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Hi all, Has anybody tried to install Halo on a Linux distro? I know it's a microsnot game and all but I was just curious if it was possible. Maybe under Wine or WineX?
Distribution: Gentoo 2004.2: Who needs exmmpkg when you have emerge?
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it wasnt made by... them . halo was made by bungie, the ppl who made us marathon: aleph one. more to the point, though. ive never tried running it with wine or winex, since i dont have the game. maybe you could try the demo.
I tried to get it to work, but it kept poping up with a msgbox saying "This program requires M$ Winblows 98 or Higher". it must be some 'new' copy protection bs that M$ has implemented. I haven't tried it with WineX yet b/c I don't want to spend the $5 per month for the software.
the message about win98 required can be fixed in the wine or winex config file by uncommenting the line that says what winversion to emulate; set this to win98
i too am interested to see if Halo would run on linux
I already have the winver set to win2k, I tried it with winver win98 and it still gave me the error. I ended up getting a copy of winxp through school to play sof2 b/c punkbuster would kick/ban me from servers when i used wine saying I had a video driver hack #90009. I am awaiting a new release to test it out.
so did you give up on this project, or still working on it? i just decided i'll try it too, and curious if anyone wants the results, need a demo version first..
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the difference is that winex has a more mature directx implementation, thus making it, in general, more compatible with windoze games then vanilla wine. wine is still decent, though.
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