Halo 2 Vista

What works

• Launching the game
• Multiplayer (with Project Cartographer: http://www.h2v.online/)
• Changing graphics settings
• Audio
• Changing Appearance
• First cutscene
• Beginning of first campaign level

What does not

• Visual artifacts
  • Evident in main menu and first level of campaign, I didn't experience this in any of the few multiplayer maps I tested.)

• Controller Support
  • The controller is registered as an input, and can be used, but the buttons are incorrectly mapped. I reckon that this has to do with the fact that the game requires xinput9_1_0.dll, as all games that I've used xinput on WINE with use xinput1_3.dll. I installed xinput via winetricks and installed x360ce.ini and xinput1_3.dll, but the controller still does not map correctly

Workarounds

• The installer was not tested, as I'm assuming it is still broken. I copied the files (with Project Cartographer already installed) from a Windows 10 Home 64-bit installation.

• Installed d3dx9 from winetricks, as it is required to launch the game

• In order to hear sound, I installed mfc40, mfc42, wmp9 then wmp10.

• Game must be launched from halo2.exe, as the launcher doesn't work.

What was not tested

• Campaign playthrough
• Exhaustive online play
• Installation

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU: Intel
• Driver: open source

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