I need somebody... not just anybody... you know I need someone

[Ender]

I am trying to get on Battle.net through Starcraft on Linux. I got singleplayer working but I can't get on battle.net. I get to the server list, go to useast, and then it sort of crashes.

It shows the username-password screen with black boxes for username and password and red buttons below. But on this screen there is no text (such as the "username" descriptor above the username textarea), and it doesn't let me enter any text, and it doesn't respond when I click on the red buttons.

It may be a fonts issue (as most sources indicate) but I've tried all kinds of solutions and none of them have worked, like

1. Copying C:/WINDOWS/Fonts/* to .wine/drive_c/windows/fonts
2. sudo apt-get install [core windows fonts]
3. Temporarily removing certain fonts that allegedly make it not work
4. An older version of winetools (the only version of which worked for my updated version of wine). It let me install TrueType fonts but failed in installing Microsoft Foundations Classes 4.0 (which some internet post said I should install).

Has anyone got Starcraft bnet working on Linux? Anyone know how I can get it working?

Here's a picture of the "crash". This time it didn't make it to the username-password menu, it just got stuck on the part before that, where it would normally say "connecting to battle.net...". Ignore the red glare from the light outside.

http://www.x86labs.org/ender/crash.jpg

[Blaze]

Was one topic not good enough?  :P

[Newby]

use microsoft xp

TROLL'D

EDIT (since I'm above Ender's level ^^) --

Has anyone got Starcraft bnet working on Linux? Anyone know how I can get it working?

Yes. No. It worked out-of-the-box for me. Your mileage for anything in Wine will vary. Consider cedega.

On a side note, who gave you access to x86labs.org!?!?

[Falcon]

It depends on the distro you use and Wine version, I remember it wouldn't work for me on Ubuntu but worked fine on Slackware and Arch, the only problem is that the battle.net menus don't redraw correctly but everything in a game displayed fine. I think Wine version 0.9.15 was the one that worked, see if you can find that somewhere.

[Ender]

Full gratitude to Falcon, half gratitude to Newby, zero gratitude to Blaze.

If anyone else has advice please tell it's not resolved yet... though I will try cedega.

[Ender]

Consider cedega.

WTF?!

You suggested proprietary software?!

I vote to ban Newby from the clan.

[Newby]

You linked me to proprietary software?!

You don't need to buy it. IIRC you could access it via cvs/svn/whatever.

[iago]

Depending on how Wine implemented shared libraries, there's a good chance that Battle.net's lockdown wouldn't work with Wine, because Linux by default has address space layout randomization, and Starcraft makes assumptions about where libraries are loaded from.

If Wine implemented libraries in such a way that Battle.snp will always end up loaded to 0x19000000, then there won't be a problem, but there's no guarantee that it'll work.

I suggest running Windows in VMWare, for those times when you can't get away from it.