wine + starcraft = bad

**RastaMahata** · February 3rd, 2005

I recently installed wine to try out starcraft and warcraft 3.

Surprisingly enough, starcraft ran slow, and warcraft3 was a breeze...

i tried the nice -n 20 thing, but the sound was choppy, without it, it ran damn slow.

Why is an old game running worse than a new one? I also tried cedega cvs, same problem... is there something screwing starcraft or something? also, worms armageddon runs damn slow...

What's wrong?! will this be fixed in warty? or soon enough?

**jdodson** · February 3rd, 2005

Originally Posted by RastaMahata

I recently installed wine to try out starcraft and warcraft 3.

Surprisingly enough, starcraft ran slow, and warcraft3 was a breeze...

i tried the nice -n 20 thing, but the sound was choppy, without it, it ran damn slow.

Why is an old game running worse than a new one? I also tried cedega cvs, same problem... is there something screwing starcraft or something? also, worms armageddon runs damn slow...

What's wrong?! will this be fixed in warty? or soon enough?

it is not a warty problem, it is a wine/cedega problem.

the next version of ubuntu might contain a new version of wine that fixes the issue.

**Botsinge** · February 4th, 2005

I've had the same problem with StarCraft a couple of months ago, if I remember corretly you have to disable "Accelerated Interprocess Communication" to get it to run smooth.

**RastaMahata** · February 4th, 2005

where could I find that option?

**Botsinge** · February 4th, 2005

If you're running Cedega it's the third option from the end in properties for the shortcut.

In ordinarie Wine I don't really know, I can't find it (at least in my config). In my Cedega-config the option is located under Wineserver and is called:

Code:

[Wineserver]
"SHMWineserver" = "N"

If it's of any help.

EDIT: The options I'm talking about is from the Cedega GUI Point2Play.

**RastaMahata** · February 5th, 2005

Originally Posted by Botsinge

If you're running Cedega it's the third option from the end in properties for the shortcut.

In ordinarie Wine I don't really know, I can't find it (at least in my config). In my Cedega-config the option is located under Wineserver and is called:

Code:

[Wineserver]
"SHMWineserver" = "N"

If it's of any help.

EDIT: The options I'm talking about is from the Cedega GUI Point2Play.

Nope, didnt work!

**HaloGray** · February 11th, 2005

Sorry for the slight thread revival, but I got Starcraft running pretty smooth by disabling the mouse catcher option in /home/username/.wine/config

It also allows things to run in windowed mode and still capture keyboard commands.

Find:
"DXGrab" = "Y"

Replace with:
"DXGrab" = "N"

Hopefully it improves for you.

FYI - I'm using straight wine, which I configured with ease thanks to winetools. I'm not using winex/cedega and have no suggestions for those who are.

I'm using wine version: 20050111-1

**RastaMahata** · February 12th, 2005

Originally Posted by HaloGray

Sorry for the slight thread revival, but I got Starcraft running pretty smooth by disabling the mouse catcher option in /home/username/.wine/config

It also allows things to run in windowed mode and still capture keyboard commands.

Find:
"DXGrab" = "Y"

Replace with:
"DXGrab" = "N"

Hopefully it improves for you.

FYI - I'm using straight wine, which I configured with ease thanks to winetools. I'm not using winex/cedega and have no suggestions for those who are.

I'm using wine version: 20050111-1

I suppose winetools is apt-gettable?