Thread: Halo for PC Will Live On

While this article came out a month ago, I have only just seen it and thought it might be a good discussion topic.

Bungie will be releasing a new patch to the PC version of Halo: Combat Evolved which will migrate the GameSpy dependency to another service which will allow the game to continue on for its dedicated, albeit small, community.

The developer has taken the opportunity to also include a range of bug-fixes in the update. Bungie's full patch notes lie below.

Moved Gamespy services to use new non-Gamespy server
Fixed a family of index-out-of-bounds bugs which had been exploited to crash clients
Made banlist parsing not case-sensitive
Removed halt on cache file verify error
Removed some verbose debug logging of gamespy connections
Fixed handling of video cards with >= 2GB of memory
Enabled refractive Active Camo on Nvidia cards, which had previously used an alpha fade. (AMD cards already have this)
Updated 2003-era upper bound on the video resolution picker. Use at your own risk; the game is untested at 4800x3600.
Updated chatbox settings to work with newer resolutions
Models node limit updated to 63
Fixed reading sv_ban_penalty from init.txt
Disabled executable_is_valid checksum from strings.dll
Allowed network access in devmode
Fixed parsing of custom map names containing a "."

It looks like they are adding in some increased support for admins, giving them some teeth to ban hackers' based on their CD key.

While it's easy to see that they are up to bigger and better things, it's great to see a developer give some attention to an old classic and keep it running, despite a dwindling community.

Bungie to update Halo PC with GameSpy server fix • Eurogamer.net

Ya, I updated my game when it came out , and still several hundred people playing.