 via D3D9.dll. This means we can now use dgVoodoo's mouse capture, which prevents input such as scrolling from applying to applications which are out of focus. This sort of thing is easiest to test on a multi-monitor setup.

Link for dgVoodoo WIP releases: dege.freeweb.hu/dgVoodoo2/dgVoodoo2.html

Link to changelog from WIP60_1: pastebin.com/nmgFPtzh

(I can't post hyperlinks or else reCaptcha will get stuck in a loop again.)

Keith (talkcontribs)

Thanks; I added it.

VoidsShadow (talkcontribs)

Update: DirectX9 support has been moved to the Stable release branch as of version 2.60 (July-7-2019). As such, the WIP suffix has been dropped.

Controller remapping: button action limits

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SomeFan (talkcontribs)

Two actions can come out of one button press with third party tools, what it states is false "Controller remapping: You cannot bind two actions to a single button under any circumstances." utilities like: joytokey, antimicro, & GlovePIE can change what halo sees as input to accomplish this.

Third party utilities can edit Halos bindings to execute more then one action; Yumiris SPv3 launcher is the example here. as i don't own a controller i can't test anything but i will edit to say "You cannot bind two actions to a single button with out third-party tools" with the hope that some one with a controller will write a section on how to do it. lets try to have the most useful information possible here.

Agent Slacker (talkcontribs)

Wasn't trying to mislead. I probably should have been more specific and mentioned that it's not possible through the game itself, and not third-party tools. When I said under any circumstances, I meant within the game itself. My bad.

Mirh (talkcontribs)

Controller-to-keyboard software should not count, otherwise then just about every game should be hackable.

Game-specific launcher on the other hand seems cool.

SomeFan (talkcontribs)

I think your right! just was not thinking well.

Game-specific launcher by reddit.com/user/yumiris currently branded for SPv3 reddit.com/r/halospv3 but works fine for Vanilla.

AmethystViper (talkcontribs)

Sorry to necro, but this launcher just crashes on me when I try to boot it up without having SVP3 after creating a fresh install of Halo CE.

SomeFan (talkcontribs)

Try deleting/renaming "Halo CE" found in "My Documents/My Games", if that don't work look at there troubleshooting steps. also use the latest version www.reddit.com/r/halospv3/comments/6vho52/spv3_launcher_316_auto_update_startuplaunch_crash/

www.reddit.com/r/halospv3/wiki/index/launcher-crash

www.reddit.com/r/halospv3/wiki/index/troubleshooting/101

if those don't work please use My Email or Discord, this is not a good place to supply Tech support. this whole thread gives me regret :( also sorry about the late response, HTTPS urls make the reCAPTCHA check run again

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