Running the MCC mod tools on Linux with WINE

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I have seen a few people use WINE around here so here is a short guide on you need to do in order to get these tools to work.

I have tested this on wine-staging 6.20 and have not tried any previous version.

 

You will need the following dependencies, the first two can be installed with winetricks.

 

Visual Studio 2015 runtime: winetricks vcrun2015

MSXML 3.0: winetricks msxml3

 

Finally you need an original "D3DCompiler_47.dll". This file is only available from windows itself, and what's worse copies from Windows 10 or Windows11 will NOT WORK.

To get around this you need the version from Windows 8.1. For convenience I have attached them here.

 

For Halo CE and Halo 2:

D3DCompiler_47 32-bit

 

For Halo 3:

D3DCompiler_47 64-bit

 

Copy the DLL into the same directory as the mod tools and then set a DLL override in winecfg like so:

 

Halo Combat Evolved seems to be the most stable, the tools honestly run better than the old Gearbox versions. Halo 2 also seems to work well enough. Halo 3 unfortunately is not as stable, Guerilla crashes on open and the "tag test" build can sometimes randomly crash.

 

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