starcraft

[Chris Aitken]

JoeHill wrote:

<snip>
> "The only networking method in the release version is IPX. However, if you
> update the game, a new UDP networking option is available, which should work
> for all users. In order to use IPX networking, IPX will have to be enabled in
> the kernel, and you need some userspace utilities, usually called ipx-utils;
> and IPX must be started (there should be an initscript). Also note that
> StarCraft's network support is only available when it is run as root."
>   
Okay, I tried that. I found that the path to Starcraft (on the CD) is 
/media/Starcraft so I did su, then

wine /media/Starcraft/setup.exe

to run the game as root. Nothing changed - I got the same results. 
Actually, one thing did change - the animated Blizzard logo took a full 
minute to load.

Chris

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