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Edit: About half-way down the page there is a mini-guide with some tips how to get BW to run smoothly under Wine. I will try to update it every now and then ...
I havent been playing SC for a long time, one reason being that I do all my work/play on Linux, but so far wasnt able to get SC to run satisfactorily, and dual boot just isnt sexy.
Recently I started fiddling with it again and, you won't believe it, I finally got BW running under Linux at native speed/smoothness (the ones who tried and failed will know what I mean).
So here's to those among you who chose a better OS and who had trouble getting SC to run nicely, and to those who have been stuck to Windope for the same reason. As of Wine 0.9.47 SC runs perfectly (battle.net, single player not tested), provided you have some sort of 3D OpenGL able graphics card (anything not older than 5 years should do). Give it a try! As far as other software (office, graphics, software development or whatever) is concerned, as well as security, stability, price and freedom, Linux has always had the edge, just the game department was lacking. If that was holding you back, give it a try!
If there's interest I can give some advice how to configure things or post some config files. In summary, Wine 0.9.47 works in conjuction with proper video card drivers, VirtualBox doesnt work for SC due to lack of 8bit color depth support (but it's absolutely great for anything else virtual), VMWare is supposed to work, but I havent tried myself.
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no but seriously this should make a few people happy
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hey there, i had a question for you about the new version of wine and running SC
so i got it to run okay with previous versions (sometimes the sound would screw up, but nothing a quick restart wouldn't solve) but the main thing was watching replays was slow. it seemed like it just couldn't render it up to 16x (it pretty much stuck at around 4x i'd say). is that still slow in the new wine or is that improved?
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Yeah, its been able to run pretty fine for a while. Im one of the maintainers on the winehq site.
Its battle.net thats the problem, those pesky black windows...
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With cedega, BW used to work "ok" for me.
But i was always unsure wether it runs full speed or 99% Speed. Always bad feeling :/
I always used the nice -n 19 command to speed things up...
Now.. i will try Wine 0.9.47 with my Linux-Laptop, though it has no 3D-Card... are you sure this is needed?
And yes, i would like to see your config files 
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this is cool, it really runs at normal speed? the only thing that was holding me back from running exclusively on gutsy gibbon was bw. thanks!
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could you post the settings/tweaks you had to do?
i'd appreciate it
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can others post their bnet experience under wine+sc? i've gotten it to work too, just not w/ bnet
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for my wine build (i'm using 0.9.37) i think bnet actually works. it's just that the graphics are screwy, but if you know your way around the functionality is preserved.
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Good luck if you want to play ICCUP.
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Ive tried and failed xD, im going to PM you to ask for some kind of advices :D
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i've gotten it to work under 64 bit ubuntu gutsy. it's still a bit choppy, but not very playable. it could just be the crappy ati drivers though.
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I got mine working a couple weeks ago. Stats:
IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad T60
Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Faun
Working on LAN, B.net, and ICCUP at 100% speed, although the graphics in the lobby don't render correctly (a minor issue). Pretty awesome.
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Wow, that's more feedback than I had expected :D
I'll try to answer the questions (although I'm not at home at the moment, so config files will have to wait). Also, as with most things, your mileage may vary, and you may have to fiddle a bit to find the right way for you. However it's not too tricky, and my post was primarily intended as an encouragement to give it a shot. I'll try to be a bit more verbose than neccessary, so it can serve also other people in the future. Maybe others who also got it to work can also chip in, and we can stick this in the HowTo section on TL?
BW under WINE - Mini-HowTo
Contents:- Graphics drivers and hardware acceleration
- SC & Virtual Machines
- SC & Windows API Emulation
- Configuring WINE
- Making & mounting an image of your BW CD
- Required fonts for bnet
- WINE Registry tweaks (speedup)
- xorg.conf tweaks (speedup)
- Running SC/WINE on a seperate display
- Resolving mouse selection lag
- Hamachi on Linux
- BWChart under Wine
- ICCup Launcher under Wine
Ok, so here's what I did. Currently I am running Debian Lenny with Kernel 2.6.22, but distro should have little or no effect on this, and as far as I'm aware any 2.6 kernel should do. If in doubt, ask the wine maintainers who are also hanging out here (hint hint).
I have an NVidia GeForce FX 5200Go in my (old) laptop, so first I installed the appropriate drivers for that. Whether you have an NVidia or ATI card shouldnt matter, simply google around and find an appropriate how-to to install the appropriate driver with 3D acceleration. Instructions may vary depending on your distro, but there are many tutorials on the web.
