Starcraft It is one of the most additive games that I have tried and despite the years it is still one of the Strategy games in real time most played worldwide. In this article we will teach how to install starcraft on linux and we will also benefit from an excellent promotion so that we do not have to pay for the license.
How many will know to be able to download this game we must pay for its license, but these days the company that develops Starcraft has put a promotion so that we can download the game for free until the changes that are being developed to update the game are released .
What is Starcraft?
It's a Strategy game in real time made by Blizzard Entertainment which is distributed for Windows and Mac but can be used on Linux thanks to Wine. This game, which has been on the market for more than two decades, has three species as its main players: Terran (humans who were expelled from the earth), the Zerg (A species that is organized in swarms) and the Protoss (a species with psionic powers and great technology) and develops with an environment that dates back to the XXVI century.
It has an acceptable graphical appearance and can be played locally or online, where multiplayer games abound. In it, players must focus on collecting the only two resources available (mineral and vespene gas), with which they can build everything they need to survive and win.
How to download Starcraft for free and legally
Thanks to the celebration of the two decades of Starcraft the company has launched the version Starcraft remastered, in which the quality of the graphics and audio are improved, but added to this it has offered the possibility of downloading it for free. To download Starcraft II for free and legally, we only have to enter the following link and download it, we will not be charged a penny.
With this we can play both the local and online versions for free and without any limitations.
How to install Starcraft on Linux
There are various methods to install Starcraft on Linux, the one that I used to take advantage of the installer that I had downloaded is to use wine directly. After downloading the installer (version for windows) I gave it to run with wine, it asked me for permission to download certain dependencies and then the installer was run in the traditional way.
Once the dependencies were downloaded and the 1.6 GB that the game occupies downloaded, I was able to run the game without any problem, I have a resolution problem due to the simple fact that I do not have the drivers for my video card, but everything works at the same time. perfection.
This article is wrong it is not the Starcraft II, it is the first Starcraft.
That's because Starcraft II doesn't need to be Remastered yet, and the first one has already been Remastered.
Supposed to Support OpenGL
So you should not have graphics and / or performance problems.
Indeed you are right it is the first Starcraft, I have corrected it, certainly I still have some resolution problems, I will see why (I have it in manjaro) ... It has been corrected
If you use Nvidia, preferably use the proprietary driver, and if you use Intel you should have no problems. unfortunately the only AMD / ATI GPU that I want to test can never be obtained. The "ATI Radeon HD 4670"
But what I do not doubt is that if you want to be able to get all the performance out of your GPU, you should first look for how to create a custom "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" file for that, and if necessary depending on the version of Linux in use, find out what command lines during boot can help you optimize the use of the GPU
As the colleague said, it is Starcraft: Brood War adapted to Windows 8/10, and it is free for those who have an account on Battle.net
And does it work well for you?
I get the following error:
err: module: attach_process_dlls "ClientSdk.dll" failed to initialize, aborting
err: module: LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L »F: \ StarCraft \ StarCraft.exe» failed, status c0000094
regards
Yes (something I must limit is that I already had the battle.net client installed with playonLinux), I don't know if that affects.
I have not been able to make it work, do you have the version of wine you are using and what else did you install apart from battle.net?
regards
It is not a limited time promotion, they released it forever. In the middle of the year a remastered version will be released that will be paid, but the original version will remain free (and compatible with the remastered one).
Could you play online?
I have followed the installation with wine. When the download and installation is complete, clicking on the icon to start the game or call it from the console does nothing. Debian OS 8
The same happens to me. Debian 8 XFCE - Core i5-4460.
Still, the game does not start. Already reported https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42741
The same happens to me…. Does nothing on Kubuntu 16.04
regards
Hello, I also got the error «…“ ClientSdk.dll ”failed to initialize,…» I have Ubuntu 16.04 I don't have Battle.net installed yet. it can be that? could someone fix it?
Very good ... very good ... I have finally managed to install StarCraft after many laps in Linux.
I still have the problem of taking advantage of the entire screen in the game ... any suggestions to win the lateral margins that come out in black?
Thank you very much.
That if I have not achieved it yet, but in the afternoon - night I will try to see how I can solve it
How to install starcraft remastered on linux ubuntu here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgYtp-voypA