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Starcraft - Gives me no visual output

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starcraft is a game ive enjoyed for a long time and last time i played it was on windows. now im trying it on ubuntu feisty, with wine installed. starcraft installed amazingly fast, but when i started it up, its as if the computer was giving no visual output, and the monitor itself gave me an error message. basicly i could still hear the starcraft music in the background, but i couldnt see a thing. the only way to get out of this was to restart my computer manually :/
is there a way to fix this graphics problem?
Mark Knecht

Starcraft - Gives me no visual output

Post by Mark Knecht »

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 11:40 AM, pogoyoyo <[email protected]> wrote:
starcraft is a game ive enjoyed for a long time and last time i played it was on windows. now im trying it on ubuntu feisty, with wine installed. starcraft installed amazingly fast, but when i started it up, its as if the computer was giving no visual output, and the monitor itself gave me an error message. basicly i could still hear the starcraft music in the background, but i couldnt see a thing. the only way to get out of this was to restart my computer manually :/
is there a way to fix this graphics problem?
My son has run Starcraft here numerous times under Wine but not the
newer releases. We've not seen this problem. We have had a few
problems with audio and networking. I'll try installing this in the
next day and get back with what happens.

It might be helpful if you provided more system hardware info. What
graphics chip/driver are you using? Any other info you want to provide
would be welcomed.

Cheers,
Mark
William Punte

Starcraft - Gives me no visual output

Post by William Punte »

Is it possible that your monitor does not support the resolution
Starctaft is trying to set itself at? I know it is an older game, and is
probably either 640x480 or 800x600 by default. Can you trying having the
game run in a window and see if it starts for you?


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On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 11:40 AM, pogoyoyo <[email protected]>
wrote:
starcraft is a game ive enjoyed for a long time and last time i played
it was on windows. now im trying it on ubuntu feisty, with wine
installed. starcraft installed amazingly fast, but when i started it up,
its as if the computer was giving no visual output, and the monitor
itself gave me an error message. basicly i could still hear the
starcraft music in the background, but i couldnt see a thing. the only
way to get out of this was to restart my computer manually :/
is there a way to fix this graphics problem?
My son has run Starcraft here numerous times under Wine but not the
newer releases. We've not seen this problem. We have had a few
problems with audio and networking. I'll try installing this in the
next day and get back with what happens.

It might be helpful if you provided more system hardware info. What
graphics chip/driver are you using? Any other info you want to provide
would be welcomed.

Cheers,
Mark
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Post by pogoyoyo »

yeah i got my friend to run it in a separate window and it works properly, but the window is damn small and i cant get it bigger, and it just wont work full screen, no clue why.
could it be that i didnt install my graphics card or something? cuz all i did was install ubuntu from the CD and then i just started using it, i didnt do any installing of anything..
but if thats the case, then it shouldnt work in a separate window either, should it?
and i know my hardware can handle it cuz i ran it using windows lol
my friend said that my integrated graphics card ( yes i know, SHAT! but i wanna upgrade, no $$ ) might be the source of the problem?
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Starcraft - Gives me no visual output

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On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 2:55 PM, pogoyoyo <[email protected]> wrote:
yeah i got my friend to run it in a separate window and it works properly, but the window is damn small and i cant get it bigger, and it just wont work full screen, no clue why.
could it be that i didnt install my graphics card or something? cuz all i did was install ubuntu from the CD and then i just started using it, i didnt do any installing of anything..
but if thats the case, then it shouldnt work in a separate window either, should it?
and i know my hardware can handle it cuz i ran it using windows lol
my friend said that my integrated graphics card ( yes i know, SHAT! but i wanna upgrade, no $$ ) might be the source of the problem?
Try running the game in a virtual desktop (adjust to the size you
want), and run the game itself it its full screen mode.
Mark Knecht

Starcraft - Gives me no visual output

Post by Mark Knecht »

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 12:55 PM, pogoyoyo <[email protected]> wrote:
yeah i got my friend to run it in a separate window and it works properly, but the window is damn small and i cant get it bigger, and it just wont work full screen, no clue why.
could it be that i didnt install my graphics card or something? cuz all i did was install ubuntu from the CD and then i just started using it, i didnt do any installing of anything..
but if thats the case, then it shouldnt work in a separate window either, should it?
and i know my hardware can handle it cuz i ran it using windows lol
my friend said that my integrated graphics card ( yes i know, SHAT! but i wanna upgrade, no $$ ) might be the source of the problem?
What resolution is your desktop normally? What graphics device and
what driver are you using?

- Mark
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Re: Starcraft - Gives me no visual output

Post by vitamin »

pogoyoyo wrote:yeah i got my friend to run it in a separate window and it works properly, but the window is damn small and i cant get it bigger, and it just wont work full screen, no clue why.
could it be that i didnt install my graphics card or something?
Run 'xrandr' in the terminal and check if you have any 800x600 modes listed. If you don't then you need to configure your video card. Refer to your disrto's support for that (each has their own way to do it).
Mark Knecht

Starcraft - Gives me no visual output

Post by Mark Knecht »

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 11:40 AM, pogoyoyo <[email protected]> wrote:
starcraft is a game ive enjoyed for a long time and last time i played it was on windows. now im trying it on ubuntu feisty, with wine installed. starcraft installed amazingly fast, but when i started it up, its as if the computer was giving no visual output, and the monitor itself gave me an error message. basicly i could still hear the starcraft music in the background, but i couldnt see a thing. the only way to get out of this was to restart my computer manually :/
is there a way to fix this graphics problem?
Hi,
OK, I got around to testing this problem this morning. I had
exactly the same issue when I started. StartCraft installed correctly
but when I started it I got sound and no video. The problem, in my
case, wasn't Wine but rather my X configuration. Once I fixed that
StarCraft worked perfectly on Wine-0.9.57.

In my case I am using a Samsung SyncMaster 172s. My xorg.conf file
had 'reasonable' values for horizontal and vertical sync, but not the
'exact' right values. I was 'close', but not perfect, at least
according to my monitor's manual.

I changed my xorg.conf file to use the exact values in the manual
and restarted X. StarCraft then started and ran perfectly.

I do not think there is any problem with Wine-0.9.57 runing StarCraft.

Cheers,
Mark
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