Verify you have your drivers set up correctly by runnning glxinfo orglxinfo | grep render it should say 'Direct Rendering: Yes'. If not, try to fix that first. Another check is to run glxgears and look at what FPS you get. Depending on your CPU, if it's software rendering you ought to get an FPS or the order of magnitude of 100's, with hardware rendering (what you want) it should be in the 1000's. Also if you have an NVidia card, you should see the NVidia logo when the Xserver is started (eg after boot).
SC and virtual machines
Now as I said previously, there's 2 principal ways to run SC under Linux, one being emulation through wine/cedega/crossover, the other being virtualisation. Virtualisation may in principle be the way to go, but as I said VirtualBox whilst great and free (praise and discussion maybe in another thread), doesnt support 8bit colour depth (as of v1.5.2), so no SC on that. It's supposed to work under VMWare, but I havent tried this myself. If you have VMWare set up already, maybe give it a shot and let us know. WRT Xen I havent invested enough time to say anything much about it (comments appreciated).
SC and Windows API emulation
Now Emulation: SC/BW is supposed to work with wine as well as its derivatives (cedega, xover). Wine is free so I went with that, but if you plan on playing many games and would like to have some support, Cedega may be the way to go (doesnt cost much). Sidenote: If you're too stingy to spend $15 on Cedega, you can also build it yourself from CVS, but that'll take a bit longer than just a few min, be warned.
Ok, so I decided to go with Wine. My successful attempt was with Wine 0.9.47, but other versions may work as well. If your distro doesnt have it in its own repositories (yet), the Wine guys also maintain packages for all major distros over on their website. After installing Wine, the fiddling begins. Over on WineHQ there are many posts with things to try, so if things dont work, go look there. Most notably here and here. There's a lot of good advice there, but you may have to dig a bit deeper through all the posts and the replies to them at the bottom. I'll try to summarize the key things:
Configure Wine: run winecfg autodetect drives, and make sure your CDROM drive is set to 'cdrom' (advanced settings). You might also want to pick one of the older Windows versions to be emulated (like 9x, XP), although I'm not sure if it makes a difference. If you run into trouble with the CD not being found later or with other apps on wine, check that any auto-mounting on your system doesnt change mount points and wine doesnt know where to look. Also if you changed drive letters you may have to update the registry, instructions are on the wine website. Anyways, if you like SC/BW you probably want to make an image of your BW CD and mount that instead in the future instead of the CD. (I havent played with BWLauncher yet, maybe someone has experience...?).
BW without the CD
As of BW 1.15.2, making an image of the CD to play without it is no longer necessary, as you can copy the INSTALL.EXE files of the SC/BW CDs to your StarCraft directory and rename them StarCraft.mpq and BroodWar.mpq respectively. If you are low on HDD space you can also hunt around the web for a stripped down version of the install.exe files (w/o cinematics). The old instructions how to make an image are here:
+ Show Spoiler +***** Optional:To make an image of your Broodwar disc, first find out the device node of your CDROM drive. If you dont know, pop in the CD, mount it (or let automount/HAL/hotplug/etc take care of it), then run mount Find the /dev/whatever entry that corresponds to the mounted CD (probably something like /dev/cdrom or /dev/cd or /dev/sr0 etc ...). Then to make an image run dd if=/dev/yourcdnode of=/path/to/where/you/want/the/iso/broodwar.iso If it doesnt work for you, unmount the CD before running dd. Then to mount the iso to install or play SC run mount -o loop -t iso9660 /path/to/broodwar.iso /mount/point/of/cdrom . Of course you don't want to have anything mounted at this point already, and, if you have installed SC previously already, you either want to mount the iso to the mount point from which it was installed, or set up the new mount point in wine as a CD drive (using winecfg) and change the path to the SC CD in the Windope Registry (using regedit) - instructions are on the Wine Website. *****
Ok, now install SC with wine setup.exe then BW (also using setup.exe), then apply the latest patch manually after downloading it from http://www.battle.net. If you have SC already installed on a windows partition on your system, you dont need to reinstall it, but can run it from there.
Ok, time to run SC. If you have a fancy DE, you can probably run it from your start menue, otherwise wine StarCraft.exe will do. Out of the box, everything should work (except for the bnet chat area, which looks a bit bad), but likely gameplay will be a tad choppy. To speed things up many people recommend to increase priority for SC by starting it with nice -20 wine StarCraft.exe Give it a try, but in my case it didnt help.
