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Well, today i installed Hots on my linux, and i'm like...very happy with the results ! =)
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04.2 and whine 1.5.26 with play on linux.
The graphics starts to lose some fps only on "extreme" on my machine, but for me it does not matter too much because i play on low graphics anw.
I got a i5 with a nvidia gtx 460 SE, a "ok" machine. The game is running very smooth, played like all day without any crash or issue.
A screenshot on ultra graphics (nvidia proprietary driver):
http://i.imgur.com/gKyYTLG.jpg
I'm posting it because i read on many forums people saying the game was crashing a lot and having other issues. I'm having a awesome experience, i hope blizz don't crush my hopes with a evil update !
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This is pretty cool, but if it's a thread (I'm not sure what discussion can be had, unless you want to write a guide on how to do it?) should possibly be moved to SC2 general?
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Oh i was sure i created it on SC2 General, my mistake ! If some mod could move it to there, i will be thankful !
There was a thread about but was very very old, i think it was WoL yet.
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I've run it on Linux (Archlinux with wine-git from AUR). Its playable for sure with my GTX 660M on my Asus G55 but the framerate isn't really pleasing. Same with some other games. Thats why as much as I love working on linux, until game engines (graphics and physics) are optimized for both Windows and Linux, the 'experience' won't exactly be the same.
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On May 27 2013 06:03 iDope wrote:
I've run it on Linux (Archlinux with wine-git from AUR). Its playable for sure with my GTX 660M on my Asus G55 but the framerate isn't really pleasing. Same with some other games. Thats why as much as I love working on linux, until game engines (graphics and physics) are optimized for both Windows and Linux, the 'experience' won't exactly be the same.
The framerate issue with Starcraft 2 is due to a known bug somewhere between wine, Linux and Starcraft 2; for some reason, the game doesn't use up all the resources for either the CPU or GPU. You can get better results by manually setting CPU and GPU speeds before starting the game, though it's still not brilliant. It's bug 24558 in the wine buglist.
In theory, there's no fixed reason why Windows games under wine would naturally be slower than the windows counterparts. In practice, the emulation-layer overhead means that native Windows tends to have better performance than Linux, but it is sometimes possible for Linux games under wine to be faster.
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Please give an outline of how you got SC2 to work on your Linux machine, I'd really like to know how to do it. Thanks 
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This has been possible for a long time, but I'm not going to bother until I can actually configure my mouse properly in Arch. Sure, the game may run properly, but it doesn't make sense if I have to use a mouse with an incorrect cpi setting.
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On May 27 2013 06:42 Aim Here wrote:Show nested quote +On May 27 2013 06:03 iDope wrote:
I've run it on Linux (Archlinux with wine-git from AUR). Its playable for sure with my GTX 660M on my Asus G55 but the framerate isn't really pleasing. Same with some other games. Thats why as much as I love working on linux, until game engines (graphics and physics) are optimized for both Windows and Linux, the 'experience' won't exactly be the same. The framerate issue with Starcraft 2 is due to a known bug somewhere between wine, Linux and Starcraft 2; for some reason, the game doesn't use up all the resources for either the CPU or GPU. You can get better results by manually setting CPU and GPU speeds before starting the game, though it's still not brilliant. It's bug 24558 in the wine buglist. In theory, there's no fixed reason why Windows games under wine would naturally be slower than the windows counterparts. In practice, the emulation-layer overhead means that native Windows tends to have better performance than Linux, but it is sometimes possible for Linux games under wine to be faster.
It's slower because the video drivers for linux are waaay behind in development. The games they have tested which are faster are very old games, such as Valve which tested counter-strike 1.6 which ran better(because linux as a system is faster, this is also why Valve wanted to convert all steam games over to linux, hoping to push video drivers so that it will be better than windows in protest of windows 8)
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On May 27 2013 06:42 Aim Here wrote:Show nested quote +On May 27 2013 06:03 iDope wrote:
I've run it on Linux (Archlinux with wine-git from AUR). Its playable for sure with my GTX 660M on my Asus G55 but the framerate isn't really pleasing. Same with some other games. Thats why as much as I love working on linux, until game engines (graphics and physics) are optimized for both Windows and Linux, the 'experience' won't exactly be the same. The framerate issue with Starcraft 2 is due to a known bug somewhere between wine, Linux and Starcraft 2; for some reason, the game doesn't use up all the resources for either the CPU or GPU. You can get better results by manually setting CPU and GPU speeds before starting the game, though it's still not brilliant. It's bug 24558 in the wine buglist. In theory, there's no fixed reason why Windows games under wine would naturally be slower than the windows counterparts. In practice, the emulation-layer overhead means that native Windows tends to have better performance than Linux, but it is sometimes possible for Linux games under wine to be faster.
