As I mentioned in a previous post, dec92009.htm, I'm not really a gamer but there are a few games I like to play.... recently I've gotten hooked on HALO.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_(series)
Right from the start I started getting this error message:
Didn't think it was going to work at all but I decided to click on the Continue in 'Safe Mode' button it it works like a charm.
As I already mentioned, "I only recently started fooling around a bit with hooking my Computer to my TV. I can't watch TV on my computer, but I can use my TV as a monitor."
Movies are a lot plainer on my TV but unfortunately that means fooling around with the Video Acceleration.
Right-click on your desktop, click on properties, click on the settings tab across the top, then the Advanced button towards the bottom. Then click on the Troubleshoot tab you will see the Hardware acceleration slider.
I have to turn it off (set to none) to see movies on the TV - but have to turn it back on to play games like Quake and Halo.
This is the error message I get trying to play halo with acceleration disabled.
But still, even Halo looks better on my TV than my monitor.
Everything was going OK for awhile but then one day the game wouldn't start up, it was giving me an error message that the following file was corrupt - D:\Halo\SHADERS\fx.bin prompting me to reinstall the game to fix the problem.
My first instinct, I just decided to copy the fx.bin file to another folder on my hard drive. Then I deleted the original and copied the file back again to its original destination. Don't know why but it worked.
Want to hear something stranger? I tried to reproduce the error message to get a screen shot to show you. I made a backup of the file in question and then deleted it from the game folder, started up the game.....it just started playing, no error! Go figure!
I have 3 computers networked together. Lets call them ComputerA, ComputerB and ComputerC. ComputerA is my main one and I can access the shared folders/files on ComputerB and ComputerC no problem. But I couldn't access ComputerA from ComputerB and ComputerC.
I kept getting the following error:
You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions.
Found the solution here that works.
http://www.megaleecher.net/Network_Access_Denied
basically:
Click on Start then Run, type regedit and press Enter key then navigate to -
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/Lsa
Change value of key restrictanonymous to 0. Reboot computer to apply change.
Otherwise you can download the reg files to your computer and just double-click on them to enter them into your registry. When the message comes up asking if you want to accept the adding of the info to registry, click Yes, reboot.
I can now access all shared files/folders from all computers.
To enable anonymous access from network -
www.megaleecher.net/uploads/anonymous-access-on.reg
To disable anonymous access from network -
www.megaleecher.net/uploads/anonymous-access-off.reg
Otherwise copy the following to a new text file and don't forget to rename the extension .txt to .reg.
to turn on - copy the following (between the lines but not the lines):
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa]
"restrictanonymous"=dword:00000000
to turn off - copy the following (between the lines but not the lines):
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa]
"restrictanonymous"=dword:00000001