Now the tweaks:
Font issues especially on bnet there may be problems with font rendering, and installing msttcorefonts will likely help the issue. There are some notes about changing the fonts included in the File section of xorg.conf to make a difference, but I couldnt verify that for my system.
Registry keys there are a bunch of registry keys you can add that can drastically improve performance, this will likely require correct configuration of your graphics drivers beforehand (see above). More info on these can be found over at winehq, my feeling is that these keys really are key, but the solution seems to be different for everyone, so you will have to try different combinations and see what you get. Anyways, run regedit to edit Wine's registry. There is an incomplete list of regkeys on the Wine WIKI. Note that there are two ways of adding them, either to HKEY_CURRENT_USER, which then applies to every program, or to HKEY_USER after making an application subdirectory, if you want the settings only to be applied for a particular application (b/c of conflicts with other apps). I'll go for the simpler way and added HKEY_CURRENT_USER (a.k.a HKCU)
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I think you should try the only the 2 keys DirectDrawRenderer = opengl and RenderTargetLockMode = readtex first and see what you get. If you get a black screen (but SC runs as sounds/menues work), try adding the other two keys. If things still don't work, try different options of DirectDrawRenderer ie dri or gdi or glsl in combination with and without the last two keys. In my case dri was the successful key, but for many it is opengl. I'll try to post a screenshot later.
I should also mention that the first time I attempted to use these registry keys, I was not successful. Although for some ppl it works, in my case, depending on the key combination, SC either crashed, ran fast but with a black screen (doh), or was horribly unstable, or horribly slow. I then went on to tweak my xorg.conf file. Make a backup of if before you even touch it!!! cp -p xorg.conf xorg.conf.mybak I'm not at home right now, so I cant post the file right now, but I will once I get home. From what I recall though, although the driver was properly configured and glxinfo and glxgears returned the desired result, there were no font entries in the FILES section, as well as no MODULES section at all, which I added manually with a list of modules to be loaded, among them glx. There also was another rendering option which I dont recall, but I will post the file. When tweaking the xorg.conf the fastet (albeit not most elegant way) to check things is after saving the modified file as xorg.conf, kill the xserver with ctrl+alt+backspace, and start it back up with startx to be sure the settings take effect.
Edit: So I'm back home and here are the relevant parts of my xorg.conf:
+ Show Spoiler +Section "Files"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
# path to defoma fonts
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "i2c"
Load "bitmap"
Load "ddc"
Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
Load "int10"
Load "vbe"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "NVIDIA FX GeForce Go5200"
Driver "nvidia"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "RenderAccel" "true"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "NVIDIA FX GeForce Go5200"
Monitor "Generic Monitor"
DefaultDepth 16
SubSection "Display"
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
...(contd)...
Things to take note of are (bold above): make sure font paths are correctly set up, and check that the X server doesnt complain when started; check the modules section, glx should definately be there, the rest I'm unsure; try using the RenderAccel option in your device section (which will probably look different from mine); try changing the default color depth to 16 bit (SC is 8bit, but for some reason that doesnt work properly, 16bit feels a bit faster than 24bit though, at least for me); a final note goes to dri: if you are using the DirectDrawRenderer option opengl in the wine registry, you probably want to comment out (# in front) dri from the modules section, and also comment out the whole DRI section. Again you may have to try different combos, but the above worked for me.
A note from 0xDEADBEEF (ATI graphics card):
+ Show Spoiler +
- Why do you write that 3D accel is needed? It's not. I used the "radeon" driver for a while (open source 2D only driver for ATI cards), so nothing with DRI etc., and it still works. Of course, because SC doesn't require 3D acceleration at all.
- I also never needed to start an X server specifically with 8 or 16bit color depth. 24 (= 32) is fine. There should be no need to change anything.
- The FontPath settings in xorg.conf are mostly irrelevant these days thanks to FreeType, which Wine also uses.
Sirakor's comment re 3D accel:
@0xDEADBEEF: you are correct that StarCraft does not need 3D acceleration. I did find however, that open source drivers (especially the nvidia one), can slow down the system on a whole (or X, rather) significantly. Now whilst it isnt directly linked to 3D accel, having working 3D acceleration means that you have your graphics card set up correctly, and that you will get the best speeds out of it, thus not slowing you down. I don't have an ATI card, so it may be different. Re the other pieces, again it's probably not necessary in all cases, but it did seem to help with my (rather old) hardware configuration, so I thought I'd put it here in case someone else also runs into problems with a standard setup.
