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?
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 11:40 AM, pogoyoyo <wineforum-user at winehq.org> 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
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 $$ ) might be the source of the problem?
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 2:55 PM, pogoyoyo <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> yeah i got my friend to run it in a separate window and it works properly, but the window is damn small and i cant get it bigger, and it just wont work full screen, no clue why. > could it be that i didnt install my graphics card or something? cuz all i did was install ubuntu from the CD and then i just started using it, i didnt do any installing of anything.. > but if thats the case, then it shouldnt work in a separate window either, should it? > and i know my hardware can handle it cuz i ran it using windows lol > my friend said that my integrated graphics card ( yes i know, SHAT! but i wanna upgrade, no $$ ) 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.
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 12:55 PM, pogoyoyo <wineforum-user at winehq.org> 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
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).
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 11:40 AM, pogoyoyo <wineforum-user at winehq.org> 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