Good news guys, it works (if anyone care).

From the dvd : copy the files on the dvd in a folder on your hard drive, then, run the installer. Otherwize, run directly the installer.

It work with wine 1.2 .

It is incompatible with 2.6.34 kernels, so if you have one of that one, upgrade to 2.6.35-rc5 if you want to play sc2, or downgarde to an older one (I'm using 2.6.32 ATM).

Surprisingly, it work beter than the beta on wine, and I suspect blizzard to have made it intentionnaly.

oursblanc

Canada1450 Posts

July 27 2010 00:48 GMT

Awesome, thanks!

Belegorm

United States330 Posts

July 27 2010 00:50 GMT

COOOOOOOOLLLLLL. Then again, for the sake of my gaming habits, I gave up on linux years ago, but still... if I eventually go from a "hardcore gamer" to "hardcore sc2 player" than I could possibly do that.

Aquafresh

United States824 Posts

July 27 2010 00:54 GMT

Good news. This will make it much easier to alternate between work and play.

fabiano

Brazil4644 Posts

July 27 2010 00:55 GMT

What about the performance?

figq

12519 Posts

July 27 2010 00:57 GMT

Frame rate? I didn't even know it works on linux, sweet.

edit: You can check the frame rate by pressing CTRL+ALT+F in game.

deadalnix

France120 Posts

July 27 2010 01:05 GMT

Performance are worse than on windows, but good enough to play in good condition on my C2D/geforce 9600 .

I don't know how to run it with opengl renderer (but as theyre is a mac version, it have to exists somewhere). Using it could improve the performance to make them comparable to windows.

PS: I'm playing SC2 on linux since the begining of the beta.

Nyovne

Netherlands19137 Posts

July 27 2010 02:04 GMT

Oh wow even though the OP is horrible, it's actually useful. Leaving this open.

darklordjac

Canada2231 Posts

July 27 2010 02:38 GMT

On July 27 2010 11:04 Nyovne wrote:
Oh wow even though the OP is horrible, it's actually useful. Leaving this open.

Come on now be nice

miseiler

United States1389 Posts

July 27 2010 14:22 GMT

#10

Nice! I was just about to check the winehq page to see if it would run.

Aim Here

Scotland672 Posts

July 27 2010 14:43 GMT

#11

I'm waiting to see if it works with ATI cards under Linux first - the beta didn't work at all for me, and it was probably some fglrx driver issue.

Also, it looks as though, from the winehq page, you might be able to mount the DVD using the unhide option instead of copying over the files.

deadalnix

France120 Posts

July 27 2010 18:31 GMT

#12

On July 27 2010 23:43 Aim Here wrote:
I'm waiting to see if it works with ATI cards under Linux first - the beta didn't work at all for me, and it was probably some fglrx driver issue.

More probably because you didn't compile wine by yourself with the correct patch. But this isn't needed anymore for SC2 (non beta).

WGT-Baal

France3426 Posts

July 27 2010 18:47 GMT

#13

do you have a 64bit version too?
cause i had trouble with win in the past due to this...
also which distrib d u have?

deadalnix

France120 Posts

July 27 2010 18:49 GMT

#14

Here is how to install and run sc2 using playOnLinux.

I assume you aldready have PlayOnLinux installed on your computer.

1/ Compile wine for PlayOnLinux :

wget http://deadal.nix.free.fr/sc2/wineInstaller
chmod +x wineInstaller
./wineInstaller

This is a script to compile the correct version of wine and put it into playOnLinux. This is a quite long operation ! So be patient and continue the steps letting this tun in background.

Note for ubuntu user in 64bit, you'll have to run sudo apt-get build-dep wine before launching the script.

2/ Copy the file from DVD somewhere on your hard drive (or get the downloadable installer).

You may have some issue to read the DVD. Read here to know how to make it readable : http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6168400&postcount=40

You needn't to go to the end, just make the files readable, then copy all files on the DVD to the folder you want.