I should say here that if you are new to Linux, be a bit careful when editing the xorg.conf. If you screw things up, this may leave you without a graphical interface, so make sure you know how to restore the backup we made earlier from the command line: cp -p xorg.mybak xorg.conf . Also check how your distribution handles manual changes to xorg.conf, as after manual changes no automatic updates of the file through the distros tools might occur anymore, unless you specifically tell it to.
There also are some reports of using wine on a second display/Xserver with 8bit colour depth - see the Wine website. Something like this should do the trick: xinit '/path/to/wine /path/to/StarCraft.exe' -bpp 8 --:1 That probably requires having an 8 bit section in your xorg.conf. I haven't played enough with this myself though, to be able to judge if it helps. Starting the new display as 640 x 480 may also be a good idea. Happy digging in the man pages of xinit, X, etc and let us know how it went.
Yet another edit: Some people experience some mouse selection lags at higher apm's, this may be caused by 3-button emulation (thanks to ChessWhiz for this comment)
On December 28 2007 08:37 ChessWhiz wrote:Show nested quote +On December 28 2007 06:47 borg wrote:you'll definitely notice some mouse selection lag if your apm is anywhere over 100. there's no good solution for this unfortunately. Have you tried turning off Emulate3Buttons in your xorg.conf? I had this problem, where the mousedown event was always delayed, and I solved it by disabling Emulate3Buttons. Basically, that option waits after a left-click event to see if you soon press a right-click so it can do middle-click emulation, and that waiting time causes the lag. Here's my mouse section of /etc/X11/xorg.confSection "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false" Option "EmulateWheel" "on" Option "EmulateWheelButton" "2" EndSection
Comment: If you use Sax2 or some other GUI config tool, you can probably also use that to turn off 3-Button Emulation instead of editing the xorg.conf.
So in summary for me the combination of
- proprietary graphics driver
- Wine 0.9.47
- Tweaking wine registry keys with regedit
- Installing msttcorefonts
- Tweaking xorg.conf
did the trick. If you found another way, let us know! At which point I should mention that on the winehq website there was a post about starting SC on a separate display with a modified color depth that worked for this guy (and it was confirmed by others too), so if the tweaks described here dont work for you, maybe look into that option first. See the two links to the SC pages on winehq and the text above.
Good luck and happy gaming!
Edit: If you're looking to get Hamachi working, try these links
http://files.hamachi.cc/linux/README (thanks to chiflutz for the link)
http://forums.hamachi.cc/viewtopic.php?t=16590 (thanks to JohnnyHazardous for the link)
More edits:
BWChart under Wine
BWChart does work under wine (WinXP mode), but you need to run winetricks and install vcrun6 (thanks to mjh for this comment), or download the following *.DLL files and drop them into your .wine/drive_c/windows/system32
- MSVCP60.DLL, d/l on bwchart website broken, get it here
- MFC42.DLL d/l link
- msvcrt.dll (included in mfc42.zip)
- msimg32.dll d/l link
ICCup Launcher under Wine
The ICCUP Launcher also works under Wine, just be sure to turn off the version check. Also, you may need to install the Gecko engine to be able to see the news (this is if it complains that you need to install IE).
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Regarding the questions above, I havent checked replays at x16 speed, I will do once I get home and let you know. With regard to the general experience, everything works as normal, the only exception being the chat area of bnet, where the background, advert banners, and button backgrounds are not drawn properly (it's mostly a lot of black). Despite that the chat area is fully functional, and whenever you're not in the bnet chat area everything works normally. Some people claim to have problems with updating SC through bnet, but that can be easily solved by downloading the patch from the bnet website and installing it with wine.
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Why not just install Windows?
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On October 25 2007 22:58 sc2_EXPERT wrote:
Why not just install Windows?
you wont last long here acting like that
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On October 25 2007 22:58 sc2_EXPERT wrote:
Why not just install Windows? one very fair reason is that he has to pay for it.
edit: I am one of those that hasn't manage to get sc/bw running under wine, thanks for the guide.