On my machine, the Hots is running faster on the linux with low settings ! =)
I will post a fast tutorial later of how to install it with no problem ( nvidia path )
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On May 27 2013 07:07 megid wrote:Show nested quote +On May 27 2013 06:42 Aim Here wrote:On May 27 2013 06:03 iDope wrote:
I've run it on Linux (Archlinux with wine-git from AUR). Its playable for sure with my GTX 660M on my Asus G55 but the framerate isn't really pleasing. Same with some other games. Thats why as much as I love working on linux, until game engines (graphics and physics) are optimized for both Windows and Linux, the 'experience' won't exactly be the same. The framerate issue with Starcraft 2 is due to a known bug somewhere between wine, Linux and Starcraft 2; for some reason, the game doesn't use up all the resources for either the CPU or GPU. You can get better results by manually setting CPU and GPU speeds before starting the game, though it's still not brilliant. It's bug 24558 in the wine buglist. In theory, there's no fixed reason why Windows games under wine would naturally be slower than the windows counterparts. In practice, the emulation-layer overhead means that native Windows tends to have better performance than Linux, but it is sometimes possible for Linux games under wine to be faster. On my machine, the Hots is running faster on the linux with low settings ! =) I will post a fast tutorial later of how to install it with no problem ( nvidia path )
Please do, I've been thinking of switching to Linux myself, and this would make the move much easier. Thanks! <3
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Well, if windows goes off the rails, at least now I know I can turn to Linux insted of + Show Spoiler +man turns around holding a bloody pickax and sporting the, "you don't say", smile
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On May 27 2013 07:05 Cinim wrote:Show nested quote +On May 27 2013 06:42 Aim Here wrote:On May 27 2013 06:03 iDope wrote:
I've run it on Linux (Archlinux with wine-git from AUR). Its playable for sure with my GTX 660M on my Asus G55 but the framerate isn't really pleasing. Same with some other games. Thats why as much as I love working on linux, until game engines (graphics and physics) are optimized for both Windows and Linux, the 'experience' won't exactly be the same. The framerate issue with Starcraft 2 is due to a known bug somewhere between wine, Linux and Starcraft 2; for some reason, the game doesn't use up all the resources for either the CPU or GPU. You can get better results by manually setting CPU and GPU speeds before starting the game, though it's still not brilliant. It's bug 24558 in the wine buglist. In theory, there's no fixed reason why Windows games under wine would naturally be slower than the windows counterparts. In practice, the emulation-layer overhead means that native Windows tends to have better performance than Linux, but it is sometimes possible for Linux games under wine to be faster. It's slower because the video drivers for linux are waaay behind in development. The games they have tested which are faster are very old games, such as Valve which tested counter-strike 1.6 which ran better(because linux as a system is faster, this is also why Valve wanted to convert all steam games over to linux, hoping to push video drivers so that it will be better than windows in protest of windows 8)
Erm, you ARE aware that the proprietary video drivers for AMD and Nvidia cards are more or less the same as those for Windows, with a GPLed shim attached in order to link them to the Linux driver. Also, 'Left 4 Dead 2' is hardly a 'very old game', and one of the first things Valve said about it was that it ran faster on Linux than Windows - the speed there was due to the OpenGL libraries doing something in a more optimal fashion than the corresponding DirectX doohickey, if I recall correctly, not driver related.
And you ARE definitely wrong about the specific problem with Starcraft 2 under wine. There is a very definite slowdown which manifests itself in the manner in which I (and the wine bug report) mentioned. I can actually demonstrate the effect by manually setting the *CPU* speed and watching the framerate increase. You don't have much excuse for being wrong here, given that I did provide a link to the actual bug report for the software involved.
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Hello,
I am trying to play Hots on Linux ubuntu :
root@jul-N73SV:/media/jul/Data/SC2# uname -r
3.19.0-25-generic
But when i log on battlenet, application crash everytime ... how do you do ?
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