HWXR-Release

Release versions of the PC VR HWXR mod for Halo CE designed to be run via WinlatorXR PC containers

Credits

Thanks to LivingFray for the awesome Halo CE VR mod for SteamVR, and for sharing its source code with the world.

Additional thanks to these contributors to the LivingFray Halo CE VR mod:

97saundersj, slipperfish, codyherzog, HaMM4R, teddybear082, kyanite-rock, s-ilent, TheKrisSodroski

Note: This is a Halo CE PC VR mod that makes breaking changes from the parent mod it's based on, please do not spam any of the above developers with requests or issues related to this conversion!

Thanks to Luboš for his work on WinlatorXR , Team Beef for their support of his work, and everyone else who had contributed to portable PC gaming via Winlator in all its various versions and forks.

Thanks to GmoLargey for his testing and tutorial videos!

Thanks to ☆- Tee -☆ from the TeamBeef Discord for the idea of the combined Use + Reload button mode (in the ConfTool)

Thanks to gibst4r from the TeamBeef Discord for the idea of combined 6DOF motion plus a Non-VR mode (in the ConfTool)

WinlatorXR API conversion (of the VR conversion by LivingFray, of the original PC version of Halo: Combat Evolved by Gearbox/Microsoft Games) by Bigelowed

Installation

Usage of this mod requires a full retail copy of Halo CE for PC

WinlatorXR can be installed from its SideQuestVR page or its GitHub page

Option 1: HWXR Setup EXE

This is the recommended way to install HWXR and is designed to run directly inside WinlatorXR (once you have installed Wine Mono Installer from the System Tools menu), extract the installer to your Downloads folder on your Quest

Install Halo CE Retail edition inside of your container, then run HWXR_Setup.exe

Option 2: HWXR "Release Only" ZIP

This ZIP file can be extracted over top of a working Halo CE Retail install with the 1.0.10 patch for PC (not Custom Edition), I recommend using 7-Zip directly inside your container to do this, or installing Halo CE Retail to your Downloads folder and extracting the ZIP over that

In addition to the Wine Mono Installer in the System Tools menu required for Option 1, do these steps:

• Copy these DLLs from a Windows PC to C:/Windows/System32 and C:/Windows/SysWow64 directories in your container:
• ---> vcruntime140.dll
• ---> msvcp140.dll
• ---> webservices.dll
• ---> ws2_32.dll
• ---> ws2help.dll
• Install the Visual C++ All-In-One Installer on your container
• Install the OpenAL Installer on your container

Final step: Shortcut configuration and running

• Right-click and Create Shortcut to your Halo.exe file if it doesn't already exist
• Exit the container and go to the Shortcuts section of WinlatorXR
• Edit the shortcut to a Custom resolution of 1400x1400
• Run the Halo EXE shortcut directly from this screen

WinlatorXR Controls:

• Left Stick - Move / UI arrows
• Right Stick - Turn left/right
• Right Stick Up - Switch Weapon
• Right Stick Down - Melee Attack
• Left Grip - Jump
• Left Trigger - Zoom / Scope or ENTER for UI panels
• Right Grip - Grenade
• Right Trigger - Shoot
• Left Click - Crouch (does not move the camera vertical position)
• Right Click - NONE (WinlatorXR menu)
• Left Menu Button - Escape / Menu (hold to recenter currently not implemented)
• X - Switch Grenades
• Y - Flashlight
• B - Reload
• A - Action

See the full project README

HWXR Conf Tool

In the VR subfolder of your Halo CE install will be the HWXR_ConfEdit.exe tool, be sure to use this to tweak your experience to your liking!