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Halo Online

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Halo Online
Halo Online cover
Developers
343 Industries
Saber Interactive
Windows Microsoft Game Studios
Publishers
Microsoft Studios
Innova Systems
Engines
Halo Engine
Release dates
Windows 2015
Halo Online on Wikipedia
Halo
Halo: Combat Evolved 2003
Halo 2 2007
Halo: Spartan (series)
Halo Online 2015*
Halo 5: Forge 2016
Halo Wars (series)
Halo Recruit 2017
Halo: The Master Chief Collection (series)
Halo Infinite 2021

Key points

The official release under Microsoft Studios for Russian players was cancelled in 2015. However, Halo Online is playable worldwide with the ElDewrito Mod, which is now essential for play. As such all guides on this page are in reference to the aforementioned mod.

General information

Halo Waypoint - Official Beta Launch of Halo Online testing under Microsoft Studios in Russia
ElDewrito.com - Official Page of ElDewrito Mod
Blog.ElDewrito.com - Official blog for the ElDewrito Mod
r/HaloOnline Subreddit for Halo Online and ElDewrito Help and Discussion.
ElDewrito Source Code - ElDewrito Mod Repository

Availability

Not officially available. Requires the ElDewrito Mod to play the game.[1]

Essential improvements

ElDewrito

Provides Bug Fixes and Quality of Life improvements including 21:9 Support, extended FOV Slider and Raw Mouse input.
Players can host Multiplayer and Forge Games with up to 16 Players with this Mod.
The ElDewrito Mod's development has been put on hold until further notice, due to discussions with Microsoft regarding the reverse-engineering of their Intellectual Property - Game can still be played in spite of this just no further updates.[2]
Installing the ElDewrito Mod[3]
  1. Obtain the "Halo Online 1.106708 cert_ms23" archive.
    Safe Checksums for Base ms23 files:
    • MD5: 5ae9e3d0a4952686cedb7d7261ad6c1
    • SHA1: 1293f856720af0685adadcc4082c9f97e078a4fa
    • SHA256: 4674454e0e973573e43c4025e894820523ab4e665108248dc9eb1c9a5a09ec1
  2. Download the ElDewrito Updater which can be found on the r/HaloOnline Get Started Page.
  3. Extract the Base Halo Online files that were obtained earlier, and then the Updater archive into the same directory.
  4. Run <path-to-game>\updater.exe and update to 0.6.0.
  5. Once updated the user will need to run the Updater again to update to 0.6.1.
  6. Launch <path-to-game>\eldorado.exe to play the game.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\dewrito_prefs.cfg[Note 1]

Video settings

In order to access game settings on keyboard and mouse, press Home from the main menu.
Can only select Resolutions up to Desktop Resolution of the Primary Monitor
In-game general video settings.
In-game general video settings.
In-game advanced video settings.
In-game advanced video settings.
In-game general game settings.
In-game general game settings.

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Input settings

In-game general control settings.
In-game general control settings.
In-game general gamepad settings - also showing the "Halo Online Default" gamepad scheme.
In-game general gamepad settings - also showing the "Halo Online Default" gamepad scheme.

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Controller presets

Halo 3

Halo Reach

Halo 4

Audio settings

In-game general audio settings.
In-game general audio settings.

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Localizations

ElDewrito UI and In-game HUD does not respond to Language changes and remains in English.
Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Portuguese
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
4 Versus
Start the game with -multiinstance parameter.
LAN play
16 Versus
Online play
16 Versus

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
See this Guide for how to set up a Dedicated Server for Halo Online's ElDewrito Mod
Self-hosting
Direct IP
Open the console (~) and use connect followed by the IP and port.

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP 11775, 11777
UDP 11774
This game supports Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) for automatic port configuration.

Issues fixed

The best way to report game issues to the ElDewrito community and get assistance, is via the mod's latest bug report thread.

Crash on Nvidia RTX chipsets

The game has a bug whereby Contrails cause the game to crash, notably on RTX GPUs.[4]
Replace binkw32.dll with this version
  1. Download the Unofficial Mod Patch which fixes the RTX GPU crashes when the game uses contrails.
  2. Navigate to <path-to-game> and replace the binkw32.dll with this one.

Notes

Tested on a Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080ti on Windows 10 build 1809 [5]
If the player has used the previous version of this fix, they must also download the original mtndew.dll file - which is also included in the link - and replace the modified mtndew.dll with the original one.

Game is too bright on Intel HD Graphics

Enable the Bloom (Brightness) Patch in the game's Advanced Video settings, and restart the game.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9 DirectX9 Extended
Shader Model support 3
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics Havok
Interface Scaleform, CEF
Cutscenes Bink Video
Multiplayer 4Game, ElDewrito ElDewrito Mod is a Requirement to play after shutdown by Microsoft

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) Vista
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
Equivalent AMD CPU
System memory (RAM) 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 4 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 9600 GT
Equivalent AMD GPU
512 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Shader model 3.0 support
Controller XInput Compatible

Notes

  1. When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References