Starcraft CD test on wine?

[reub2000]

How do you get the CD test to not fail when using StarCraft on wine?

[kbi]

I have a dual boot system with 3 hd. I run starcraft off of my windows patition where it is installed. Here's how I do it:

In .wine/config you want something like:
"Path" = "c:\\windows;c:\\windows\\system;d:\\;e:\\;f:\\"

~/.wine/dosdevices $ ls -l
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 kbi users 9 Jul 15 23:25 c: -> /mnt/hdc1 (my 3rd hd is my windows boot partition)
lrwxrwxrwx 1 kbi users 9 Aug 2 00:18 d: -> /mnt/iso1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 kbi users 9 Aug 2 00:12 e: -> /mnt/iso2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 kbi users 9 Aug 16 14:46 f: -> /mnt/iso3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 kbi users 4 Aug 18 17:36 g: -> /tmp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 kbi users 9 Aug 18 18:25 h: -> /mnt/hdb1 (windows partition on my 2nd hd were I have starcraft installed)

~/.wine/dosdevices $ mount -o loop /home/kbi/storage/starcraft.iso /mnt/iso1 (might have to do it as root)
~/.wine/dosdevices $ mount -o loop /home/kbi/storage/broodwars.iso /mnt/iso2 (if you want to play bw too)
~/.wine/dosdevices $ cd /mnt/hdb1/Program\ Files/Starcraft

/mnt/hdb1/Program Files/Starcraft $ wine ./Starcraft

[reub2000]

But you couldn't save replays that way, unless you used vfat for the windows partition.

[KK_r]

can't you use a nocd-crack? There is cracks that support battle.net games...
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[reub2000]

[KK_r]

what do you think they could do? they can't even give you virus because you don't run windows. And it's not pirate groups, many people including me use nocd crack with their bought games.
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[reub2000]

Found the problem. Wine moved it's configuration from ~/.wine/config to some mysterious place. So the CD drive that I thought was configured through ~/.wine/config wasn't acctually configured. Ran winecfg and configured the CD drive. So now it passes the CD test, but is slow, and only runs in windowed mode.

[kbi]

I'm not a Wine expert. It runs full screen for me. Here's the part of my config that looks like it might govern that.

[x11drv]
; Number of colors to allocate from the system palette
"AllocSystemColors" = "100"
; Use a private color map
"PrivateColorMap" = "N"
; Favor correctness over speed in some graphics operations
"PerfectGraphics" = "N"
; Color depth to use on multi-depth screens
;;"ScreenDepth" = "16"
; Allow the window manager to manage created windows
"Managed" = "N"
; Use a desktop window of 640x480 for Wine
;"Desktop" = "640x480"
; Use XFree86 DGA extension if present
; (make sure /dev/mem is accessible by you !)
"UseDGA" = "N"
; Use XVidMode extension if present
"UseXVidMode" = "Y"
; Use XRandR extension if present
"UseXRandR" = "Y"
; Use the take focus protocol
"UseTakeFocus" = "Y"
; Enable DirectX mouse grab
"DXGrab" = "Y"
; Create the desktop window with a double-buffered visual
; (useful to play OpenGL games)
"DesktopDoubleBuffered" = "N"
; Run in synchronous mode (useful for debugging X11 problems)
;;"Synchronous" = "Y"
;
; Use the Render extension to render client side fonts (default "Y")
;;"ClientSideWithRender" = "Y"
; Fallback on X core requests to render client side fonts (default "Y")
;;"ClientSideWithCore" = "Y"
; Set both of the previous two to "N" in order to force X11 server side fonts
;
; Anti-alias fonts if using the Render extension (default "Y")
;;"ClientSideAntiAliasWithRender" = "Y"
; Anti-alias fonts if using core requests fallback (default "Y")
;;"ClientSideAntiAliasWithCore" = "Y"

Hope that might help.

[reub2000]

Disabling my second monitor and and xinerama, starcraft plays fine in fullscreen mode.

I swear that this dual-head setup has been nothing but trouble.