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
Using 64-bit Starcraft II. Played the Wings of Liberty, Heart of the Swarm, and Legacy of the Void campaigns. Also played custom campaigns that used custom and co-op assets.
What does not
Customized assets and effects sometimes have shader bug that turns everything affected a "glowing" red.
Workarounds
Because my installation of Battle.net stopped working due to an update that happened after Starcraft 2, I need to launch Starcraft 2 directly by launching (starcraft 2's install folder)/Support64/SC2Switcher_x64.exe
What was not tested
Multiplayer, co-op modes were not tested
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Current | 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 | |
| 29168 | Multiple games and applications need realtime updates to KSYSTEM_TIME members in KUSER_SHARED_DATA (Star Wars: The Old Republic game client, Blizzard games, GO 1.4+ runtime, Denuvo Anti-Tamper x64 #2) | CLOSED | FIXED | 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 | |
| 40905 | Multiple applications need api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll._get_narrow_winmain_command_line (PCSX2 1.4.0, Battle.Net Launcher) | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 40979 | Starcraft 2 crashes in online game. | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
| 41071 | Multiple applications needs api-ms-win-crt-stdio-l1-1-0.dll._wsopen_dispatch (PCSX2 1.4.0, StarCraft II 3.6.0) | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 41090 | Multiple games (Starcraft 2, UE4 games) require vcruntime140.dll.__intrinsic_setjmp | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 41320 | Starcraft 2 crashes with "Unexpected Fatal Error" immediately after opening. | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 41583 | Starcraft 2 hangs with "setup_exception stack overflow" | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 41725 | Unimplemented function api-ms-win-crt-math-l1-1-0.dll._except1 (Starcraft 2 main menu, Firefox) | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 42001 | SC2 unimplemented function ucrtbase.dll._except1 | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 42741 | Multiple Blizzard games fail to launch (StarCraft I & II, Diablo III, Heroes of the Storm) | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 44920 | StarCraft II crashes on some maps (requires HLSL compiler) | REOPENED | View | |
| 45349 | Multiple applications and games crash due to missing support for 64-bit syscall thunks (StreetFighter V, World of Warcraft) | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 45502 | No sound in Starcraft II | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 45589 | Starcraft 2: Sound stops working after a while | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 47265 | Multiple Blizzard games (Diablo III, Heroes of the Storm, Overwatch, Starcraft, StarCraft II, World of Warcraft) crash immediately on launch | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 47266 | StarCraft 2 (x64) does not start since patch 4.8.x | CLOSED | DUPLICATE | View |
| 49094 | "err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection" racy hang when starting/running StarCraft 2 | UNCONFIRMED | View | |
| 49476 | Overwatch doesn't start with Wine version set to Windows 7 | CLOSED | WONTFIX | View |
| 49798 | StarCraft 2 hangs on startup since 5.12 | CLOSED | DUPLICATE | 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 | |
| 55062 | Starcraft II Graphics Only Work When Window is Out of Focus | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 56772 | Starcraft2 installer crashes at the login screen (arch linux/xorg) | CLOSED | DUPLICATE | 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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