3/ Run the PlayOnLinux script

Get the script : http://deadal.nix.free.fr/sc2/sc2betaPol (I have to rename it, but I updated it to not be a beta launcher anymore).

Launch PlayOnLinux and go to tools -> run local script then choose the script you just download.

Go throw the step of the script (It will ask how many memory your wideo card has and where is the installer, then, install the game).

deadalnix

France120 Posts

July 27 2010 18:50 GMT

#15

On July 28 2010 03:47 WGT-Baal wrote:
do you have a 64bit version too?
cause i had trouble with win in the past due to this...
also which distrib d u have?

I'm ruuning ubuntu 64bit, but other person make it run on OpenSuze, and I'm pretty sure it will run on any distribution which don't have a 2.6.34 kernel.

Aim Here

Scotland672 Posts

July 28 2010 07:01 GMT

#16

On July 28 2010 03:31 deadalnix wrote:

Show nested quote +

More probably because you didn't compile wine by yourself with the correct patch. But this isn't needed anymore for SC2 (non beta).

I did. I had THAT issue too, and worked around it with the patch. This was a different problem.

haduken

Australia8267 Posts

July 28 2010 10:37 GMT

#17

This is awesome. I don't like to upgrade kernel though as doing so always screwed up my package manager :/

Kruppe

Canada4 Posts

July 28 2010 19:28 GMT

#18

This is awesome. I don't like to upgrade kernel though as doing so always screwed up my package manager :/

What distro?

tofucake

Hyrule19188 Posts

July 28 2010 19:45 GMT

#19

Hey guys, I'd like to get your input here: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=139355

Please include Kernel and distro, and if you dual boot include your other OS as well ^^ I'm trying to get this thing rolling, but so far nobody has responded

deadalnix

France120 Posts

July 29 2010 00:21 GMT

#20

On July 28 2010 19:37 haduken wrote:
This is awesome. I don't like to upgrade kernel though as doing so always screwed up my package manager :/

You don't need to. You just have to avoid 2.6.34 . This is a very recent kernel, so you probably don't have it in your distro yet. To know which version you have, type uname -r in a terminal.

deadalnix

France120 Posts

July 29 2010 00:24 GMT

#21

I did. I had THAT issue too, and worked around it with the patch. This was a different problem.

You can also have a crash vith nvidia graphic card with old video drivers. This literraly crash the whole X server. But this is solved in the recent releases of nvidia video drivers.

rawdmon

Canada1 Post

September 18 2010 16:18 GMT

#22

SC2 works even better in wine 1.3. Less screwing around to get it to run, you just install and launch. You may have to do some wine registry tweaks to enhance performance.

The following are the tweaks that I made:

Create HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Wine/Direct3D (if it doesn't already exist).

Right click and select New -> String value. Name them as follows (as set the string value as follows)...

DirectDrawRenderer opengl
Multisampling disabled
OffScreenRenderingMode pbuffer
UseGLSL disabled
VertexShaderMode hardware
VideoMemorySize 1024 (set this to correspond to the amount of video memory on your graphics card).

UseGLSL disabled had the most dramatic effect on performance. If I enabled medium shaders in game without that option the performance was horrible. After I set that I could enable medium shaders no problem.

The in-game video settings that I am using are as follows:

Texture Quality: High
Graphics Quality: Custom
Shaders: Medium
Lighting: Low
Shadows: Medium
Terrain: Medium
Reflections: Off
Effects: Low
Post-Processing: Low
Physics: Low
Models: High
Units Portraits: 3D
Movies: High

These options work best for me. You'll probably have to tweak them depending on how powerful your PC and graphics card are.

Wr3k

Canada2533 Posts

September 18 2010 16:55 GMT

#23

They probably developed the engine on linux machines, so this doesn't really surprise me that much.

0mgVitaminE

United States1278 Posts

September 18 2010 17:47 GMT

#24

I haven't been on linux for a while, but this is really good to know.

Thanks op!

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