Howto: Dapper, Wine, Starcraft

[Nikusan]

1 Install wine

sudo apt-get install wine

2 Setup disc drives in wine

winecfg

Go to the Drives tab.
Press the Autodetect button.
Press the Show Advanced button.
Change the type of your CD drive(s) to CD-ROM.

3 Test audio in wine

winecfg

Go to the Audio tab.
If it crashes follow the instructions here.

4 Install Starcraft and Brood War
Insert the Starcraft CD.
The CD should automatically open in nautilus. If not, navigate to it.
Right click install.exe and choose Open with "Wine Windows Emulator".
If that is not listed choose Open with Other Application... then choose "Use a custom command" and enter wine.

Optionally, assuming your starcraft cd is inserted in /media/cdrom you could simply:

wine /media/cdrom/install.exe

Do exactly the same for the Brood War CD.

5 Update to version 1.13f

wget http://ftp.blizzard.com/pub/broodwar/patches/PC/BW-113f.exe
wine BW-113f.exe

6 Set Starcraft to run windowed
I've had trouble with starcraft running full screen because when it exits it messes up all the applets and things on my panels. To set it to run windowed:

winecfg

Go to the Applications tab.
Press Add application...
Navigate to "Program Files\Starcraft\starcraft.exe"
Go to the Graphics tab.
Tick "Emulate a virtual desktop".


7 Run it!

wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Starcraft/starcraft.exe

8 Optionally place a launcher in the menu
Navigate to Applications > Accessories > Alacarte Menu Editor
Click on the games category.
Click on File > New Entry.
Name: "Starcraft"
Comment: "National Sport of South Korea"
Command: "wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Starcraft/starcraft.exe"
For an icon you can use the file sc.ico from the Starcraft CD, or you can use one of the kickass icons here.

[sYs^]

Hi,

nice howto, but I have a little problem with starcraft + wine, it uses 100% CPU even in the menu. Any ideas? Is that a problem if my starcraft was installed on Windows XP and I'm running it from a ntfs partition? Thanks!

[Nikusan]

Hi,

nice howto, but I have a little problem with starcraft + wine, it uses 100% CPU even in the menu. Any ideas? Is that a problem if my starcraft was installed on Windows XP and I'm running it from a ntfs partition? Thanks!

Mine does that too, however you wouldn't notice it from playing the game. Unless you have folding or something running in the background I guess it's an issue we can conveniently ignore?

[sYs^]

Unfortunately I notice it, my units are moving like snails.

[Nikusan]

Unfortunately I notice it, my units are moving like snails.

Hmmm sorry, I don't have a solution.

[sYs^]

Of course it isn't your fault so you don't have to say sorry, that's why I have dual boot, Ubuntu + Windows XP

[duality]

nice man, thnx alot

[Carrots171]

If Starcraft is slow for you, you can add:

nice -20

to the end of the command used to run Starcraft. It made Starcraft a lot less choppy for me.

Oh yeah, there's another HOWTO for Starcraft on Wine here:

http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/...DEX+Wine+Games

It has instructions on getting Battle.net working. The interface doesn't work properly (It's a known bug in WINE), but once you join a game, everything works fine.

[La_Frenezo]

Hi!

Thanks for the instructions! I tried them but I still encounter a bunch of problems:

1) I'm able to play the game in singleplayer, but the mousecursor is choppy as hell.
2) When I try to login, b.net it says:"Can't determine version...". The strange thing is: it has already worked for 1start - right after I added the patch I was able to login BUT...
3)The whole b.net screen looks black :/
4)After an error like "Can't determine version.." WINE ALWAYS crashes (screen gets black) ...

Does anyone has clue?

[souled]

Starcraft works with emulated desktop, but changing the resolution has no effect. Even if I change the resolution to 1024x768, the game plays at 800x600 (I think), but it's too small for me. Anyone experiencing this?