That's strange...I had no problems running the disk... even after a fresh, completely unmodified wine install. Anyway, has anyone had any luck with the newest update? (or any update for that matter...) I've tried with wine and cedega and they both output errors... Thanks for any help.

im having the same problem, but im using unbuntu..... iv'e tried over and reburned the cd, tried other blizzard cds like diablo and it installs perfectly but cant read the cd when i click play starcraft/diablo can some 1 please help?

Hi,

I had the same problem. I am running Suse 9.3 I finally got SC to run via wine.

First I installed the game off the cd using wine:

wine install.exe

The install occured without any errors. But when trying to start the game it gave me the cdrom error... and I didn't want to use a nocd, thats giving up. So here is what I did.

I needed to tell wine what the heck is up with my cdrom,. in the config file there was nothing in regards to the cdrom. So I mounted the cdrom w/Starcraft in the drive and edited my /.wine/config file to point to the cdrom, started the game and it worked. Victory.

Login as root:

Create a folder /cdrom on /

And mount your cdrom with Starcraft cd in the drive.

mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom
(I didn't mess w/file system ISO9660 stuff)

Go edit your /.wine/config file with your favorite editor. And add something like this. I put mine right below # [wineconf]


# [wineconf]

[Drive D]
"Path" = "/cdrom"
"Type" = "cdrom"
"Label" = "poop"
"Filesystem" = "win98"
"Device" = "dev/cdrom"

After the cd was mounted and wine knew where it was, it fired up.

wine /directory you installed SC/starcraft.exe

Hope this helps.

Well, apparently all you need to actually do is configure your devices with winecfg and all works just peachy!

It runs SLOOOOOOWWWWW.

What kernel do you have? I'm using a custom built CK based kernel and it FLIES!
Sys specs:

AMD64 Athlon 2800+
1Gb RAM
nVidia GeForce FX5900
SB-Live!
Fedora Core 4 x86_64
Kernel 2.6.14.3-CK6

My other system, a laptop (same kernel) runs it much better than cedega does:
AMD Athlon XP 1500+
512 RAM
ATi Rage Mobitlity
Onboard sound.

Actually both systems run the game at about the _same_ speed.

If you feel like to, you could install this kernel and then try. If you require further assistance, drop me a line.

SC runs fair on my machine,.. it could run better... but it runs.

AMD 2400
500 MB RAM
Nvidia GeForce 5200
On board Sound
Suse 9.3
Kernel: 2.6.11.4-21.9

Ok this isn't the orthodox answer, but try it, it might work.

install and patch/crack starcraft in windows, copy entire starcraft folder, paste into wine's program files folder. run from there.

I was having the same problem using version 20050310 (from apt-get). I finally got it to work though.

In the .wine folder where winesetup made a fake windows file system is a folder called dosdevices. In this folder are some links for a, c, d and z drives. 'd:' was linked to /dev/hdc. So I renamed it (never get rid of stuff till you know you don't need it) and made a new link:

d: -> /mnt/cdrom

Works but slow! 'Course I am working with a Celeron 366! X barely works!

Good luck!