Wings of Liberty, Heart of the Swarm, and Legacy of the Void, including Starter Editions
Please try the Stater Edition before buying the game to make sure it works on your system (link below). It includes the first campaign (Wings of Liberty) and the Arcade (Mods)
Consider including the following in your test results:
Application Details:
| Version: | Current |
| License: | Retail |
| URL: | http://www.starcraft2.com/ |
| Votes: | 151 |
| Latest Rating: | Silver |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 9.0 |
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What works
Honestly, this is probably the best game I've play under Wine with perhaps the exception of two minor issues.
Firstly, the over all FPS is low. So, I reduced all the visuals to "low" and it ran very smoothly - and it actually still looked pretty decent. I mean, better than most open-source titles!
The second issue was the mouse scrolling. It's a little weird. When I attempted to pan right, the map wouldn't scroll - unless I went to the upper right, or bottom right corner. Additionally, it's a bit jerky.
There's a few hiss and pops in the audio, here and there as data is loading but in all honesty... This game, for me, needs a higher rank than Gold. It's pretty solid.
What does not
Everything worked for me. No issues except performance, and mouse scrolling.
Workarounds
What was not tested
Not sure. I installed it with no problem, updated to the lastest patches without any issues. Played Mutliplayer with no issues (even won!).
Have yet to try the single player mode in Linux yet.
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
The game ran as expected, functionality wise. Performance needed to be compensated for by lowering all that graphics setting to low. Mouse didn't pan the game to the right properly. I would have rated it Platinum, but a few miner adjustments are needed. I'm going to install the latest Nvidia drivers, enable SLI and give it another go. Will change around some setting on my card too.
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | Debian GNU/Linux 12.x Bookworm | Feb 14 2024 | 9.0 | No, but has workaround | Yes | Yes | Silver | Chris | |
| Show | Ubuntu 20.04 "Focal" (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Sep 15 2022 | 7.17 | Yes | Yes | No | Silver | Didi Kohen | |
| Show | Arch Linux | Jan 29 2022 | 7.0-rc5-staging | Yes | Yes | No | Silver | Dmitry | |
| Show | Garuda | Jul 15 2021 | 6.12 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | Gr Armpit | |
| Show | Debian GNU/Linux 10.x "Buster" | May 30 2021 | 6.9-staging | N/A | No | No | Garbage | Joshua |
| Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
| 29384 | Multiple applications expect correct handling of WRITECOPY memory protection (Voobly fails to launch Age of Empires II, MSYS2) | STAGED | View | |
| 30853 | Wine doesn’t always handle "right alt" properly | NEW | View | |
| 32342 | Multiple applications and games using 'Webkit', 'Blink' or 'CEF' (libcef) web browser engine crash on startup ('Arial' and 'Times New Roman' font face name validation) | STAGED | View | |
| 33759 | Some applications reset the X color profile | UNCONFIRMED | View | |
| 39164 | Starcraft 2: broken after alt-tab | UNCONFIRMED | View | |
| 39576 | Sound in StarCraft 2 breaks after | UNCONFIRMED | View | |
| 44920 | StarCraft II crashes on some maps (requires HLSL compiler) | REOPENED | View | |
| 49094 | "err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection" racy hang when starting/running StarCraft 2 | UNCONFIRMED | View | |
| 49994 | Starcraft2 shows blank screen: DVI-D out of range 89.5Khz, 60Hz | UNCONFIRMED | View | |
| 52244 | starcraft2 crashes while loading arcade game e_gfxErrorShaderCompileFailed | UNCONFIRMED | View | |
| 53970 | Purchases in StarCraft II do not work | UNCONFIRMED | View | |
| 54339 | Wine doesn't recognize RTX 3xxx and 4xxx | UNCONFIRMED | View |
If using custom gamma settings or using an application that automatically changes gamma (e.g. redshift) then at specific times, your gamma setting may reset for a short time.
To fix this, open the registry editor and navigate to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/
Inside the newly created "X11 Driver" add the chain value "UseXVidMode" and set it to "N".
wineserver -k
You can download the StarCraft II Starter Edition for free via the Battle.net Launcher, which includes the first campaign (Wings Of Liberty) and the Arcade (Mods).
Please test how / if the game works before buying it.
As of October Windows XP is no longer supported
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