So I hopped on Halo 4 today and purchased the Champions Bundle. I then preceeded to the Xbox Dashboard and came back thirty minutes later to enjoy the game. I launched Halo 4 and I noticed no annoying main screen music, I found that weird. I then clicked the start menu and the icons wouldn’t load except Service Record (i.e. no AR where it says loadouts). I clicked on where the armour customization icon is and instantly notice the character model on the right wasn’t rendered or textured and looked as if he was made of play dough. Ignoring all these obvious bugs I tried to do a game of Matchmaking but I get instantly dropped. I cannot load any campaign levels except the cutscene levels, and I cannot load Spartan Ops. I was able to load a custom game once but have had no luck since. I have tried multiple fixes, including deleting all Halo 4 content from my HDD and that didn’t fix the problem. At this point I’ve redownloaded all TU’s and map packs.
> So I hopped on Halo 4 today and purchased the Champions Bundle. I then preceeded to the Xbox Dashboard and came back thirty minutes later to enjoy the game. I launched Halo 4 and I noticed no annoying main screen music, I found that weird. I then clicked the start menu and the icons wouldn’t load except Service Record (i.e. no AR where it says loadouts). I clicked on where the armour customization icon is and instantly notice the character model on the right wasn’t rendered or textured and looked as if he was made of play dough. Ignoring all these obvious bugs I tried to do a game of Matchmaking but I get instantly dropped. I cannot load any campaign levels except the cutscene levels, and I cannot load Spartan Ops. I was able to load a custom game once but have had no luck since. I have tried multiple fixes, including deleting all Halo 4 content from my HDD and that didn’t fix the problem. At this point I’ve redownloaded all TU’s and map packs.
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> Does anyone have a solution? Thank you.
> > Your disk is probably scratched.
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> I’ve lost two Halo’s this way. Terrible. No fix.
If you take it to gamestop they’ll buff out your disk for 5 bucks.
I’ve done it twice and it works like a charm.
Fixes all the audio, loading, and rendering problems.
> > > Your disk is probably scratched.
> >
> > I’ve lost two Halo’s this way. Terrible. No fix.
>
> If you take it to gamestop they’ll buff out your disk for 5 bucks.
> I’ve done it twice and it works like a charm.
> Fixes all the audio, loading, and rendering problems.
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One disk I still have, the other I threw out long ago. How much damage can that trick fix?
> > > > Your disk is probably scratched.
> > >
> > > I’ve lost two Halo’s this way. Terrible. No fix.
> >
> > If you take it to gamestop they’ll buff out your disk for 5 bucks.
> > I’ve done it twice and it works like a charm.
> > Fixes all the audio, loading, and rendering problems.
>
> …
>
> One disk I still have, the other I threw out long ago. How much damage can that trick fix?
Well the disks have a protective layer on it, so when you buff the disk it’s not actually buffing the disk itself, it’s just the protective later.
So it can fix all scratches.
This happened to me when I got the second half of spartan ops a while back, but unfortunately this was later met by a redring that indicated the hard drive was broken, try removing the hard drive and playing the game, if it works fine then you need a new hard drive
> Well the disks have a protective layer on it, so when you buff the disk it’s not actually buffing the disk itself, it’s just the protective later.
> So it can fix all scratches.
I’ll have to look into that. Maybe my copy of Reach can yet be saved.
I think you can download War Games without the Install disc. I had to do this for my bro’s Xbox when he borrowed Halo 4. But yeah, Take it to gamestop. They can fix it.