StarCraft @ Shiar.nl

Wine compatibility

Replay speed comparison

The time it takes to play 20080808bn2x2 at maximum (fastestx16) speed. Once without giving any input, once while keeping an overlord selected and frequently scrolling about (using the minimap).

System	Version	Minimal time			Maximal time
GeForce FX5200	cedega 6.0.1 8bpp		0′37″	100%	0′37″	100%
GeForce 7900GT	wine 1.1.20 opengl *tex		0′37″	100%	0′37″	100%
Matrox P650	windows XP SP3 24bpp		0′37″	100%	0′37″	100%
Radeon 9550	mac 10.4.11 32bpp		0′37″	100%	0′37″	100%
Intel GMA X4500HD	wine 1.1.24 gdi	sluggish	0′37″	100%	0′55″	67%
GeForce FX5200	wine 1.0.0 opengl *tex	sluggish	0′37″	100%	1′12″	51%
GeForce 7900GT	wine 1.0.1 gdi	sluggish	0′37″	100%	1′40″	37%
GeForce 7900GT	wine 1.0.1 opengl *draw	sluggish	0′37″	100%	2′12″	28%
GeForce FX5200	cedega 6.0.1 16bpp	slow	0′46″	80%	2′43″	23%
GeForce FX5200	wine 1.0.0 gdi	slow	0′49″	76%	3′38″	17%
Radeon 9200pro	wine 1.0.0 gdi	slow	1′03″	59%	5′25″	11%
GeForce FX5200	wine 1.0.0 opengl *draw	slow	1′44″	36%	20′00″	3%
Radeon 9200pro	wine 1.0.0 opengl *tex	slow	2′19″	27%	28′00″	2%
Intel GMA X4500HD	wine 1.1.24 opengl *tex	slow	80′03″	1%	untested
Radeon 9200pro	cedega 6.0.1 16bpp	random crashes with new xorg	0′37″	100%	0′37″	100%
GeForce 7900GT	wine 1.0.1 opengl *tex	corrupt palette	0′37″	100%	0′37″	100%
GeForce 7900GT	cedega 6.0.1 16bpp	random crashes with new xorg	0′37″	100%	0′37″	100%

Current status

Cedega is still the only fast option due to its native DIB implementation. Wine has more recently been making progress though: depending on video capabilities, offloading to opengl can be decently fast as well, and work has finally started on a proper DIB engine (planned for 1.2, though delays have happened before).

Unfortunately, after recent upgrades Cedega v6.0.1 started crashing frequently, making it fast but basically unusable. OTOH, Wine seems to actually work reliably nowadays, except for its inferior efficiency (less of an issue with fast modern PCs) and corrupt battle.net menus (doesn't impact gameplay).

Cedega setup

With radeon cards (upto R200 at least) choice of WM and colour depth is not an issue.

For GeForces, you'll want the proprietary nvidia driver (nv is shit), preferably at 8 bit colour depth. Seems like only twm provides correct palette behaviour, but that should be fine with the following .twmrc contents:

NoTitle {  # windows to show without title bar
	"Cedega*"
	"Cedega DirectDraw HAL"
	"Wine"
}
ClientBorderWidth  # no border
RandomPlacement  # do not wait for user click
UsePPosition "on"

Despite RandomPlacement, you still need to click once before usage.