Finished single player SC2

24. October, 2010

I just finished the single player missions of Starcraft 2SC2 Trailer – Wings of Liberty. Except for the video sequences and the end scroller (which both stuttered badly – a coder on the C=64 would have been shamed to death), it was a very nice game and story.

Since I’m not the typical PvP guy, I’ll now wait eagerly for the second part. Until then, I’ll collect my points for the other two modes of each level.

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StarCraft 2 on Linux: Sound problems

28. September, 2010
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If you have sound issues in StarCraft 2 on Linux, open WINE config (winecfg) and select the “Audio” tab. Make sure that the correct sound driver is selected (use “Test sound”) and then switch “Hardware Acceleration” near the bottom to “Emulation”.

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Updating StarCraft 2 to 1.0.3 on openSUSE 11.3 SOLVED

19. August, 2010
A Protoss warrior, as displayed in StarCraft II.

A Protoss warrior, as displayed in StarCraft II. (Image via Wikipedia)

I had a lot of problems to download and install the patch to 1.0.3. Here is my solution after 144 failed attempts: Install IE6! The BlizzardDownloader.exe doesn’t work with the IE emulator (gecko) so use winetricks or /opt/cxgames/bin/cxinstaller to install IE6 instead and it won’t crash anymore.

Hint: The crash happens somewhere in the JavaScript DLL js3250:

=>0 0x0245b44c in js3250 (+0xfb44c) (0x0033b4b8)
  1 0x0245b2e6 in js3250 (+0xfb2e5) (0x0033b4d8)
  2 0x02459d62 in js3250 (+0xf9d61) (0x0033b4f8)
  3 0x023fc423 in js3250 (+0x9c422) (0x0033b548)
  4 0x01025b6a (0x0033b594)
  5 0x0033df84 (0x0033df84)
  6 0x02420b5a in js3250 (+0xc0b59) (0x0033dfd4)
  7 0x0239f43d in js3250 (+0x3f43c) (0x0033e1f4)
  8 0x023b21bb in js3250 (+0x521ba) (0x0033e2a4)
  9 0x02368391 in js3250 (+0x8390) (0x0033e2e4)
  10 0x0164c6e5 in xul (+0x5cc6e4) (0x0033e3a4)
  11 0x014eaf8d in xul (+0x46af8c) (0x0033e4e4)
  12 0x014eaa7b in xul (+0x46aa7a) (0x0033e5c4)
  13 0x014ea1c6 in xul (+0x46a1c5) (0x0033ea14)
  14 0x014e7cad in xul (+0x467cac) (0x0033ea74)
  15 0x0156ca4b in xul (+0x4eca4a) (0x0033eb54)
...
  31 0x01c634e4 in xul (+0xbe34e3) (0x0033ef44)
  32 0x01c0b086 in xul (+0xb8b085) (0x0033ef74)
  33 0x01bd77ce in xul (+0xb577cd) (0x0033ef94)
  34 0x7eccecfa WINPROC_wrapper+0x19() in user32 (0x0033efc4)
  35 0x7ecd0819 in user32 (+0xa0818) (0x0033f004)
  36 0x7ecd1cac in user32 (+0xa1cab) (0x0033f044)
  37 0x7ec9541e DispatchMessageW+0x9d() in user32 (0x0033f134)
  38 0x7ec660b9 in user32 (+0x360b8) (0x0033f194)
  39 0x7ec6626f DialogBoxParamW+0x8e() in user32 (0x0033f1b4)
  40 0x00406156 in blizzarddownloader (+0x6155) (0x0033fd84)
  41 0x7e725b64 in ole32 (+0xd5b63) (0x004cd07c)
  42 0x6b735a42 (0x0044303a)
  43 0xfffffec2 (0xe8f18b56)

Look for “xul” and “js3250” in the stack trace. If you use cxgames, start the game with

"$HOME/.cxgames/Starcraft II_ Wings of Liberty/desktopdata/cxmenu/StartMenu.C^5E3A^5Fusers^5FPublic^5FStart^2BMenu/Programs/StarCraft+II/StarCraft+II"

If you need to kill the game, use this line:

kill $(ps -e -o "%p:%a" | grep -E 'winewrapper.exe|wineserver|system32|StarCraft|winedbg|Blizzard'|grep -v grep|cut -d: -f1)

That should get rid of all leftover processes.

[Update] I sometimes get a window asking where to store a download. Ignore it; it closes eventually. Click outside of it, it if bothers you to hide it behind the update manager window.

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