StarCraft

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".

Was able to reproduce the error, would love to see a fix as it is a big regression.

Does this bug description exist in the bugtracker?

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.

Confirmed: works again with wine-staging 6.16 and starcraft 1.23.8.9713.

Interesting when the required features for running SC:R from wine-staging will stabilize and be merged into stable wine... So that it won't break running the SC:R from one staging version to another...

Since the revamp made by Blizzard to the bnet client application and the update to Starcraft Remastered 1.23.8.9373, I am unable to connect to the battle.net gateways any more. And I noticed that the UI in general (especially the news frame and options) have become a tad sluggish. I am unsure at this point if the connection issues are due to new code in the game (anti-cheat and the like) or simply due to networking stack. I have not changed my network preferences.

Anyone else noticed this?

Battle.Net app 1.32.0.12712
Starcraft Remastered 1.23.8.9373
OS Fedora 33 (5.10.19 kernel)
Wine 6.3 staging
prefix set to Win10 (was Win7, changed recently)

CPU Ryzen R9 3900XT
RAM 48GiB
GFX GTX1080 (proprietary driver)

The Battle.net.exe application has been updated and GUI is a bit different now (with some problems when moving the window). But it does not prevent StarCraft (1.23.8.9373) from launching in any way and then connecting to Battle.net gateway (Europe). Joined and played a 1v1 game right now without any troubles.

Battle.net Version 1.32.0.12712
StarCraft Remastered 1.23.8.9373
OS NixOS 20.03 (5.4.78 kernel)
wine 5.0 staging
prefix set to Windows 7
Intel Corporation UHD Graphics 620 (Whiskey Lake) (rev 02)

Have you tried letting it sit at the gateway selection for a few minutes? The UI can sometimes be very slow.

Yes, actually the culprit turned out to be Wine 6.3 staging.

UPDATE

Found out by suggestions of others that did encounter the issue, that the culprit was Wine 6.3 staging, which is shipped with my distribution.

I successfully ran StarCraft Remastered and the new BNet interface (which by the way with Wine 6.3-staging works just fine) through Steam's Proton wine (5.13) and it worked just as well, regardless of the Windows version I set.

I have not tested vanilla Wine, but given that I do have two versions, one that works and one that doesn't, I'll stick to the working version for the time being. My only question in this regard would be to wether of not report this as a bug (to the distribution's package maintainer), so that they in turn can sbmit it upstream or going upstream straight.

Hello,

I have the same problem with wine-staging 5.2 and 6.4 (on Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS, Starcraft 1.23.8.9373).

I can't connect to the Battle.net gateway, I get stuck with a "Connecting..." message. When launching the game, I get a pop-up "Downloading Settings" and sometimes another pop-up "Download failed" a few seconds later. Maybe it is related?

It was working with wine-staging 5.2 a few months ago (not sure of Starcraft's version at that time).

Any help would be appreciated

Cheers

spaaam

I have exactly the same problem using wine-staging 6.8. I think, however, that it is not dependant of wine versión but starcraft patches, because it started to fail since an upgrade from Battle.net.

It works with wine-staging-6.12!!

Whenever I invoke any "modern" (as opposed to vanilla) options menu either from the main screen or from when playing a game, the screen gets grayed out but nothing happens in the following 2-3 minutes. Then it displays the menu as expected.

Some other UI elements are taking abnormally long time to load: map preview, multiplayer setup, etc.

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Wine version: 5.11-staging

Also known as bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43011

Starting from the new version of wine (5.0), game doesn't start anymore.
After clicking on start button inside of Battle.Net nothing happens.
Currently on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - Xenial
It was working before the last update, I was using the Staging version,
now if I use wine-staging-5.7 it doesn't even run Battle.Net, nor winecfg starts.
Any ideas? How may I help in reporting the bug?
Thanks in advance!

Starcraft remastered was working perfectly until yesterday Blizzard releases a new patch (1.23.3.8122).

Now, I can start the game and navigate in the menu, but when I start a match, I see the first game frame and then it freezes and chrases, showing sometimes nothing and sometimes a classic windows error dialog.

It seems to work setting Windows version to Windows 2003 Server.

Great news:
- Battlenet no longer errors during start and web notifications window works correctly.
- SCRM runs great with window version set to Window7.
- Long menu pause on game setup menu is also fixed!
- Game runs very well using Intel Skylake GPU at 4K (desktop compositing turned off, Kubuntu 18.04) and even better using NVidia GPU's.

In wine staging 3.13, mouse confine does not seem to be working for me. Is it working for anyone else?
In windowed with mouse confine set to on the cursor is able to leave the game. And since I have dual monitors, in fullscreen and windowed (fullscreen) the cursor is able to move to the second monitor, leaving mouse scrolling on that side difficult.
I am pretty sure this was working with an earlier wine version, but I also updated other stuff with wine so I don't know if it is explicitly a wine bug.

