Application Details:
Version: | Trial |
License: | Demo |
URL: | http://www.gearboxsoftware.com... |
Votes: | 1 |
Latest Rating: | Platinum |
Latest Wine Version Tested: | 1.6-rc5 |
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What works
Installer, game play, multiplayer.
What does not
Frame rate is a little unstable, the game sometimes trips up when resizing the screan area it's drawing to, and turns into a box you have to fidget with.
You can get around the second problem by emulating a virtual desktop.
You must prefix the path to Halo.exe with padsp wine to enable Pulseaudio to wrap Wine.
Workarounds
What was not tested
N/A
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
The glitches I listed are why I won't give this a platinum, although Wine 1.1.2 is running Halo better than ever.
Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
Show | Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Jul 20 2013 | 1.6-rc5 | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | an anonymous user | |
Show | Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Aug 12 2009 | 1.1.27 | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | an anonymous user | |
Show | Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Sep 13 2008 | 1.1.4 | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | an anonymous user | |
Current | Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Aug 09 2008 | 1.1.2 | Yes | Yes | No | Silver | Ryan | |
Show | Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Jun 23 2008 | 1.0.0 | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | an anonymous user |
Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
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
Use argument -windowed to play correctly
Example: wine halo.exe -windowed
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
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