Starcraft wine configuration help

[idtt2s]

Starcraft works unbearably slow, and I think I might know how to help it.

"What works
Everything. The performance is much better in 16 bit colors."

1. How can I make it run in 16 bit colour while keeping my system in 24 bit colour?
2. How can I run Starcraft in windowed mode? (please don't answer this before #1)

[mark_alec]

Moved from Desktop Environments to Gamers & Players.

[russianpirate]

Even though it may help performance, it's not the reason its slow..
I used to be able to fix this with "nice -n 20 wine.." but after 0.9.14.. that doesnt work.. so I would like a solution for 0.9.14+ as well

[idtt2s]

BUMP

[russianpirate]

if you have beyond kernel, then thats the problem, works fine with vanilla, but im staying with beyond.. starcraft is less important lol

[idtt2s]

What is a beyond kernel?

[russianpirate]

[idtt2s]

I've changed to vanilla. I can't say the game got faster, but it's playable.
Note: I said PLAYABLE and not ACCEPTABLE, the game is still quite slow and I'm still open to solutions.

[russianpirate]

use vanilla (i now use vanilla with suspend2 patches).. and run the game like this:
"nice -n 20 wine /path/to/starcraft.exe"

dont use cedega, it runs the game too slow

[idtt2s]

I do use that and I still find the game unbearable.

[killertux]

Works fine here in Wine 0.9.13
but in Wine 0.9.16 ddraw is working trought d3d this makes StarCraft working lot faster if running in 16 or 24 bit X
because bitdeth conversions are made in graphic card however this feature require working opengl support.

[idtt2s]

Ok.

I will now install Wine 9.16 and enable OpenGL.

[idtt2s]

Doesn't help much, it's still slow.

[Dikkiedik]

Same problem here, although I am running on an old computer. Above solutions don't help.
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