CoD Modern Warfare 2 and Starcraft 2

ChrisJumper · Advocate Joined: 12 Mar 2005 Posts: 2390 Location: Germany

Call of Duty Mordern Warfare 2

Has someone try to run this game with wine? Since it need Steam to play it i just want to know if someone of you have this Game working.

Starcraft 2

- To play Starcraft 2, you have to install wine 1.2 and a Kernel 2.6.32 or above 2.6.35-r4.
- I had no sound, but after activate the openal and esd Useflag of wine, it works.
- You can buy the game, create a battle.net account and add the game on your account. And download an Installer from there.
- Or you use your retail game. But the dvd has some hidden files so your installation will not work as usual. You have mount it manual with some options:

forrestfunk81 · Guru Joined: 07 Feb 2006 Posts: 565 Location: münchen.de

Hi CrisJumper,

I got it running with wine, but it is extremly slow (on a amd phenom2 955 with nvidia GTX275). Steam also works with wine but iirc i had some problems installing MW2 with Steam, so i copied my Windows MW2 installation to appropiate wine directory. I tried it in febr. 2010 and june 2010 with unstable wine releases.
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nevillemartin11 · n00b Joined: 15 Jul 2010 Posts: 4

I have seen that Most of the user have felt the issue with running the games. I have also copied the Windows installation directory MW2 matching wines. I hope that It should be come with fats version. So We will enjoy it very well and also as far than previously.

ChrisJumper · Advocate Joined: 12 Mar 2005 Posts: 2390 Location: Germany

Thanks for your advise. So i won't waste my Money on that game and buy another one: Torchlight :D

Muso · Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 7:16 pm Post subject:

ChrisJumper · Advocate Joined: 12 Mar 2005 Posts: 2390 Location: Germany

Starcraft2 ??

Ohhh but i hope this will run too, with this strange online copy-protection when the game roll out!

But it sounds good. .... ok the game is ordered :D

d2_racing · Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 2:57 am Post subject:

StartCraft 2 should be good AFAIK, because I played the game a couple of hours, the brother of my gilrfriend is a betatester, so I was able to play maybe 5-10 hours and it's better then Starcraft 1 , but you still have the same feeling.

ChrisJumper · Advocate Joined: 12 Mar 2005 Posts: 2390 Location: Germany

Today i got my Starcraft2 CE...

but i can't install the game from the dvd. Maybe its an issue about user rights or a wrong udev configuration? If i mount the cdrom i got this:

Muso · Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2010 7:22 pm Post subject:

Have you registered your game's DVD code @ battle.net? If you do that you can then just download the digital version and it should install for you without a hitch.
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ChrisJumper · Advocate Joined: 12 Mar 2005 Posts: 2390 Location: Germany

Thank you Chopinzee,

i will do this! The Installer on the DVD (in windows) won't install, it "dial out" and ask a Server for the time which say: "Noo installation, just wait to the 27.7.2010" :)

Muso · Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2010 9:02 pm Post subject:

ChrisJumper · Advocate Joined: 12 Mar 2005 Posts: 2390 Location: Germany

Muso · Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2010 11:27 pm Post subject:

Um, do you need anything specific from the gentoo patchset? If not you could just emerge the vanilla sources.
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ChrisJumper · Advocate Joined: 12 Mar 2005 Posts: 2390 Location: Germany

Thanks, i will try the vanilla-sources. I don't really know what is different in the gentoo-sources, so i just ask cause i am to lazy for reading it, i will play ;D

Jimini · l33t Joined: 31 Oct 2006 Posts: 601 Location: Germany

--[solved]--

Hey,
at the moment I am little helpless: I installed StarCraft 2 without any problems, but I have difficulties to start the game. Sometimes it starts, sometimes it doesn't, sometimes it crashes befor I get to the point where I log in. A few times it seemed to do the following:
- change the Windows-version between Vista and 7
- wineserver -k

I solved the soundproblem temporarily by overriding "mmdevapi" and disabling it.

Wine:

maaddog · n00b Joined: 23 Jun 2003 Posts: 41

SC2 works reasonably well for me, but random crashes abound. Typically i find it very very temperamental to start up. All the recommended fixes for sound actually cause it to crash (i have stuttering, i blame pulseaudio as usual :p)

However once it runs, performance is good with everything set at ultra

quite a nice game.

- messing with the O/S version for me causes start-up crashes (xp is fine)
- changing any audio options, bitrate, Alsa/OSS, emulation/full cause a start-up crash (defaults is fine)
- patches listed in wine app db don't do squat atm
- kernel patches don't help either

Running wine 1.2, once the match is started or your logged in the game, its stable. So if your looking to run it on Linux, I do recommend it.

Muso · Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 6:55 am Post subject:

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boaglio · Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 2:57 am Post subject:

So I'm really would like to play SC2 on Linux, but even using the right version of Wine and Kernel and installed 100%, I am unable to run the game.

Versions:

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ChrisJumper · Advocate Joined: 12 Mar 2005 Posts: 2390 Location: Germany

boaglio,

did you check out the winehq.org application database entry or user Post comments? And i hope you have an official Version... ;)

Maybe the no execution-filesystem could be an "noexec"-Flag on the device/place where your wine-folder is installed (/home?) see your fstab

@cst

It runs fine here too, maybe i have to elevate that it much slower on Linux, but if you have much more power you can neglect the slowdown effect.

I have a Quad Core and an Nvidia GTS 250 with 1 GB Memory on my Card. But only 2 GB Ram.

neuron · Advocate Joined: 28 May 2002 Posts: 2371

Would be nice if people that are able to play any map on ultra would post their specs.

I'm on a GTX260M, i7 at 3.2ghz and 4gb ram. On the last terran map I get around 25fps with low on everything. This is with compiz on though, but there's no huge performance increase with anything. Got the latest nvidia driver (256.44), but my kernels not as updated.

smashy · n00b Joined: 15 Dec 2007 Posts: 18

Realy poor perfs

setting ultra 1080 with 2,96GHz Intel Core2 , nvidia 470 (drivers 256.44 ) 2.6.35 ...i get 15/20 fps ( test under crossover game 9.1.0)

Some trick for nvidia 's users !! Don't work for me , no way for play with ultra setting .

cst · Apprentice Joined: 24 Feb 2008 Posts: 203 Location: /proc

even on 470? now thats really bad
you cant say it runs fine if high-end GPU cant handle it
I would not give this a gold in winehq
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Jimini · l33t Joined: 31 Oct 2006 Posts: 601 Location: Germany

How do you measure your fps in SC2?
At the moment, I have almost everything on "medium", the performance could be worse.
My system: Intel Core i5 750, Geforce GT240 (bottleneck!), 4G RAM.

Best regards,
Jimini
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