I downloaded ies4linux here: dw.uptodown.com/dwn/0175KG_4spTW3dfYHa6zsfjoMGiK0fw7puEQetsfk0O-ZmEgB4lWaTnEregvHs_oqZF2GvAurvUd1bzzYEOlVpSEihtmhW0FxXJVEVimhk7GarJEZPUg5OWbqKTElION/kmVGBw56x2SJ_gWORIuKBGaZwWmafQk0Le6xqGWf1KirKoZUtEJqbaJIoUlBYdVc8xLCcHN9pOsdHDYZs0A_Kp3jDiAyEo_qIghJdvJ274t2nyaL9Lfdwd6gTqYKjto2/nSVTjXdFb6lpCR0qIUjhaK3-8UcA2BhGINTub76eY6Jfqq7jhpkDG6eBd7H16CUxwd8jYodI4nLsTdQS0ojDiSBdkc9z-STUq0VKNlAsnDf1Z-HzIYkXTmhKopY_n_-I/R_Xh0ZTaSGIUysDrDVHIVjjlEOeGaLwwHwxG7Ah--FA=/

It didn't have the dll's that are needed. Any other place I could get them??

Sorry, I didn't realize that ies4linux archive was an installer. When I run it on stage-3.10 it says:
"Your wine does not have wineprefixcreate installed. Maybe you are running an old Wine version. Try to update it to the latest version."

Hotkey for assigning troops (Ctrl+5) does not work.

Other Hotkey (Ctrl+1, Ctrl+2...) works correctly.

I use wine 3.4 staging.

This is an fcitx hotkey. Change it in the options.

thank you very uch

Strcraft is installed using wine-staging 2.21, x86 arch.

After autoupdate to 1.21.2.3514 version it no longer launches. Wine provides this log:

fixme:actctx:parse_requested_execution_level_elem unknown attr L"xmlns:ms_asmv3"=L"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3"
fixme:actctx:parse_requested_execution_level_elem unknown attr L"ms_asmv3:uiAccess"=L"false"
fixme:thread:create_user_shared_data_thread Creating user shared data update thread.
fixme:thread:NtCreateThreadEx 0x33bef0, 1f03ff, (nil), 0xffffffff, 0x10ac5390, (nil), 6, 0, 0, 0, (nil) semi-stub!
fixme:thread:NtCreateThreadEx 0x33bfb0, 1f03ff, (nil), 0xffffffff, 0x10ac5370, 0xfffffffe, 6, 0, 0, 0, (nil) semi-stub!
err:seh:setup_exception_record stack overflow 1376 bytes in thread 0009 eip 7bc67c86 esp 00240dd0 stack 0x240000-0x241000-0x340000
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

windows version in winecfg doesn't impact on error log.

Yeah, it's bug #44383

I was using wine staging 2.21. Starcraft was working flawlessly until yesterday.
I think Blizzard updated something: After updating, the game is not willing to start. Nothing is happening even though I execute starcraft.
I also tried wine 3.0. Starcraft Installation is fine. However, the game does not start.
Does anyone have the same issue?

Exactly same for me.

You can move useful information to HowTo/Notes and remove this comment:

== Installation ==
Simple steps to install and run StarCraft on Linux:
# Install and configure [[Wine]]
# Run winecfg
# On the drives tab, click Autodetect
# Click "Show Advanced"
# Select the drive letter representing your optical drive
# Change type to CD-ROM
# On the Audio tab, I had to click OSS Driver (instead of Alsa) and check "Driver Emulation"

Install StarCraft:
# mount starcraft disc ($ mount /media/dvd)
# cd /media/dvd
# wine install.exe (install as you normally would)

At this point, the game should run fine. My StarCraft disc installs an older version which only supports IPX networking. I downloaded the latest patch from blizzard and ran it using Wine. It patched StarCraft to allow TCP networking, which worked flawlessly.

== Troubleshooting ==
If game works slow try downloading cnc-ddraw from [hifi.iki.fi/cnc-ddraw/#download this page], placing in the game directory and overwriting library in winecfg for starcraft.

If the Audio tab could not detect OSS, even if you manually try to select this in regedit, you could try to use wine-staging from [aur.archlinux.org/packages/wine-staging/ this page]. Then, select the "Staging" tab and check "Enable Environmental Audio Extensions (EAX)".

