Starcraft on Linux

iG....CoolT

Canada193 Posts

December 26 2005 08:21 GMT

This is a very nerdy topic, but let's see what we can do about this.

As a Linux administrator myself, I'm planning to install the new Mandriva on my computer, as soon as I can find enough free space on my discs to do another partition, or as soon as I buy a new disc. Should be soon anyway.

I haven't tried Starcraft on Linux yet because I had big doubt it would ever work with Fedora Core. Until now I was always booting my Starcraft from my Windows XP partition anyway.

With the new Mandriva, you can run some things that ran into XP without problems. It's a big improvement in Linux.

Does any of you have ever tried Starcraft on Linux? Did you have any problems / troubleshooting? Do you need a certain patch or complementary program to run that?

Thx

iG....CoolT

Canada193 Posts

December 26 2005 08:31 GMT

TTY 7 Starcraft

TTY 1 Maphack1
TTY 2 Ressource hack
TTY 3 Disconnect hack

etc etc...

Seriously, I expect it should run a lot better than in Windows.

omgbnetsux

United States3749 Posts

December 26 2005 08:59 GMT

I have never tried to install SC on Linux, but I would be interested in any progress you make. I am currently in the middle of trying out various distros - I might have to throw Mandriva into the mix.

Ebenol

Sweden1983 Posts

December 26 2005 09:07 GMT

I've done it. B.net was kind of iffy, sometimes you'd only see the text. It worked great once you got into the actual game though.

It was just normal Wine with some configuration thing I found. This was a really long time ago so it probably doesn't need the configuration.

wasted

Germany1789 Posts

December 26 2005 09:15 GMT

On December 26 2005 17:31 iG....CoolT wrote:
Seriously, I expect it should run a lot better than in Windows.

better how?

inkblot

United States1250 Posts

December 26 2005 09:37 GMT

I'd think Wine emulation would be fine, but I'm pretty ignorant about Linux. I don't really see how it would work better though, are you implying that hacks wouldn't work on a Linux user?

iG....CoolT

Canada193 Posts

December 26 2005 11:12 GMT

Yeah I'm probably gonna try Wine.

WGT)Dknight

United States114 Posts

December 26 2005 12:22 GMT

I had a lot of issues when I used Wine. For the $10 a month fee, it sucked. Half the time I couldn't see text in the channel and the text on "channel" "create" "join" "ladder" "exit" was shifted to the right. Colors were off. It was a huge mess and since then, I haven't used SC on Linux. This was about 6 months ago so maybe some progress was made.

iG....CoolT

Canada193 Posts

December 26 2005 13:30 GMT

Wine is free if you don't take the service, is that still right?

yknarf

United States90 Posts

December 26 2005 13:34 GMT

#10

I think you are talking about cedega or something, wine itself is free. I got starcraft to install on wine but X wouldn't change resolutions properly. If i had that fixed then sc would work.

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