Application Details:
Version: | 1.0 - 1.09 |
License: | Retail |
URL: | http://www.gearboxsoftware.com... |
Votes: | Marked as obsolete |
Latest Rating: | Bronze |
Latest Wine Version Tested: | 5.0.4-staging |
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What works
The game, at great performance. Everything about the game works perfectly. Internet, LAN, and campaign all work perfectly. Note that I needed to add mfc42 natively to get the installer to take click events (and work), but I'm still giving it a Platinum rating.
What does not
Nothing. mfc42.dll was needed to be manually added/winetricksed to get the installer to work. Mouse is a little jumpy at times if you leave the default frame rate at 30 FPS lock, but if you select VSYNC or NO VSYNC, the mouse will work much better and smoother.
Workarounds
What was not tested
Nothing. I've played the campaign through with no problems and done many Internet games under Wine.
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
Show | macOS 10.15 "Catalina" | Apr 07 2021 | 5.0.4-staging | N/A | Yes | No | Bronze | Thomas Helton | |
Show | Ubuntu 20.10 "Groovy" (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Dec 14 2020 | 5.0.3 | No, but has workaround | Yes | Yes | Bronze | Charles Edward Rogers Jr. | |
Show | Manjaro Linux 18.0.0 | Apr 05 2019 | 4.5 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | Bob Niemöller | |
Show | Debian GNU/kFreeBSD Unstable "Sid" | Aug 30 2014 | 1.7.25 | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | Johannes | |
Show | Fedora 20 x86_64 | May 15 2014 | 1.7.18 | Yes | Yes | No | Silver | Zachary J |
Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
657 | Many games and applications need 'mfc42.dll' ('winetricks -q mfc42' is a workaround) | NEW | View | |
1631 | Sound underruns occur in directsound | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
3112 | Get bink videos working correctly | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
3981 | Pixel shaders problem in halo demo with wine cvs dated from 1 december | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
6175 | Halo crashes with debug options that I can't click with nocd patch | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
6369 | Video card detection is wrong | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
6971 | Mouse "escapes" window or is confined to an area in the full screen program | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
7264 | Halo just presents a black screen rather than the menu | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
7615 | Regression; Black screen in Halo | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
8845 | Halo screen usage is messed up when in Virtual Desktop mode | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
8846 | Halo textures have odd colourations appear and dissapear | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
8847 | Halo - All non-static objects are invisible | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
9321 | Halo: Locks up on startup | CLOSED | INVALID | View |
9598 | Halo: Combat Evolved crashes on startup | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
9680 | Halo crashes on startup | CLOSED | DUPLICATE | View |
10673 | Gnome panel bars overlap Halo in fullscreen mode | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
13741 | Halo displays a different angle camera of the bottom left of the screen on the top left | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
14047 | Correction: HALO - colorful geometric artefacts | CLOSED | WORKSFORME | View |
17167 | Graphics completely freeze in Halo | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
17551 | Halo: Installer fails to complete with error "Cannot load pidgen.dll" (needs mfc42.dll) | CLOSED | INVALID | View |
19499 | Halo 1's built-in chat doesn't work | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
23048 | Unreal Tournament 3 fails and locks up | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
37863 | Halo only works using Nvidia graphics | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
winetricks mfc42
mount -oloop Halo.iso /cdrom
./Setup.Exe
~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Microsoft\ Games/Halo/haloupdate.exe
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
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