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External monitor setup on laptop

Discussion in 'Techno-Magic' started by Kenixkil, Oct 4, 2008.

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    So, complaining about my tiny 12.1 inch laptop screen, I got a 24 inch LCD which made life so much better...until I tried to run Halo on it. Basically, if I try to run it, I get up the "HALO" part, but then the thing crashes to the desktop except I can hear the Halo music, and the clicks from the Menu options when I move the mouse. If I press enter twice (for Single Player -> Continue), the thing crashes completely and I get a "Gathering exception data" box. I turned off my laptop screen, so the external LCD is my primary display. Starcraft, movies and everything else works fine...is there some way to resolve this?
     
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    vista on the laptop? I remember halo being a dx10 game. There is a dx9 patch/hack as far as I know.
    Ofcourse the drivers are in order, the game is patched, and the graphics adapter of the laptop is able to run Halo?

    I typed your problem in the google search box and got a lot of hits to fora, so it is not an unique problem.
     
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    Hmmm...I tried various parameters in Google but all I got were weird results...

    And yes, it is Vista, drivers and game updated, and before I got the external screen I was running it fine on the laptop's (tiny 12.1 inch) screen.
     
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    which GPU do you have in that laptop?
     
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    ATi Mobility Radeon 1350
     
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    Should be strong enough for Halo1. No driver for the mobile version on the amd website. You played it, so it is strong enough.
     
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    Yeah, it still works fine if I disconnect the external monitor and just play it with the tiny screen...but then there's no point of me having bought the monitor :(
     
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    The fix in that thread didn't work...got the same error as before :(

    And for the resolution, I did try eariler on lowering it to my laptop resolution, 1280 * 800.
    No dice.

    Appreciate the help though :p
     
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    The thing is, the game works fine when I unplug the external monitor and just use the laptop screen, so I don't think there's anything wrong with the files...maybe Halo is just being retarded :(
     
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    The longshots are getting longer. sometimes the monitor has a driver update.
     
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