I don't know if this is related to some settings I did, but I can recreate broken replays as follow:
1. Start a Custom Game (versus one AI)
2. Instantly save the game. quit mission
3. Load the game we just saved
4. play a regular game vs the AI
5. Watch the replay of the game (you can find it in the AutoSaves folder)

Now on my end, the replay is not even remotely close showing off what happenend in that game. Probes are idleing at the rally-point. Units from Gateways I produced are not being build etc.

I can't seem to bind to control group 5 by pressing CTRL+5... Not sure what's going on here. I'm fairly certain that it doesn't work in AoE either.

CTRL+1 through CTRL+9 all works, except CTRL+5. Anyone else observed this?

Ctrl+5 is a shortcut in fcitx for Reload configuration in Global Config (check Advance Option)

Installation hangs on the "Updating blizzard Agent..." window infinitely.
The error log is below. Also I installed staging, as recommended in thread.
Will appreciate any reasonable advice.


>>> WINEPREFIX=~/win32 wine StarCraft-Setup.exe

fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW Option 77 STUB
err:wininet:open_http_connection create_netconn failed: 12029
fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW Option 77 STUB
err:wininet:open_http_connection create_netconn failed: 12029
Object moved
Object moved to here.

fixme:module:load_library unsupported flag(s) used (flags: 0x00000800)
fixme:module:load_library unsupported flag(s) used (flags: 0x00000800)
fixme:module:load_library unsupported flag(s) used (flags: 0x00000800)
fixme:module:load_library unsupported flag(s) used (flags: 0x00000800)
fixme:module:load_library unsupported flag(s) used (flags: 0x00000800)
fixme:module:load_library unsupported flag(s) used (flags: 0x00000800)
fixme:module:load_dll Loader redirect from L"wined3d.dll" to L"wined3d-csmt.dll"
fixme:wbemprox:wbem_locator_ConnectServer unsupported flags
fixme:wbemprox:client_security_SetBlanket 0x7d7ec82c, 0x1500e0, 10, 0, (null), 3, 3, (nil), 0x00000000
fixme:wbemprox:client_security_Release 0x7d7ec82c
fixme:wbemprox:enum_class_object_Next timeout not supported
fixme:module:load_library unsupported flag(s) used (flags: 0x00000800)
fixme:ver:GetCurrentPackageId (0x1abe9a8 (nil)): stub
fixme:module:load_library unsupported flag(s) used (flags: 0x00000800)
err:winediag:wined3d_adapter_init GL_ARB_compatibility not supported, requesting context with GL version 3.2.
fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW Option 77 STUB
err:wininet:open_http_connection create_netconn failed: 12029
fixme:heap:GetPhysicallyInstalledSystemMemory stub: 0x33f888
err:winediag:wined3d_adapter_init GL_ARB_compatibility not supported, requesting context with GL version 3.2.
fixme:heap:GetPhysicallyInstalledSystemMemory stub: 0x33f548
fixme:winhttp:get_system_proxy_autoconfig_url no support on this platform
fixme:winhttp:WinHttpDetectAutoProxyConfigUrl discovery via DHCP not supported
fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW Option 77 STUB

Patch notes can be found here: us.battle.net/forums/en/starcraft/topic/20758817016

Patch notes can be found here: us.battle.net/forums/en/starcraft/topic/20758866215

So I've installed SC:R fine, but when I press the Play button, the battle.net app disappears for a few seconds, then comes back. If I check the console log, I get:

err:winediag:SECUR32_initNTLMSP ntlm_auth was not found or is outdated. Make sure that ntlm_auth >= 3.0.25 is in your path. Usually, you can find it in the winbind package of your distribution.
err:module:attach_process_dlls "ClientSdk.dll" failed to initialize, aborting
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"Z:\\storage\\local\\StarCraft\\StarCraft.exe" failed, status c0000094


My guess is that the "ClientSdk.dll failed to initialize" is the important bit, but I cannot work out what is going on to cause it to fail. Has anyone experienced this?

Running wine 2.3, 64-bit prefix set to Windows 10, Gentoo, nvidia-drivers 381.22. The exact same error happens if I try setting Wine to use Windows 7, 8 or 8.1
I can play SC2 and WoW run just fine, D3 is a bit laggy but also runs, so my system seems to be set up fine.

Howdy William,

Does it produce the same error if you set Wine to use Windows XP?

Best,
David Brooks

So I just tried with Wine set to Windows XP. I only get one piece of information printed, that being:

err:winediag:SECUR32_initNTLMSP ntlm_auth was not found or is outdated. Make sure that ntlm_auth >= 3.0.25 is in your path. Usually, you can find it in the winbind package of your distribution.

So the other two errors disappear. Also, StarCraft.exe doesn't terminate any more. I press Play, and battle.net disappears for a few seconds before coming back, but I can find StarCraft.exe in the list of running processes. This does not happen when Wine is set to Windows 8/8.1/10. Under those versions, the StarCraft.exe process terminates correctly.

