HaloMD Crashing on OS X Sierra

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HaloMD Crashing on OS X Sierra

Hey everyone. I don't know if I should post this on the Bungee, Microsoft, or an other forum, but I know this problem starter occurring after updating to Mac OS X 10.12, Sierra. I have been a Halo player since the beginning. I have learned to grow and love the series. I have been running HaloMD on my Macs for a while now, and it's worked from Snow Leopard all the way up until El Capitan, normally. However, after updating BOTH my primary Macs, a Mac Pro (Late 2012) and a MacBook Pro (Early 2015) to Sierra, the MBP has been having some problems playing the online multiplayer maps, specifically on some maps including Bigass Final. (No I'm not cussing, Apple forums. Thats actually what the map is called) Anyway, Randomly, It will crash and give me the "___ quit unexpectedly" message. No error logs I could find. I have noticed no specific time or trigger for the crash, It's just random. Campaign works fine. Local multiplayer on all maps, Included modded work. Just darn online multiplayer on certain maps. Does anyone else have this problem?

Anything helps,

Geotrax

(Except telling me it's "mac OS" Sierra. You can't kill it that easily, Apple. It is still the tenth version of the Mac OS operating system, and Mac deserves to be capitalized.)

Mac Pro, Late 2012 running OS X 10.12 Sierra

Posted on Oct 30, 2016 8:14 PM

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dialabrain

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Oct 30, 2016 10:47 PM in response to Geotrax

Geotrax wrote:

(Except telling me it's "mac OS" Sierra. You can't kill it that easily, Apple. It is still the tenth version of the Mac OS operating system, and Mac deserves to be capitalized.)

Let Apple know…

http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

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Geotrax Author

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Nov 8, 2016 6:04 PM in response to dialabrain

Okay, seriously, does anyone know of a solution?

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John Galt

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Nov 8, 2016 6:39 PM in response to Geotrax

I'm not sure if it's the right place, but did you look here: http://www.halomd.net

"Neither the retail nor demo version of Halo run on today's Macs."

I did a cursory search on its forum and found nothing regarding Sierra though...

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Geotrax Author

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Nov 9, 2016 4:05 PM in response to John Galt

Thanks John, However, I've already searched their website. The quote you added referred to the original PPC version of halo. Look at the next sentence.

"This project relives the demo experience."

Anything Helps!

-Geotrax

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Answer 5

Drew Reece

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Nov 10, 2016 10:57 AM in response to Geotrax

I suspect there must be logs somewhere (probably crash logs) but I don't have HaloMD setup on Sierra – is there much you actually want in 10.12? If it was a toss up between Halo or 10.12 I'm not sure Apple would win at the moment for me 😝

Does Note 2 help at…

http://macgamingmods.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=7146

Note 2: If you download Eschaton on macOS 10.12 (Sierra) or later, you may have to first move the Eschaton application outside from its Eschaton folder to another location like your Desktop, and then move the application back inside the Eschaton folder to launch the application. This is because of a new security policy affecting apps that are not self contained like Eschaton. --nil

I don't understand how that alters anything but then Apple have become obsessive about what you can do on OS X & other apps have shown this behaviour on 10.12 for me. I wonder if it removes some quarantine/ sandbox metadata or something else. Maybe try that with the mod files?

Does the map load? I'm assuming you have removed & redownloaded the latest mod files? Do any of the other bigass map versions work? Is it related to the other clients - e.g. does creating your own server work for that map?

Personally I'd gather some data & head over the the macgamingmods forums for some ideas from them, they may have encountered it but need prompting to actually write it down & work through what is happening.

I lost hours if not days to that demo & mods back in the day…

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