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: | 22 |
| Latest Rating: | Silver |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 9.10 |
Maintainers: About Maintainership
What works
Installation of downloader into wineskin.
Download of full installer from Blizzard once the wineskin is launched.
Launching the installer post download.
Launching App post install.
Intro cut scene.
StarEdit - resolution is poor.
Multiplayer - connects to BattleNet and fetches update 1.16.1, other connection options seem available.
Single player campaign also starts.
What does not
Switching back to main app from StarEdit seems to cause a hang, and causes the screen to return to normal resolution, with StarCraft becoming a non-windowed area taking up the upper left corner of the screen.
Keyboard input is ignored (possibly due to post BattleNet update).
Workarounds
What was not tested
Keyboard input before BattleNet update.
Actual gameplay in single player and multi player (tough without keyboard support).
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
Once the installer has downloaded (an exe file) and unpacked, if you show the contents of the wineskin package, it also contains the native macintosh installer. Running that from inside the wineskin will install a fully working native version of StarCraft into the normal Macintosh directory.
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | Linux Mint 21.3 | Jun 04 2024 | 9.10 | Yes | Yes | No | Silver | Bobby Yu | |
| Show | Arch Linux x86_64 | Mar 23 2023 | 8.4 | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | Jzo4 | |
| Show | NixOS 22.05 (Quokka) | Feb 12 2023 | 7.8-staging | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | Alexander | |
| Show | NixOS 21.11 (Porcupine) | Apr 19 2022 | 6.22-staging | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | Alexander | |
| Show | Ubuntu 20.04 "Focal" (+ variants like Kubuntu) | May 08 2021 | 6.8 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Garbage | Scott |
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
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by Dmytro Bagrii on Sunday February 12th 2023, 2:55
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".
by ArchPhénix on Tuesday February 14th 2023, 16:51
by Alexander on Wednesday February 15th 2023, 1:56
by Dmytro Bagrii on Wednesday February 15th 2023, 4:11
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.