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deadalnix
Profile Joined May 2010
France120 Posts
July 27 2010 00:47 GMT
#1
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
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada1450 Posts
July 27 2010 00:48 GMT
#2
Awesome, thanks!
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Belegorm
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States330 Posts
July 27 2010 00:50 GMT
#3
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.
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Aquafresh
Profile Joined May 2007
United States824 Posts
July 27 2010 00:54 GMT
#4
Good news. This will make it much easier to alternate between work and play.
fabiano
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Brazil4644 Posts
July 27 2010 00:55 GMT
#5
What about the performance?
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figq
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
12519 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-07-27 01:10:37
July 27 2010 00:57 GMT
#6
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.
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deadalnix
Profile Joined May 2010
France120 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-07-27 01:05:33
July 27 2010 01:05 GMT
#7
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
Profile Joined March 2006
Netherlands19138 Posts
July 27 2010 02:04 GMT
#8
Oh wow even though the OP is horrible, it's actually useful. Leaving this open.
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darklordjac
Profile Joined July 2010
Canada2231 Posts
July 27 2010 02:38 GMT
#9
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
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
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.
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Aim Here
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
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
Profile Joined May 2010
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
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
France3466 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?
Horang2 fan
deadalnix
Profile Joined May 2010
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
Profile Joined May 2010
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
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Scotland672 Posts
July 28 2010 07:01 GMT
#16
On July 28 2010 03:31 deadalnix wrote:
Show nested quote +
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).


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

haduken
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
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 :/
Rillanon.au
Kruppe
Profile Joined May 2010
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
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Hyrule19200 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
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deadalnix
Profile Joined May 2010
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.
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