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
+ Installation via online installer downloaded from battle.net
+ Updating
+ Campaign
+ Cutscenes
+ Menu interface
What does not
- Exiting without crash reporter kicking in
Workarounds
What was not tested
? Multiplayer game (Battle.net UI works fine)
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
Registry changes used; DirectDrawRenderer opengl Multisampling disabled OffscreenRenderingMode pbuffer PixelShaderMode enabled RenderTargetLockMode readtex StrictDrawOrdering disabled UseGLSL disabled VertexShaderMode hardware VideoMemorySize 1536 Graphical settings in game were set to highest possible (Extreme and Ultra), except Shader level. Performance really goes down the drain if I set that to anything above Medium. Medium Shaders yield something like 40fps+ in game, while with High and Ultra I get ~17-20fps. The difference between those two are very small, which is a bit suspicious. It feels like the level of detail of textures should be much much higher, despite having texture quality set to Ultra in the game and OpenGL Image Setting set to High Quality in nvidia-settings. For instance, the level of detail of Raynor's face in the cutscenes is very low and he ends up blocky. Minor light/shadow oddities on some 3D face portraits, especially humans' since their faces are smoother than those of Protoss and Zerg characters. Sometimes the game takes up to two minutes to even try to start. Very inconsistent behavior, but you can just wait it out. Not worth a Platinum rating but definitely playable if you're not picky about the visuals. Graphics performance and quality should honestly be much better for the hardware I'm using. Kernel 2.6.38-020638 from Ubuntu mainline ppa CPU Intel i7-2600k (Sandy Bridge) at 4.6ghz RAM 8gb DDR3, clocked at a conservative 1600mhz for now Videocard Nvidia GeForce 580, running Nvidia's 260.19.29 driver from xorg-edgers ppa
| 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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