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thanks for the guide, it speeded things up a bit, but still choppy for me on ati x800 open source drivers (should have bought nvidia).
the "wine StarCraft.exe nice -20" command is backwards:
should be:
nice -20 wine *path to starcraft*
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excellent guide, ill give it a second shot and see what things i can add to it. thx
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@CoralReefer thanks for the correction, I changed it in my post above.
I also updated the post with some info about my xorg.conf, let us know if it helped one of you. Most notably you should try things with and without dri.
Replays I havent checked yet, but I will post back with my experiences.
Otherwise, I hope the above is helpful for someone - and if someone finds other solutions or corrections to the above please let us know.
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i just got it working on wine 0.9.59 (ubuntu 8.04). excellent guide thanks a bunch.
by the way - bwchart also works too. just had to run winetricks and install vcrun6.
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BW runs flawlessly under Wine or Cedega.
Some comments on that "mini howto" Sirakor posted:
- Why do you write that 3D accel is needed? It's not. I used the "radeon" driver for a while (open source 2D only driver for ATI cards), so nothing with DRI etc., and it still works. Of course, because SC doesn't require 3D acceleration at all.
- I also never needed to start an X server specifically with 8 or 16bit color depth. 24 (= 32) is fine. There should be no need to change anything.
- The FontPath settings in xorg.conf are mostly irrelevant these days thanks to FreeType, which Wine also uses.
- Creating an image from the CD is not necessary anymore (since patch 1.15.2)
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how much does Wine slow games like Half Life 2 or Bioshock down? Can I expect similar FPS as in Windows?
and if not, will that ever be possible?
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@0xDEADBEEF: you are correct that StarCraft does not need 3D acceleration. I did find however, that open source drivers (especially the nvidia one), can slow down the system on a whole (or X, rather) significantly. Now whilst it isnt directly linked to 3D accel, having working 3D acceleration means that you have your graphics card set up correctly, and that you will get the best speeds out of it, thus not slowing you down. I don't have an ATI card, so it may be different. Re the other pieces, again it's probably not necessary in all cases, but it did seem to help with my (rather old) hardware configuration, so I thought I'd put it here in case someone else also runs into problems with a standard setup.
Also thanks for the note regarding the CD image, I will edit it in the 'mini howto'.
Another side note: The ICCUP Launcher also works under Wine, just be sure to turn of the version check. Also, you may need to install the Gecko engine to be able to see the news (this is if it complains that you need to install IE).
@distant_voice: I don't have personal experience with these two games, but I have some friends who are happily playing Half Life 2 under Wine so that seems to work at least ok. It's also listed on the Platinum Top 10 List over at WineHQ AppDB, so this one is definitely worth a try. You may also find some answers to your questions in the comments of the AppDB.
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I've installed Starcraft-Broodwar on a Ubuntu 8.04 using PlayonLinux and Wine.
It works well for watching replays but I can't get on battlenet (have upgraded to 1.15.2). - Battle net is unable to recognise you game version.
And some keys don't work properly.
I can't do ctl + click to select all same units of a kind.
I can't select untits then shift + select units to add them to the group. (that one is really needed to play correctly)
Am I the only one to get these problems ?
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Beamo - for the upgrade to 1.15.2, did you upgrade manually, ie. did you download the patch from http://www.battle.net and run it with wine? Updating from within SC/BW may not work correctly, so in case you haven't already done so, you might want to reinstall SC, not connect to bnet, and patch manually. Let us know if it worked.
Regarding the ctrl/shift keys not working, I never had this problem, but I vaguely remember reading something about it, I will try to dig it up if I can.
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Maybe try to uninstall SC completely, and reinstall it again, paying close attention to do things in order (install SC with wine, then install BW with wine, then install the 1.15.2 patch for brood war with wine; make sure you don't use the patch for vanilla SC).
Re the shift/ctrl problem, I read another post over at WineHQ of another user who had the same problem on Ubuntu and Wine 0.9.59. He managed to fix it by upgrading Wine to 0.9.60. While you're at it, Wine 1.0-rc1 is out, and should be in the Ubuntu repos by now, so upgrade to this if you can.
Hope this helps ...
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I'll try it out as soon as I have a second.
Thx
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Oki going to Wine 1.0 rc-1 got rid of the shift and ctl not working problem !
Still can't get on B.net (now starcraft crashes instead of having an error) but I'll try a re-install soon.
Also have an other keyboard problem. I can name my units but can't call them back. I'm on a french keyboard so normally I can call them back using shift + number or just number if capslock is enabled. Here none work, I can only use alt + number (which kind of sucks  )
But I'll check the wine forums for that one.
