Halo: Combat Evolved

What works

Oh so close, almost everything. Graphics are flawless, no glitches, full speed even with full AA and AF on my 8800GTS. No hud problems, screen lined up properly.

Installer ran flawlessly too.

What does not

Sound. Just doesn't work with ALSA or OSS as I have tried on my PC.

The mouse doesn't move correctly.. it moves extremely slowly then suddenly jumps halfway across the screen. This makes the game completely unplayable! Really unfortunate.. so close to being perfect!

I had issues loading it up fullscreen, I loaded it up with in a Wine desktop to get it working (it just stayed over my wallpaper, leaving the top and bottom Gnome bars over the top.)

Workarounds

What was not tested

Nothing, I tested all aspects of the game (however did not play from start to finish).

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

"wine explorer /desktop=Halo,1024x768 halo" Launch it with that and it will load up in a window fine. I rated it gold merely because of how awesome it ran, even though it was semi-unplayable. It was.. kind of playable, but you would only be able to play on Easy.

1. Install mfc42 - for example, with winetricks:

   winetricks mfc42

2. Insert the CD, or mount the ISO:

   mount -oloop Halo.iso /cdrom

3. Launch the setup:

   ./Setup.Exe

4. Run the updater to patch Halo, which now includes no-cd:

   ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Microsoft\ Games/Halo/haloupdate.exe

5. Run the game. The working directory must be the Halo directory.

   cd .wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Microsoft\ Games/Halo
   ./halo.exe

Installing 'halotrialsetup.exe' into a clean wineprefix should work fine with wine-1.3.37.

To run the game, the working directory must be the Halo Trial directory, e.g.

cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Microsoft\ Games/Halo\ Trial/
wine halo.exe

2015-10-06 Admin note: the following issue has been patched in version 1.0.10 of Halo Custom Edition and Halo Combat Evolved.

2014-11-08 Admin note:  the following was extracted from a user comment made on 2013-10-30 and may or may not be relevant to current Wine.

THIS DOES NOT APPLY TO CURRENT VERSION OF HALO CE/PC

Wine is, like Windows, affected by a bug where Halo doesn't render shaders as well on Nvidia hardware. The most visible symptom is that the active camouflage is only using transparency instead of the proper way where it is using a pretty neat shader.
The Windows fix is based on making Halo believe it is running on an ATI card, which is not so complicated within Wine. Loosely based on the Windows fix, enter these into the registry:
As DWORD: "HKCU\Software\Wine\Direct3D\VideoPciDeviceID" = "724b"
As DWORD: "HKCU\Software\Wine\Direct3D\VideoPciVendorID" = "1002"
If your Halo is in a more vast prefix, it is recommended to specify it exclusively for the halo.exe as this fix may have the potential to burn your house down.
This picture will display the basic improvement: i.imgur.com/Rq93SgZ.jpg

Use argument -windowed to play correctly

Example: wine halo.exe -windowed