How to install Starcraft?

[openbox]

Can someone help me how to install my starcraft through wine? can some one elaborate the step of installing... thanks!

[_neverstop]

Google sometimes helps:

Run World of Warcraft on Linux with CrossOver - Installing CrossOver Linux and WoW - OS, Software & Networking by ExtremeTech

[i92guboj]

Google sometimes helps:

Run World of Warcraft on Linux with CrossOver - Installing CrossOver Linux and WoW - OS, Software & Networking by ExtremeTech

Yep. Except that he did not mention crossover, but plain wine, which is perfectly capable of running starcraft (he didn't mention world of warcraft either, but starcraft):

Wine AppDB - Search results

openbox, I don't think you need anything special to get starcraft working. Just put in your starcraft cdrom, make sure that wine is installed, then use wine to launch the setup.exe file or whatever it's called. It should install without any big problem.

Then go to the relevant directory under "~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/" and look for the starcraft directory, and then for the exe launcher inside of it.

Are you having any concrete problem installing it?

[openbox]

debian:/media/My Disc/starcraft# wine /media/My\ Disc/starcraft/INSTALL.EXE

Invoking /usr/lib/wine/wine.bin /media/My Disc/starcraft/INSTALL.EXE ...
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

err:dc:CreateDCW no driver found for L"WINEPS.DRV"
fixme:winspool:AddPrinterW DocumentPropertiesW on printer 'L"hp_LaserJet_1010"' fails
err:dc:CreateDCW no driver found for L"WINEPS.DRV"
err:imagelist:ImageList_ReplaceIcon no color!
err:imagelist:ImageList_ReplaceIcon no color!
err:imagelist:ImageList_ReplaceIcon no color!
err:imagelist:ImageList_ReplaceIcon no color!
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
Make sure that your X server is running and that $DISPLAY is set correctly.
Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
Make sure that your X server is running and that $DISPLAY is set correctly.
fixme:winmm:MMDRV_Exit Closing while ll-driver open
fixme:winmm:MMDRV_Exit Closing while ll-driver open
Wine failed with return code 1



this is what happen when i type this [B]debian:/media/My Disc/starcraft# wine /media/My\ Disc/starcraft/INSTALL.EXE[B]

is this correct?

[coopstah13]

its because you are trying to install as root
install as the user you will run the program as, wine doesn't need root for installation

[i92guboj]

The owner of the X session and the shell you are using to install the game must be the same, so wine can connect to the display. So, login as normal user, open a terminal window, with normal user privileges (not as root) and run the installation program again.

its because you are trying to install as root
install as the user you will run the program as, wine doesn't need root for installation

Using a wine program as root make your whole linux box just almost as vulnerable as you are on windows. Remember: any malicious software will run with the same privileges of the user running that software. So, if a problematic program runs under wine with root privileges, then you are potentially allowing it to make whatever it wants with your whole system.

This is why you shouldn't use root, unless you have to. And you usually don't have to.

[openbox]

i have a problem when i load starcraft

Direct Draw Error comes out

do i have to install Direct X? i havn't install any VGA.

[Dapper Dan]

openbox, what video card are you using? Did you install 3d drivers? Or, are you using the "generic" drivers that came with your installation?

[i92guboj]

i have a problem when i load starcraft

Direct Draw Error comes out

do i have to install Direct X? i havn't install any VGA.

You don't have to install directx (and it wouldn't help either). Wine implements it's own version of the directx api (well, some pieces).

I'd start checking that your video drivers are in order, as someone suggested above. If you plan to game, make sure you are using whatever drivers offer the best performance for 3d acceleration (in ati and nvidia, that would be the propietary drivers that the manufacturer offers: flgrx and nvidia respectively).

[coopstah13]

also if the game allows rendering in opengl, i would recommend you enable that as the native opengl performance will be VASTLY superior to the wine directx implementation