Quite possibly I need to install samba to get ntlm_auth installed to remove this, I'm not sure why it would impact Starcraft though but I'll try it and see what happens.

I installed the winbind program (I'm using Ubuntu) to get rid of the error message. I'm not sure if that would fix the other issues though.

It seems like current test results are flagged as very old, when in fact they were done a day or two ago.

I chime in to confirm the game works as expected in Wine Staging 2.14, how ever two things are notorious, you HAVE to use Windows 2003 as the windows version, otherwise, if you try WinXP you get the old GetProcessWorkingSetSizeEx error message (Vista threw no error, but as 7 did get status c0000094, and .dll initialization error).

I was curious, though, has anyone running the game under Wine been able to run in fullscreen mode (no sidebars [letter box], and aspect set to widescreen)? Also all the Video settings in the 1.19 version seem to be greyed out, except for the double-buffering (I understand the HD graphics, as those are reserved for the Remaster).

Battle.net also works, as expected.

I guess we'll have to wait and see if the Remastered, when released tomorrow, will also run on this version, or if we'll have to wait another two cycles to get it... In the meantime, I keep my fingers crossed.

Did Remastered ran?

D:

Sorry I missed your comment.

YES!!! It runs just fine, with the same conditions.

HOWEVER, since Remaster now launches from the Blizzard App, you have to run the app with Windows XP mode, otherwise you won't see the PLAY button because you are presented with a banner which has to be closed. Once you close that, you can run in any other Windows version mode and see the Play button.

EVERYTHING works, campaign, single-player custom, Battle.net and LAN, I'll add a WineAppDB entry for the Remaster.

Thank you! Game was no longer starting after a Battle.net update. Updated to wine-staging 2.18 and changed Windows version to 2003 (using winecfg) and the game starts and plays again.

For those who need to do the same, see my other post where I created the ~/win32 dir with 32-bit architecture. Given that, running this brings up the config window where you can change your Windows version:
WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/win32 winecfg

I'm on Ubuntu 16.04. I was able to install and run the game and play on Battle.net, after some updates.

I downloaded the now-free Brood War 1.18 installer here:
starcraft.com/en-us/articles/20674424

At first when I tried an older version of Wine, I was able to install the game but could not run the game.
"The application encountered an unexpected error"

I tried using the "StarCraft Launcher.exe" and that alone did not work either.

I installed wine-staging (2.8) based on instructions here:
wine-staging.com/installation.html

After upgrading Wine I found I had to kill my existing wine server and related processes to use the newer version.
ps aux | grep wine | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs kill

Running my existing install with wine staging still didn't do the trick. I had the error below.

fixme:heap:RtlSetHeapInformation (nil) 1 (nil) 0 stub
fixme:winhttp:get_system_proxy_autoconfig_url no support on this platform
fixme:winhttp:WinHttpDetectAutoProxyConfigUrl discovery via DHCP not supported
Object moved
Object moved to here.

Object moved
Object moved to here.

^Cfixme:console:CONSOLE_DefaultHandler Terminating process 18f on event 0

These docs explained how to create a fresh wine directory configured for 32-bit architecture.
wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/wine#WINEARCH

Following those, I made a new wine directory like this:
WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/win32 winecfg

Then ran the StarCraft installer using that wine prefix:
WINEPREFIX=~/win32 wine StarCraft-Setup.exe

And everything ran perfectly from there, launched directly from the installer. I connected to Battle.net and played a multiplayer game.

Was also able to re-run the installed game again later like this:
WINEPREFIX=~/win32 wine ~/win32/drive_c/Program\ Files/StarCraft/StarCraft\ Launcher.exe

So in the end I did several things and am not sure which things were required, but I'm happy for now!

Did you need to be on the Windows 2003 OS?

I used Windows XP at the time, though the game it now warns me that XP is unsupported and asks me to install Windows 7.

Distro: Devuan GNU/Linux ascii
Kernel: 4.9.0-2-amd64 x86_64 (64 bit)
Desktop: i3 4.13
Graphics: Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480]
Display Server: X.Org 1.19.2; Driver: amdgpu; Resolution: 1920x1080@60.00hz
GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on AMD POLARIS10 (DRM 3.8.0 / 4.9.0-2-amd64, LLVM 3.9.1)
GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 13.0.6
Wine version: wine-2.7 (Staging)

When I try to run the game (32bit wineprefix with corefonts), It first tries to update, after updating it lets me click "Launch" but the game doesnt launch.
I have enabled "Hide Wine version from applications" in the "Staging" tab. Here is what I get in terminal when I try to launch it: paste.debian.net/hidden/8e3d6c82/