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absent-sapphire

Launching Halo results in Error saying DX9 not installed. Installing DX9 says newer is already on.

Hello, I am pretty much noob, but have tried to research and search as best I could. I am trying to run Halo Combat Evolved, from 2004 on my SteamDeck. Its the same copy Ive used in Windows for many many years, and is patched for No CD launch. When copying it over to SteamDeck, and using either Lutris or Heroic, I get the same results. The game launches, and then tells me it cant continue because game requires DX 9.0b. From what I can tell, the Wine package has DX9 already installed. If I try to install DX9 from the Halo install CD, it tells me it cannot continue because a newer version of DirectX is already installed. Im using Proton 7-53. Is there a different proton I should be using?
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extended-salmon
extended-salmon3y ago
Don't use proton Use wine-ge
absent-sapphire
absent-sapphireOP3y ago
ok, Ill try that now, thank you Like Wine-7.0-GE-5-LoL ? HOLY CRAP! It worked!!! The screen is rotated, but Ill fix that! Thank you thank you!!!
extended-salmon
extended-salmon3y ago
don't use the LoL version
absent-sapphire
absent-sapphireOP3y ago
no? Thats what I downloaded and it appears to be working... in game mode the resolution rotation fixed itself.. in fact Im playing campaign mode right now
extended-salmon
extended-salmon3y ago
it's not recommended go ask glorious eggroll you should use the normal GE version 7-41 or whatever the latest one is
absent-sapphire
absent-sapphireOP3y ago
ok Thank you

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