Halo: The Master Chief Collection (976730)

[trymeouteh]

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Halo: The Master Chief Collection
• Steam AppID of the game: 976730

System Information

• GPU:
• Driver/LLVM version:
• Kernel version:
• Link to full system information report as Gist:
• Proton version:

I confirm:

• that I haven't found an existing compatibility report for this game.

Symptoms

Game will not launch

Reproduction

1. Start Game
   2.Will not show Microsoft Login Prompt

Notes

I do not have this game but I got the details of this issue from this reddit post.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/c6xh55/halo_reach_through_proton/

[warriormaster12]

I can also confirm that the issue is that Microsoft login prompt doesn show up.

[kisak-valve]

Hello @warriormaster12, please add PROTON_LOG=1 %command% to the game's launch options and drag and drop the generated $HOME/steam-$APPID.log into the comment box.

[flibitijibibo]

Dug into the latest Flighting build. Notes:

• EAC binaries in the root folder
• Appears to use UE4's Chromium support?!
• Audio is FMOD-based EDIT: Still references XAudio2, fsbs are just l18n...
• Movies appear to be Bink2 this time around (previously it was WMA)

The game boots but fails to prep Xbox Live, so not much has changed.

steam-1064280.log

[d10sfan]

Also tried, goes to the menu screen but get error when trying to proceed further.

[elken]

+1 comments don't extend the discussion. Just use thumbs up.

I've tried adding win10 and dxvk to no avail, maybe dependant on some gfwl libs?

[trymeouteh]

I do not have the beta but I heard this game is supported for Windows 7. Maybe try setting the wine config to Windows 7 to get the Xbox Live part to work?

[d10sfan]

I do not have the beta but I heard this game is supported for Windows 7. Maybe try setting the wine config to Windows 7 to get the Xbox Live part to work?

It looks like the default is Windows 7 from what I saw in winecfg. I attempted to set to Windows 10 and got the same result.

Like you said, since the game is supposed to work under Windows 7, it seems it would have the necessary pieces to login to Xbox Live in the actual game, but not sure.

Maybe there's something wrong with the loading of CEF itself to show the login window. Are there any necessary manually installed libraries for the webview to work for other games/tools?

[flibitijibibo]

CEF by design is pretty much 100% standalone, though lots of files get involved even in a minimal package. Where things get bad, in my experience, is the Chromium subprocesses. I have zero evidence that it’s relevant here.

[flibitijibibo]

Apparently I’m insanely far behind on my MCC news. The core UI engine is actually UE4 now! So it’s UE4 at the base with each game’s original engine running on top. This is likely because Scaleform’s dead, so they had to move to something...

If there exists a UE4 CEF demo app, that might be a good thing to test with upstream Wine.

[d10sfan]

It's possible they are using the ue4 web browser (https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/UMG/UserGuide/WidgetTypeReference/WebBrowser/index.html), unless they did their own implementation of the cef integration.

It could also be useful to try cef by itself. From what I remember these packages have example cef browsers that could be useful for determining compatibility: http://opensource.spotify.com/cefbuilds/index.html

I saw that a while back people were recommending using wine staging patches for cef to work properly in wine, not sure if that's still the case

[d10sfan]

As an experiment, I took the Windows 64-bit sample app from cefbuilds and ran it on the following:

• wine-4.13 - webview portion blank
• Proton 4.11 - webview portion blank
• Proton-GE 4.14 - webview loads, trying to go anywhere but google redirects back, may be limitation of sample app
• Proton-tgk 4.12 - webview loads, trying to go anywhere but google redirects back, may be limitation of sample app

The last two proton forks look to provide the wine staging patches, with some of them probably helping with getting CEF to work. I tried MCC with Proton-GE 4.14, and got a different result, where pressing enter caused a "Fatal Error" popup to occur. I've attached the logs below, it may be getting a bit closer: steam-1064280.log

[craftycodie]

This issue is for Halo: The Master Chief Collection - INSIDER, app id 1064280 and should probably be updated to keep pre-release issues separate from release issues.

[flibitijibibo]

There does appear to be a lot of OutputDebugString calls for HttpClient, with the addresses and functions lining up with this library here:

https://github.com/microsoft/libHttpClient

Kind of makes me wonder what the CEF part is all about if the Xbox Live sign-in is going through this instead.