Re: [UM-LINUX] Starcraft & WINE

[Russ Kay]

I downloaded Cedega’s 14-day free trial. It’s a bit better. Makes the game run lag free, and you sort of see the Battle.NET welcome screen. However, it crashes when Battle.NET is loaded up.   Rob: Thanks. I tried that before I sent the email. One guy wrote a post to “fix” the Battle.NET black screen issue, but it doesn’t work. Since StarCraft uses DirectX, I’ll assume it’ll have a bit of lag no matter what (in Linux). Not sure why Battle.NET doesn’t work, but I’ll mark it under “lost cause” for now.   Thanks guys -Russ   From: Joshua Berch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 11:19 PM To: Russ Kay Subject: Re: [UM-LINUX] Starcraft & WINE   I've actually spent quite a bit of time with wine and Starcraft.  I never got battlenet to work, and do not think it is possible.  However, you can play with people on the local network....  It is possible that Battlenet will work with cedega, but I don't know for sure... Goodluck! -Joshua- On 1/10/06, Russ Kay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So I figured this would be an easy non-trivial install. I'm now using Ubuntu btw. Figured I'd try it out. So quickly go over the basics: apt-get'ed wine (can I say apt-get'ed?), enabled DGA, installed SC, ran sluggish. Then I run "nice -20 wine StarCraft.exe" which makes for no lag (or at least, a lot less). Then comes my question. Does anyone know how to get Battle.NET working in linux? When I connect it says it can't determine the version of my install and that I need to reinstall. Also, it shows a black screen. Maybe something obvious I'm missing, maybe it can't be done. I checked around on that interweb (especially winehq.org) and couldn't find a fix (unless I'm terribly blind, which I am on occasion). So if anyone knows anything that could help, please feel free to respond. Thanks -Russ