[Wine] x crash when I am trying to play StarCraft

[Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov]

On 9/27/06, yuheng li <yuheng108 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am running Debian Etch with kernel 2.7.11, I install wine 0.9.21 through
> the Ubuntu source with apt since there isn't one for Debian
> all I did to get wine was  apt-get install wine
> installation went well with no error, but when I do this as
> $ wine /path/to/starcraft.exe &> /tmp/wine-starcraft.log
>
> X crashes, and what is below is what's in wine-starcraft.log
>
> fixme:d3d:IWineD3DDeviceImpl_GetAvailableTextureMem
> (0x1777d8) : stub, simulating 64MB for now, returning 64MB left
> fixme:ddraw:IDirectDrawImpl_SetCooperativeLevel
> (0x177040)->(0x10024,00000013)
> fixme:xrandr:X11DRV_XRandR_SetCurrentMode Cannot change
> screen BPP from 32 to 8
> X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).^M
> X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).^M

According to this, you should try to run your X server in 8bit mode
before starting StarCraft:
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-bugs/2006-March/027700.html

Also, search AppDB for StarCraft, it should contain useful info since
StarCraft is known to run well in Wine.
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