Hello all. I have a question that Ill bet nobody has ever asked before. How can I get Starcraft to run at full speed? Seriously, it would be nice to nail down the answer to this question. I have searched all over the web and people say all kinds of things about Starcraft and Wine. Some people say it runs fast. Nobody has a clear answer. I have a P3-800 with RedHat7 and 384Mb ram. I am running Starcraft at 640x480x16bpp under XFree86 4.0 on a custom 2.4.9 kernel. I have a Voodoo3 3000 video card (or a Riva TNT) - yes they are both old. I am running BroodWars and I like to play Battlenet. I have tested the October and November 2003 releases of Wine. They work, but they tend to lag games on battlenet. The bottleneck seems to be video performance. What I have learned: 1. 16bpp color is a must. At 8bpp, Starcraft cant allocate enough colors, and it is visually unplayable. 2. The only Wine performance options Ive found are for anti-aliased fonts. There are Render, Core, and XServer font modes, but I have no idea which is fastest. 3. Turning off sound does little to improve performance. 4. Starting a bare xinit or startx session does little. 5. nice`ing (changing the priority of) Wine or X does little. If the game does happen to run faster, the mouse is pre-empted and it is unusable. 6. DGA (direct graphics mode) is supposed to be wicked fast, but it doesnt work for me (Voodoo3+Xfree4). I installed Starcraft as root but it crashes when DGA is enabled. 7. The 2003.12.12 version of Wine doesnt seem to work at all. November and october do work. Some people say that Wines Starcraft compatibility gets worse over time. I would be interested to know if any versions of Wine are very good with Starcraft. Also, how is the BSD version of Wine? What makes Wine run fast, and can I get it to run faster with the hardware I have? -Mike __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
