Halo: Combat Evolved

In the trial version, you can experience both single and multiplayer gameplay, including limited vehicle combat. In the single player campaign level The Silent Cartographer, you assume the role of super-soldier Master Chief as you take on the fierce alien faction known as the Covenant. In the multiplayer map Blood Gulch, up to 16 human opponents can light each other up with devastating weaponry and combat vehicles, including the new Rocket Warthog and the Banshee, either online or via LAN connection.

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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	Operating system	Test date	Wine version	Installs?	Runs?	Used Workaround?	Rating	Submitter
Current	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
Show	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

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HowTo / Notes

Installation

Running full game:

Install mfc42 - for example, with winetricks:
```
winetricks mfc42
```
Insert the CD, or mount the ISO:
```
mount -oloop Halo.iso /cdrom
```
Launch the setup:
```
./Setup.Exe
```

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

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

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

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

Running trial:

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

HOWTO Run in windowed mode

Use argument -windowed to play correctly

Example: wine halo.exe -windowed

Active camouflage fix

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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