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chouithegewy
Profile Joined April 2016
United States25 Posts
May 25 2018 04:13 GMT
#1
Hey guys,
I'm trying to run Starcraft Broodwar on Linux and I want to be able to play on battle.net. I've done a little research and can't come to the conclusion of whether or not it can be done (now--that is). I'm on Debian Stretch and tried using Wine and Play on Linux without success (aw).

Are any of you laddering on linux? If so, how so?

choui
Don't worry, be happy! (chilos)
LG)Sabbath
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
Argentina3024 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-05-25 05:02:04
May 25 2018 05:01 GMT
#2
There are Docker images with scbw + wine so you can either use those or look at how they are set up

https://hub.docker.com/r/nidup/starcraft/

PS. I haven't tried it myself, I run Windows
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Caspas
Profile Joined April 2011
Germany157 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-05-25 05:12:23
May 25 2018 05:11 GMT
#3
It's definitely possible to ladder SC:BW and SC:R on linux. I'm doing the latter.
I'm using playonlinux. It seems the windows and the wine version are the most important parameters to even start the game.
Never had any problems with online play in any game, as soon as i got the game to run that is.
chouithegewy
Profile Joined April 2016
United States25 Posts
May 25 2018 06:13 GMT
#4
The Docker images from that site are for older versions of the game though! So I doubt it would let me play on b.net.

What wine and windows are you using, Caspas?

I was able to install, but not play via playonlinux using wine 2.21 staged and windows 2003. I get an error: "a required DLL could not be found" when I try to run the game.

Frustrating...just tried posting on the b.net forums.
Don't worry, be happy! (chilos)
iFU.pauline
Profile Joined September 2009
France1583 Posts
May 25 2018 08:50 GMT
#5
I have been trying many times on a Debian stretch, wine and virtualbox, nothing remotely playable. A working config will depend a lot on the system and hardware so...
No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere, I see Heaven's glories shine, And Faith shines equal arming me from Fear
Qikz
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United Kingdom12022 Posts
May 25 2018 09:44 GMT
#6
rOuta ladders on linux, let me see if I can get him for you!
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Caspas
Profile Joined April 2011
Germany157 Posts
May 25 2018 09:56 GMT
#7
If I was at home I could tell u my settings, but I am at work like 5 more hours.
Ikirouta
Profile Blog Joined November 2017
Finland727 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-05-25 11:03:38
May 25 2018 11:03 GMT
#8
I play on Ubuntu 18.04, Wine staging 2.14. Everything works perfectly.

Get wine staging 2.14
Use winecfg to set windows ver to 7
Install corefonts, vcrun2005 vcrun2008 and vcrun2015 using winetricks
Install Blizzard App
Make a folder called starcraft in your wine program files directory and locate it using the bnet app.
The bnet app thinks your starcraft install is broken and will start fixing it
Once its fixed you should be able to launch it and play.

Dunno if I remembered to explain everything, if you run into trouble just ask for help. Iopg, gestalt and me have had no trouble with remastered + wine.
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Caspas
Profile Joined April 2011
Germany157 Posts
May 25 2018 15:02 GMT
#9
On May 25 2018 20:03 Ikirouta wrote:
I play on Ubuntu 18.04, Wine staging 2.14. Everything works perfectly.

Get wine staging 2.14
Use winecfg to set windows ver to 7
Install corefonts, vcrun2005 vcrun2008 and vcrun2015 using winetricks
Install Blizzard App
Make a folder called starcraft in your wine program files directory and locate it using the bnet app.
The bnet app thinks your starcraft install is broken and will start fixing it
Once its fixed you should be able to launch it and play.

Dunno if I remembered to explain everything, if you run into trouble just ask for help. Iopg, gestalt and me have had no trouble with remastered + wine.


In case routas setup doesnt work:
I'm on Ubuntu 16.04, no vcrun2015 here, wine 2.21-staging with Windows 10.. The latter is bold because on my system Win7 stopped working a few weeks ago and switching to Win10 required me to also switch wine version, dont remember which i had previously, tho.
gl hf
kli6891
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
United States143 Posts
May 25 2018 16:10 GMT
#10
I am using Wine 3.8 staging (Windows 10) on Ubuntu 18.04 and could play SC:R. However, I cannot host games (this happens on my other computer as well, with almost the same setup).
chouithegewy
Profile Joined April 2016
United States25 Posts
May 25 2018 17:17 GMT
#11
On May 25 2018 20:03 Ikirouta wrote:
Get wine staging 2.14
Use winecfg to set windows ver to 7
Install corefonts, vcrun2005 vcrun2008 and vcrun2015 using winetricks
Install Blizzard App
Make a folder called starcraft in your wine program files directory and locate it using the bnet app.
The bnet app thinks your starcraft install is broken and will start fixing it
Once its fixed you should be able to launch it and play.


Tried this. Got the game downloading. On shitty wifi. Will report back!
Don't worry, be happy! (chilos)
Moataz
Profile Joined January 2018
Egypt267 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-05-25 17:41:06
May 25 2018 17:39 GMT
#12
Its also possible to run SC on Virtual Box, despite the OS you have. I successfully ran SC FULL SCREEN on VBox running Windows XP (the host was 8.1). There is a VBox version for Linux Debian of course.
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chouithegewy
Profile Joined April 2016
United States25 Posts
May 25 2018 19:24 GMT
#13
Installed game. Runs. Created a bot game on battle.net. Everything seems like it's working! Thanks, guys.
Don't worry, be happy! (chilos)
KameZerg
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Sweden1767 Posts
February 16 2022 14:49 GMT
#14
I installed battle.net and bw remastered threw lutris, everything seems to work fine except for one thing my minimap box keeps getting pulled down to the right corner, I don't really have any control of it for some weird reason. Does anyone know why that can be? Thanks.
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jchassoul
Profile Joined February 2019
Costa Rica72 Posts
February 16 2022 16:21 GMT
#15
Sloth#0067 add me on discord I can help
The limits of my language means the limits of my world. — The Overmind
Ikirouta
Profile Blog Joined November 2017
Finland727 Posts
Last Edited: 2022-02-16 23:34:23
February 16 2022 23:27 GMT
#16
On February 16 2022 23:49 KameZerg wrote:
I installed battle.net and bw remastered threw lutris, everything seems to work fine except for one thing my minimap box keeps getting pulled down to the right corner, I don't really have any control of it for some weird reason. Does anyone know why that can be? Thanks.


i don't get what u mean, ur minimap is swapping sides? or you can't control your cursor? sounds like a cursor capture problem?
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iFU.pauline
Profile Joined September 2009
France1583 Posts
February 17 2022 08:37 GMT
#17
For me game works perfectly using https://wiki.winehq.org/Ubuntu
No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere, I see Heaven's glories shine, And Faith shines equal arming me from Fear
AleXoundOS
Profile Joined January 2011
Georgia457 Posts
Last Edited: 2022-02-21 07:41:15
February 21 2022 07:35 GMT
#18
SC:R works flawlessly under wine, given:
  • wine staging is used
  • not very old graphics card (at least Intel HD Graphics 4000)
  • "Hardware Cursor" is enabled
  • "Real Time Lightning" is disabled (unless maybe a very powerful PC is used)

If you're an owner of a high (60+ fps) framerate monitor, configuring DXVK (DirectX-over-Vulkan) might make sense (but I haven't tried yet).


As for ShieldBattery, it's not yet working, but I'm sure it's possible, just need some efforts...
https://bwapi.github.io - An API for interacting with Starcraft: Broodwar (1.16.1)
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