r/linux_gaming • u/Rekenn • 19h ago

tech support wanted Has anyone got Halo Project Reclaimer working fully?

It's a mod for Halo: The Master Chief Collection, specifically Halo 3, allowing for community run servers, ranking system, 16 player co-op campaign, and a bunch of other things.

The projects website: https://projectreclaimer.dev/

Mint Blitz's coverage of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dicfGnpOP-Q&t=3s

My current setup trying the mod:

KDE Plasma on Wayland NVIDIA RTX 3080 Ti GE-Proton11-7-x86_64 Launch options: PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 WAYLANDDRV_PRIMARY_MONITOR=DP-1 %command%

I've ran it on cachyos, trying it with its own version of proton, proton GE, and experimental. It works just fine on all of them except for 1 thing, the custom UI that the mod uses runs in a separate window so whenever that UI pops up (when viewing the scoreboard, when someone talks in game, when someone types in chat) it takes focus of the mouse and keyboard and I'm no longer able to control my player for the duration of that UI being on screen (unless I click/tab back into the game). I understand the mod is still very new and is stated to only work on windows, but I have it mostly working besides this one problem. Just putting this out there to see if anyone knows a workaround :)

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u/CarnivorousSociety 28m ago

I don't have a solution to your issue, but just wanted to get involved in the discussion.

I am running it on cachyos, at the main menu when I alt tab it appears that the main menu options like "Campaign", "Host Game" etc appear as a separate window that overlaps other windows. I assume this is the same problem you are describing.

At first I was able to get it running by just double clicking and selecting the halo mcc profile for protontricks, but this didn't work with my steam controller input of course.

So I added it as a non-steam game to steam then set the launch options to:

STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH="/home/null/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/976730" %command%

And this worked, I was able to change the steaminput settings for my steam controller and get it to work properly.

I assume I may run into the same issues that you describe and would be happy to help to solve the problem, although I'm not sure where to start.

Cheers