Halo on Linux?

randon · 12-04-2003, 06:46 PM

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?

Thanks for any replies,
RANDON

trickykid · 12-04-2003, 08:54 PM

Moved: More suitable in our Games forum.

soulwatcher1974 · 12-08-2003, 10:50 PM

LOL I wonder what old Bill would think about that@

LavaDevil94 · 12-09-2003, 02:13 PM

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.

iaredam · 12-12-2003, 09:39 AM

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.

LavaDevil94 · 12-12-2003, 06:14 PM

did you try the free winex? of course, that doesnt have the install shield emulation... still, you might have more luck.

TheOneAndOnlySM · 12-25-2003, 11:24 PM

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

iaredam · 12-25-2003, 11:45 PM

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.

Mega Man X · 01-01-2004, 01:31 PM

I've tried it here, but running from an installed Windows Partition. It crashed

sxa · 01-02-2004, 01:06 AM

I think WINE would slow down the game.. I tried WINE with Winamp 3 and it really slowed down the app...

miaviator278 · 01-06-2004, 10:36 PM

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..

sxa · 01-07-2004, 12:00 AM

I assume you guys are using WineX and not just wine? I guess there is a difference..

FYI: miaviator278, you are brave guy.. and I wanted to say thank you for fighting for our country..

LavaDevil94 · 01-07-2004, 02:05 PM

winex is more likely to work, but ive gotten some directx games to work with wine, but not with winex, like soldat and GeneRally.

sxa · 01-07-2004, 09:20 PM

I still don't know the difference between winex and wine...

LavaDevil94 · 01-07-2004, 10:09 PM

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.