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StarCraft

The original StarCraft with 1.18 patch onward including updates from StarCraft Remastered.

This version does not include the remastered graphics and audio.

Application Details:

Version: 1.18+
License: Free to use
URL: http://blizzard.com/games/sc/
Votes: 23
Latest Rating: Silver
Latest Wine Version Tested: 9.10

Maintainers: About Maintainership

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Test Results

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What works

Multiplayer LAN.

Switching between widow mode and full screen (alt-enter).

Resizing non-full screen window works (a little stuttery, but manageable).

Battlenet correctly shuts down when closed (used to stay running in background on older wine versions).

All menus work correctly and at full speed!


What does not

Workarounds

What was not tested

Single player

Battlenet

Hardware tested

Graphics:

  • GPU: Nvidia
  • Driver: proprietary

Additional Comments

Sym linking game into ~/.wine/c_drive/Program Files works flawlessly allowing for easy/clean .wine refreshes when needed.

Works great on hybrid laptop with both the Intel Skylake and NVidia GPU's.

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Operating systemTest dateWine versionInstalls?Runs?Used
Workaround?
RatingSubmitter
ShowLinux Mint 21.3Jun 04 20249.10Yes Yes NoSilverBobby Yu 
ShowArch Linux x86_64Mar 23 20238.4Yes Yes NoPlatinumJzo4 
ShowNixOS 22.05 (Quokka)Feb 12 20237.8-stagingYes Yes YesGoldAlexander 
ShowNixOS 21.11 (Porcupine)Apr 19 20226.22-stagingYes Yes YesGoldAlexander 
ShowUbuntu 20.04 "Focal" (+ variants like Kubuntu)May 08 20216.8Yes Yes YesGarbageScott 

Known Bugs

Bug # Description Status Resolution Other apps affected
43011 StarCraft Brood War 1.18 significant delays in CEF Browser UNCONFIRMED View
53689 Starcraft remastered fails to start UNCONFIRMED View

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HowTo / Notes

Installing with the Blizzard Downloader

You will need mshtml.dll and wininet.dll from internet explorer 6SP1

I got mine using the latest version of ies4linux

Copy them to ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32

Use the libraries tab in winecfg to set them both to native

Downloading and installing should now work

Comments

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Starcraft Remastered fails to run
by Dmytro Bagrii on Sunday February 12th 2023, 2:55
Wine 7.12: works fine, just graphics are a bit blurry.

Wine 7.13: can't start. "Play" button in Battle.net becomes "Launching" -> "Playing Now" -> "Play" -> "Updating" -> "Play", status becomes "Paused. 100%". StarCraft.exe process is running and consuming 100% CPU.

Wine 8.1: can't start. Displays windows dialog box ERROR "Game Initialization Failed: T".
RE: Starcraft Remastered fails to run
by ArchPhénix on Tuesday February 14th 2023, 16:51
Was able to reproduce the error, would love to see a fix as it is a big regression.
RE: Starcraft Remastered fails to run
by Alexander on Wednesday February 15th 2023, 1:56
Does this bug description exist in the bugtracker?
RE: Starcraft Remastered fails to run
by Dmytro Bagrii on Wednesday February 15th 2023, 4:11
I didn't file a bug to bugzilla yet because of several reasons:

1. I don't know if it should be for 7.13 or 8.1? Or for both? I also have to bisect wine's repo and build vanilla wine several times to find what exact commit introduces regression.
2. I'm not sure if this is a bug with Starcraft Remastered or Battle.net application. Some time ago i had issues with Battle.net laucher as well: appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=28855#Comment-106901
3. I don't know if i need to install dxvk. If yes, what version of dxvk i should use? These results i got without dxvk. When dxvk is installed it also fails but differently: depending on which dxvk i tried (binary release or manually built various versions from repo) it either shows "Page fault" of Battle.net.exe in dxgi.dll or teminates silently without reasonable error messages immediately after Battle.net app started.
4. Seems even 7.12 works without hardware acceleration: graphics are blury and i observe small of lags which were absent some time ago. I don't know if such behavior is expected.

Too many degrees of freedom of components and their versions to narrow the issue.
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