how do you install starcraft with wine?

[cryptopsy1]

now that starcraft is free, i would like to install it, for the purpose of just getting a game to run under wine for once in my life. i was never able to do it. So what are the exact steps?

[Section_8]

Have you looked it up on the wine website: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=72

[cryptopsy1]

its "gold" , it should work. i just don't know how. don't understand the gaming stuff for wine.

[markisthejob]

I run both Starcraft and Starcraft 2 under wine.I didn't need to take any special steps. I Just used installed app-emulation/wine through portage then used the installers for both games from my file manager (dolphin)
They both work from my kde application menu

[ayleid96]

1.Use latest stable version of wine from portage.
2.Be sure to have 32bit version of gnutls if you are amd64.

No other special tricks needed.

[lordoftheworld]

What USE flags did you guys use? I've unmasked app-emulation/wine-9999, and have WINE_COMMIT="wine-2.19" exported. Steam works fine for me, and Civ 4 launches, but Zoom in/out doesn't work (screen goes black, comes back after a few seconds). The Battle.net launcher doesn't start correctly after installing correctly. Seems like wine might be missing some dependencies, but emerge --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y @world works fine.

[lordoftheworld]

I had to use wine-staging-2.18, with these USE flags: "X alsa cups dos fontconfig gecko gphoto2 gsm gstreamer jpeg lcms ldap mono mp3 ncurses netapi nls opencl opengl osmesa pcap perl pipelight png prelink pulseaudio realtime run-exes s3tc samba scanner (staging) themes threads truetype udev udisks v4l vaapi xcomposite xinerama xml."

I can't login to the blizzard agent, but I can install/start SC2/1 and login from the game using my battle.net username/password and authenticator. This is on 64-bit, with ABI_X86="32 64 (-x32)"

[*zensiert*]

I had some issues when installing StarCraft 2 using wine a few days ago, but I managed to get it to run. I'd like to share my solution, maybe it helps someone else.

I have wine-staging-2.19 installed on amd64 with integrated Intel-Graphics. My wine-prefix setup was 32-bit. Installing StarCraft 2 was successful (it first installed the Battle.Net client, which then downloaded the game). However, when starting the game, I got the following error message:

[lordoftheworld]

[*zensiert*]

[cryptopsy1]

i thought we had to use wine-vanilla, what's wine-staging? Getting this error:
https://i.imgur.com/Q38H8qe.png

Running wine-staging on the battle.net installer in /tmp which is tmpfs, i'm running this as root for testing purpose

[fpemud]

Is there any way I can download a full version of starcraft-1.18 (and broodwar) from an official source?
I'd like to improve my starcraft-1.15 ebuild, to provide a perfect user experience.

[cryptopsy1]

I got this error trying to install dune2000 from gruntsmod. Maybe this is why stacraft won't work either? I am using a tiling window manager, maybe it doesn't understand window hints?

[cryptopsy1]

[Hu]

[fpemud]

[Chiitoo]

[cryptopsy1]

i set DISPLAY=":0.0" and i'm getting err:winediag:nodrv_CreateWindow Make sure that your X server is running and that $DISPLAY is set correctly.
when i run as my user, which i created with just useradd. As root: echo $DISPLAY gives :0.0. I fixed that by doing (g is the user)

useradd g
xhost si:localuser:g
export DISPLAY=:0

now i'm getting the same fail as running it as root.

[cryptopsy1]

two errors:
1)
err:wininet:open_http_connection create_netconn failed: 12029
fixme:winhttp:get_system_proxy_autoconfig_url no support on this platform

2)
winetricks ie8 corefonts vcrun2005 vcrun2008 vcrun2015
gives : this installation does not support your system architecture (32bit/64bit), but if i close it it will continue building and instal successfully

Here's more output regarding #1

[Chiitoo]

[Hu]

As a quick test, try running xmessage 'Works' from the same shell where Wine fails to create a window. If your X11 configuration is in order (and you have xmessage installed), you will get a small pop-up on screen with the text Works. Otherwise, you will get an error. Debug this error first, then go back to dealing with the far more complicated problem of making Wine use the display.

[Chiitoo]

I just tested the game locally, and it works here, using Wine Staging 3.7 without any workarounds.

To put it into steps:

• Download the installer from: https://eu.battle.net/account/download (StarCraft-Setup.exe md5sum: cfa156737a6d5be9109ab130a86dd6f7)
  
• Using Wine Vanilla 3.7 at this point; Staging should work too.
  
• Create a new Wine prefix for the test (used the default, WoW64 set up meaning both, 64-bit and 32-bit software are supported).
  
• Run the 'StarCraft-Setup.exe' and let it install Battle.net and Starcraft.
  
• Launch the game, which fails with 'err:module:attach_dlls "ClientSdk.dll" failed to initialize, aborting'.
  
• Switch to Wine Staging 3.7 and launch the game.
  
• Play the game.

See also: Wine Bug 42741
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Kindest of regardses.

[cryptopsy1]

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[k9dog]

Gah Starcraft used to work. These days nouveau driver is too slow (actually not for SC1 but for viewing movies). nvidia driver can't run natively in 256 color. wine doesn't make a special case for legacy cards, xyphyr and xnest don't handle these cases. Getting SC to work on an old computer is plain crazy hard. nvidia is to blame imo. for bad legacy drivers on laptops with flat panels. Heck maybe I should try nouveau again, maybe they managed to speed legacy up or maybe I missed a USE flag in earlier builds. At least I made a setup to swich between nvidia and nouveau by kernel name.

[cryptopsy1]