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I cant seem to find anything to run it - or the battle.net desktop which you need to launch Star Craft 2.

Can anyone tell me what i need to install? I have looked at some wine programs and I found one but its old and it might not work with the new void expansion.

Is there another emulator to run this game - and if so where do get it?

I asked here, and it wasn't much help.

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Generally, big Windows software, which requires various libraries and dependencies, are very tricky to run on Linux (with Wine or the like). I don't think it is possible to run starcraft2 decently without installing it on a virtual machine based on Virtualbox or VMware. The seamless mode makes the virtualbox very transparent.

Disclaimer: I haven't installed starcraft2 on a virtual machine myself. But I did try with many other Windows software.

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It will not run on Wine:

Test results for Ubuntu 14.04

What does not work

Starting the game, crashes shortly after seeing the initial loading screen.

Additional Comments

Error from debug output:

4.exe: ../nptl/pthread_mutex_lock.c:359: __pthread_mutex_lock_full: Assertion `robust || (oldval & 0x40000000) == 0' failed.

So you have a couple of options:

  • Run Windows in a Virtualbox. This is unrealistic unless you have an extremely good computer. I can run PowerPoint in Virtual box, but that takes 11GB of RAM to manage a 50 slide presentation with lots of images. I doubt you'd be able to run a GPU intensive game (OBS doesn't even work).

  • Dual boot Windows. This seems much more likely to work. You will need to partition the hard drive etc, so requires a backup.

Of course, both of these require Windows to be installed. I'd suggest buying a Windows 7 OEM, and then updating it to Windows 10 if you wanted - a much cheaper option to buying Windows 10 for £99.

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