[976730] Halo: Master Chief Collection

[cecilia-sanare]

Known Issues

Co-op Support

Users will be disconnected with an error of Game Error unless the following is done:

$ wget "https://download.microsoft.com/download/9/3/F/93FCF1E7-E6A4-478B-96E7-D4B285925B00/vc_redist.x64.exe"
$ cabextract vc_redist.x64.exe
$ cabextract a10
$ cp ucrtbase.dll <steam-dir>/steamapps/compatdata/976730/pfx/drive_c/windows/system32/

The other suggested solution:

$ protontricks 976730 vcrun2022

Doesn't seem to resolve the issue and also prompts the user to navigate through an installation dialog which isn't ideal.

Related Issues

• Halo: The Master Chief Collection (976730) ValveSoftware/Proton#2907

[SeongGino]

For future reference, inserting -q after the steam game ID will run the winetricks verb installation in unattended mode, like as such:

$ protontricks 976730 -q vcrun2022

However, I was wrong in my assumption that the verb installed ucrtbase.dll, so my suggestion could be disregarded and the original manual library transplant method is what should be used - even so, it may be safer to have the rest of the runtime installed alongside the base just in case, since cherrypicking individual libraries isn't the best idea imo.

[kekkoudesu]

Doing this:

cp ucrtbase.dll <steam-dir>/steamapps/compatdata/976730/pfx/drive_c/windows/system32/

Results in Steam failing to launch Halo saying the ucrtbase.dll file is missing. The next time it launches, presumably having replaced the file I copied with the original symlink.

I can't test whether co-op works or not because I have no friends...that will play Halo with me today. Something to test much, much later.

[cecilia-sanare]

@SeongGino Oh I 100% agree.

I mostly opened this issue to track what I’ve gotten to work and to hopefully come up with a better solution. I don’t have any plans to implement the workaround I mentioned above into Protontweaks CLI or API just because of how fragile it’d be.