starcraft disappointment.

koihoshi · Post by **koihoshi** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 4:28 pm

I've tried everything i can think of and looked and tried a ton of hints on the page for it.

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... on&iId=149

Under "Starcraft is soooooo sloowwwwww (that's me)"

Posted up my log and everything. I tried updates, wine updates, registry changes, switched from opengl to the default, back and forth. There are times starcraft would physically run great with a blank screen, i could hear the navigation go quickly but to no avail.

I'm running ubuntu 8.10 with the newest version of wine 1.1.16.

I've noticed that it runs SLIGHTLY faster if i literally take all of my ubunto desktop effects off but it's not by much, it's noticeable but not playable by leisure. Thus far my games have played wonderfully. SC is giving me the trouble and i'm a hell of an SC fan

John Drescher · Post by **John Drescher** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 4:41 pm

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 5:28 PM, koihoshi <[email protected]> wrote:

I've tried everything i can think of and looked and tried a ton of hints on the page for it.

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... on&iId=149

Under "Starcraft is soooooo sloowwwwww (that's me)"

Posted up my log and everything. I tried updates, wine updates, registry changes, switched from opengl to the default, back and forth. There are times starcraft would physically run great with a blank screen, i could hear the navigation go quickly but to no avail.

I'm running ubuntu 8.10 with the newest version of wine 1.1.16.

I've noticed that it runs SLIGHTLY faster if i literally take all of my ubunto desktop effects off but it's not by much, it's noticeable but not playable by leisure. Thus far my games have played wonderfully. SC is giving me the trouble and i'm a hell of an SC fan

I have run this in wine 5 or 6 years ago on a low end card (gforce 2?)
of that era without problems. My first question is do you have a
nVidia graphics card? And are the nVidia proprietary drivers
installed? Are you running full screen 640x480 8 or 16 bit?

John

koihoshi · Post by **koihoshi** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 4:48 pm

Using a Radeon 9800 SE as listed in the linked thread above. 1.2ghz and about 600+mb ram.

Regarding the screen size are you talking the x desktop and depth, or are you talking the wine emulated desktop/depth?

John Drescher · Post by **John Drescher** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 4:56 pm

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 5:48 PM, koihoshi <[email protected]> wrote:

Using a Radeon 9800 SE as listed in the linked thread above. 1.2ghz and about 600+mb ram.

Regarding the screen size are you talking the x desktop and depth, or are you talking the wine emulated desktop/depth?

I am talking about the X desktop that runs starcraft. Its been a long
time since I played but I remember it was best to be fullscreen to get
good performance.

koihoshi · Post by **koihoshi** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 5:03 pm

i've tried fullscreen. it only runs "semi-smooth" if i take literally all ubuntu desktop effects off, put it on opengl for the ddrenderer. Tried defaults, etc. Nothing seems to be an absolute. I haven't tried setting the x desktop depth to 8, but can i? i read somewhere that with a radeon card i can't? i'll try that tonight.