Starcraft cannot find font/font.gid

[Trevor Antczak]

Hello,

I am sure you guys are WAY tired of Starcraft questions, so let 
apologize in advance.  I've looked through the archives on Google, and 
can't find this problem specifically, so I'll ask and hope for the best. 
  I can install  Starcraft (and for that matter Warcraft BNE which has 
the same problem), but when I try to run them I get a message that they 
  cannot find font/font.gid, then they exit.  The error message is an 
MS-Windows error, and the exit is graceful (Wine thinks the command was 
a success).   tried this as root on an existing Windows partition with 
Starcraft installed through Windows, and got the error.  I searched for 
font.gid on both the CD-ROM and the /windows filesystem, and the file 
does not seem to exist, so I must assume that since the machine runs the 
program fine in Windows, Wine is causing it to look for a file it does 
not normally need.  I also used Regedit to search the registry for 
font.gid, but no luck there either.  Undaunted, I logged in as myself 
and created a ~/.wine/fake-windows type install and ran the installer. 
I was able to get the thing installed and the latest patches put on.  I 
had to replace a .dll file with a real one to get things running, but 
soon I was able to get "wine starcraft.exe" to produce.... The exact 
same Windows error as before.  Effectively the "fake Windows" install 
does the exact same thing as the regular install (and once again I have 
the same trouble with Warcraft BNE).  I am using Red Hat 7.0 and the 
latest Code Weavers release of Wine (I also tried the latest Wine HQ 
release, with he same result.) Log files seem fairly unenlightening to 
me, Wine thinks  it complete the command successfully, but if necessary 
I can include them in a later mail (I am not currently at the machine 
with the problem).  As a side note, I'd like to report a fairly 
significant problem in the build of Wine HQ wine from about two weeks 
ago (I can get the exact build name later if desired).  An Attempt to 
run Internet Explorer on my /windows partition (Not recommended I know, 
I am not blaming anyone, this was my own fault, just reporting) 
basically just hosed my entire filesystem.  Program Files got remamed to 
a bunch of nonsense characters, as did several of it's subdirectories, 
my Outlook Express mail mail folder in c:\windows\profiles... got 
renamed to what looks like my user SID, basically the thing became 
barely bootable.  I have fixed most of it, but I thought you might want 
to know.

Thank you,
Trevor Antczak