https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45375
--- Comment #23 from Connor McAdams conmanx360@gmail.com --- (In reply to halome from comment #22)
I'm not sure there's a legal way to get a copy of this game anymore, and with the Master Chief collection coming out on steam soon, this version of the game may end up being kind of pointless.
I think this wine needs to be patched to make this game work and the reason is because of MCC coming to steam soon. The issues that Halo Online has with wine is not the menus but gameplay which is essentially the Halo 3 engine which will be included in MCC. I would like to see Halo Online work platinum or gold before MCC comes out so that MCC has less issues in Wine and the Halo 3 engine in MCC will work in wine. By fixing these issues this can also fix other halo engines in wine such as Halo Reach engine.
Me and many would like to play MCC on our linux machines. I would like MCC to fully work someday with all of its engines, Halo CE, Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo ODST, Reach and Halo 4 in wine.
Thing is, I don't think they're going to be using DX9 on MCC. It should all be DX12, at least that's what has been speculated. We'll find out once it's released I guess.
Though this is all kind of off topic. We should probably only discuss the issue at hand in this thread.