Installing game(starcraft II beta)

[Fosterr334]

Hi
I just got my starcraft II beta key today and I have to tryed to install it but when I use wine-doors to install I get a window with files but whenever I choose the location I wish to download to it says invalid. Sooo I was wondering if any one could help me.
Thanks

[Fosterr334]

Thank you for the help but i just have one problem the 3rd line of code when i type it in i get a error message saying:

{{patch unexpectedly ends in middle of line}}
{{patch: **** only garbage was found in patch input}}

so I was wondering if I had to to add something like a direction.

thanks!

[Fosterr334]

Hi
Sorry for the double post but I typed in the rest of the code and it got the download to work but after that when I try to download the new SCII patch I get problems and it just keeps show a message with a red circle with a "X" message in it and then it finishes then restarts the download never allowing me to to click play so I don't no if i need to do something about that?

[Fosterr334]

bump

Please help I really want to play starcraft II beta I still can't download the patch successfully.

[Admin-Amir]

Hello Fosterr334.

Please try this HOWTO.

HOWTO

This is a short tutorial on how to run the Starcraft II Beta under Wine. The tutorial assumes that you run Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic), but it can be modified to work with other distributions as well. The Beta installer works just fine under the latest development release of wine (1.1.40) but sc2 will crash on the login screen. Because of this we'll have to download the sources for wine, patch them manually and compile. We'll do all this through the terminal (Alt + F2, type gnome-terminal + ENTER), just copy and paste the commands I give here should work flawlessly. Sometimes I post links with more info, if a command doesn't work you might want to follow that link and see if it contains help on your issue. Please mention your problem and solution and I'll update the Howto accordingly.

First we need to install git since that is needed to fetch the wine sources:

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sudo aptitude install git

Next step is to download the latest wine code to a directory and change to that. This may take awhile.

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git clone git://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git ~/wine-git && cd ~/wine-git

More info: http://wiki.winehq.org/GitWine?actio...daafaecc72ad18

Next we have to patch wine with a fix for the login screen crash:

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wget -q -O - http://phyrex1an.net/sc2-login.diff | patch -p1

This will download a patch from my server and apply it to the wine sources. The patch isn't written by me but only packaged in a format that the patch program supports. Original can be found here: http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine...ch/085817.html
More info: http://wiki.winehq.org/Patching

We're now almost ready to start compiling, but first we need all build dependencies and some build tools:

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sudo aptitude install build-essential

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sudo apt-get build-dep wine

We can now start the build process:

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tools/make_requests && ./configure && make depend && make

And finally install it:

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sudo make install

Now, restart wineserver so you can log into Battle.Net.

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wineserver -k

Now, you can either install it (if you don't have trouble reading the terms of agreement) or, if you have an installation of it on another computer or OS, copy the files.
However, there's still some stuff to do before the game runs smoothly:

Fixing forever loading times
Starting a game takes forever with certain settings in wine.
To fix this you have to change the emulator mode to either Vista or Windows 7:

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winecfg

Under the Applications tab change the Windows Version to either Vista or Windows 7.

Fixing sound
Starcraft II uses the mmdevapi which is only partly implemented in Wine, disabling that library will enable the fallback audio system that works perfectly (I'm unsure if this is a wine fallback or a sc2 one, regardless I haven't noticed any problems with it)

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winecfg

Press Libraries tab, add a new override for mmdevapi and edit it to Disabled.

If you have stuttering (and are using pulseaudio), in winecfg, set audio driver to OSS, and Hardware Acceleration to 'Emulation'.

[Fosterr334]

lol great
well I have typed in the code about 3 times now thinking I may have missed something. Btw I don't really thinks this matters but I am running Ultimate Edition 2.5. Anyways along with the code in the third line of code is have received a new message after the first time. Also the link to the original patch under the third line of code seems to be down because when I click it nothing pops up. Last think is now it stops my download when it hits error and no longer loops.Thanks a bunch for the help so far I truly appreciate it

Heres the message im am getting


ryan@ryan-laptop:~$ wget -q -O - http://phyrex1an.net/sc2-login.diff | patch -p1
can't find file to patch at input line 10
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|---
| dlls/kernel32/tests/debugger.c | 98 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
| dlls/ntdll/loader.c | 7 ++-
| 2 files changed, 101 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
|
|diff --git a/dlls/kernel32/tests/debugger.c b/dlls/kernel32/tests/debugger.c
|index 057b977..f9b3889 100644
|--- a/dlls/kernel32/tests/debugger.c
|+++ b/dlls/kernel32/tests/debugger.c
--------------------------
File to patch: ^[

[Admin-Amir]

Blackwolf It is the same post , with the same bug issue in the Game.
They did not solved the bug yet.
Any way here it is all over the same HOWTO with the same bug that did not get solution yet.

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... &iId=11123

BUG = http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-bu ... 21781.html

Just Quick Answer to try here:

probably it also needs a folder called:
"StarCraft II Beta enUS 13891 Installer"

inside the folder you put as "Path"

Just in case create the following empty files:
Installer.exe.part
Installer Tome 1.MPQ.part
Installer UI 1.MPQ.part
Installer UI 2.MPQ.part

And some of the fix that add to the new wine :
http://source.winehq.org/source/ANNOUNCE

22088 Starcraft II loading screen bar is messed up
22096 Starcraft II - crashes on launch if '-showfps=1' is used
22098 Starcraft II has missing effects on main menu

[Fosterr334]

So all I need to do is update my Wine? how do I do that downloaded the files I don't how you update or even install?

EDIT
i tried using Google to find how to upgrade heres the link i used.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=624644
Unfortunately it didn't change a thing so I don't think I upgraded.

[Fosterr334]

BUMP still need help with post above.

[Fosterr334]

HI
Well have upgraded to 2.6 but... starcraft II is still not working... patch still wont download...
Any advice?