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
Installer
What does not
Workarounds
What was not tested
Campaign editor
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
-1.8ghz dual core amd turion tl-56 processors -2 gb of ram (256mb shared with video memory, so 1.7 left) -Ati radeon Xpress 1100 integrated notebook graphics card. 512mb total graphics memory, 256mb dedicated, 256mb shared -Gallium 0.4 on ATI RS480 = graphics driver Running the game on 1368x768 resolution. Had do adjust desktop resolution and the variables.txt file for the game to the same dimensions for it to work properly. I can go through menus and navigate the game options at a reasonable speed given the outdated stats on my hardware. However, it takes about half an hour to load liberation day, the first level, and once the game starts it runs at 0 frames per second. Hovering over the menu button reveals: "Framerate 0 fps. 4 resource stalls for 235mc in the last minute" and across the top it says "Try closing other applications to improve performance." In short, single player is unplayable. Video scenes are also delayed, but not 0fps. It pauses every 1 second of dialogue...which...gets...real....ly....a...noy...ing... I had previously gotten the game to run smoother on wine 1.5.23. I'm inclined to believe that an update to Starcraft 2 is causing the downgrade in performance. The game theoretically should be able to run on minimum settings on my hardware. It could be that the game isn't using both cores to run, which would mean insufficient processing power.
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 |
11674 | Dual-core unsupported in WoW and SC2 | STAGED | View | |
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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