Halo 2: Project Cartographer on Steam Deck?

Sep 17, 2022
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husky3g
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Any updated guides for installing the game and running it through Proton/Lutris/Wine? Everything seems to suggest various fixes, etc for certain Linux variants but so far it's pretty rough to find any info on installing the game on Steam Deck. I'd love to play this all of the time with my Deck but I can't for the life of me get audio working in the menus or in-game - it seems to be plagued with silent audio no matter what fixes I try online.
 
Sep 17, 2022
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husky3g
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I finally got it sorted. Had to install the game via the newest Lutris script but download the 1.8.1 version from the downloads section, then change Lutris to use "System 7.0" under Wine version and it works great. Took me a while since I had tried the same with the latest version of Project Cartographer but for whatever reason, that script only allows you to install 1.8.1.zip and you have to manually update it through the PC menu once you are in-game.

I'm not sure exactly how this fixes the audio issue, but it does.
 
Dec 11, 2022
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Just want to update here. Fought with this all day on my steam deck. On my desktop build, on arch linux, this worked for me:

For steam deck:
https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/t8al0i
Need to allow your steam deck to get packages from pacman.
Basically, install wine and winetricks via pacman and install lutris via flatpak.
Download the h2pc_installer_X.X.zip from http://www.h2maps.net/Cartographer/Installer/

With wine installed, double click the setup EXE and install it as you would normally on Windows.

Follow the video to install wmp10, this is required to get audio working.
Note: if you get an error while trying to install wmp10, I got an error saying "this is a 64-bit wine setup" or something like that, this link will help:

https://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=27296
rm -rf /home/(username)/.wine
WINEARCH=win32 wineboot

rm -rf is a dangerous command if you don't know what you're doing, this will completely blow out your .wine directory, so if you have other things you need in there, be weary.

You should install litrus-fshack-7.2, not sure if required, but I installed it for good measure. I didn't do any of the configurations in litrus either in the video.

In gaming mode, if you get a unique identifiers error when signing in, join the discord and request help in the help channel, a dev can help you. It has something to do with steam deck pulling wine 7.0-rc5 as opposed to a regular arch linux build pulling 7.22. Might have something to do with the steam OS image having different mirrorlists for pacman potentially, and wine 7.0-rc5 and gaming mode not populating your identifiers correctly..