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On May 21 2008 18:05 distant_voice wrote:
how much does Wine slow games like Half Life 2 or Bioshock down? Can I expect similar FPS as in Windows?
and if not, will that ever be possible?
As mentioned, you should always check the Wine AppDB. Anything with gold or platinum rating will probably run flawlessly.
FPS loss should generally be minimal, because Wine is not a real emulator, but merely an API wrapper/compatibility layer.
In the case of Bioshock, you should probably use the DirectX 9 version of the game, because DX10 support in Wine is still basically non-existant: http://www.winehq.org/site/status_directx
I should probably mention Cedega here, a commercial version of Wine designed to run newer/popular games. Wine can also run a lot of games well, and has improved a lot there over the past years, but DirectX in particular has never been a top priority for Wine, maybe Cedega is better in that regard.
For games which you only play sporadically (for example, single player games) I'd still recommend using a secondary Windows partition just for gaming. It's much less of a hassle and Windows games are guaranteed to work there (d'oh). I'd only use Wine/Cedega for games which you play more often (e.g. multiplayer games) so that rebooting all the time would be a pain in the ass.
Using Linux primarily and having to reboot to Windows to play games may also cure gaming addiction. :D Something MMORPG players might want to think about...
Lastly, it should be mentioned that a (very) few game developers are actually nice and provide a real Linux version of their game (often there's a "Linux client" available for download a while after the game was released). So this is always worth checking out.
Games by id Software are very good in that regard, you can be sure about a Linux and MacOSX port there. The Unreal games also always seem to have one. Most developers don't care though, because ~90% of the market are retards Windows users.
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Hi, havent read it all yet, cause i solved it just since 1.15.2 was released. Anyway, i cant get into bnet, wine and so starcraft crashes. Can anyone connect bnet under linux? that would be really nice!
Nice guide, anyway
Just for you to know, actually i just run my windows installed SC under wine, then with some changes in wine conf file and in xorg.conf everything is just like it should be.
all in debian etch.
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i'm on ubuntu but bnet worked for me with two fixes: installing some default font package (don't remember what it was, it's easy to search for though), and turning off the wine windows manager thing in the config. bnet will look ugly as hell but it should work.
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Sorry about the mad bump, but is it possible to run chaoslauncher + cpu savior under wine?
I play on a pretty old laptop and it overheats and shuts itself off within an hour without cpu savior.
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oh, I thought that I should ask here since it was a wine issue and not a chaoslauncher one. Guess not. Thanks!
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hehe I do this all the time (and iccup launcher finally works now!) on the MIT athena clusters :D
the cluster computers have a better keyboard/mouse (and aren't laptops...) than my computer so yay
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mm I am using VirtualBox for Starcraft and it works pretty well.
1. Open terminal
2. Type "VBoxSDL --startvm WinXP" the third para is the name of your virtual machine.
3. Press right ctrl + f (host key + f) for full screen mode.
4. and play...
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On October 11 2010 14:58 zengrz wrote:
mm I am using VirtualBox for Starcraft and it works pretty well.
1. Open terminal
2. Type "VBoxSDL --startvm WinXP" the third para is the name of your virtual machine.
3. Press right ctrl + f (host key + f) for full screen mode.
4. and play...
I used to do that too but...
that ain't penguin!
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Hm. I see there has been some time since anyone wrote anything in here so sorry if the bump seems unnecessary. But does AH and starcraft work smoothly in linux? (im on 1 archlinux + gnome, 1 ubuntu)
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I couldn't get BW to run smoothly in Linux :/ Dunno what I need to do differently but I'd much rather be able to play it on my Ubuntu installation.
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A hardcore gamer will never use linsux or OSX for that matter though...
It works just fine in Windows7 64bit.
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How did you get Brood War workng on Win7? Didn't work for me either.
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I play SCBW on linux and it works perfectly fine using wine. I play on LAN and on ICCup, and the game runs flawlessly, but since I use a safe distro as Debian I never have the latest software, and due to that the AH launcher doesn't work. That made me install a virtual machine with win xP in my virtualbox, which I use to play online.
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Ubuntu with latest version of wine works just great.
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Ive been using Linux fulltime lately and ive been playing quiet alot of BW The only "Problem" as you might call it is that i havent got the "ping" to work NP For me But would help if someone knew how to fix 
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