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ach

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Registered: 2024-08-28

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Blackscreen with white rectangle when launching StarCraft with lutris

Hello folks,

I'm trying to play StarCraft: Remastered but get a black screen with a white rectangle.
The cursor changes & the sound works, I can even click through the menu by memory & it works.

Setup: lutris in river (wayland) using mesa on an x201 thinkpad (i5-520M)

Due to the "GLSL 3.30 not supported" error I tried launching the game while overriding the GLSL
version to 3.30, the only difference was the screen was fully black, without the white rectangle.
(I believe my computer only supports up to 1.20, but about a year & a half ago I used to play starcraft
on the same laptop, so I assumed it should still work ...)

I also tried in X11 using cwm but with the same result.

glxinfo: https://okturing.com/src/20677/body
lutris wine logs: https://okturing.com/src/20676/body
screenshot: https://ibb.co/BNMByZx

Thanks a lot for your help!
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ach

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 23,430

Re: Blackscreen with white rectangle when launching StarCraft with lutris

Try a older version of wine. Also did you "used to play starcraft on this laptop", was that on linux  with wine and OG starcraft or starcraft: remastered? chances are they upped the API requirements are high and your laptop is simply not very good.

And googling a bit they've recently deprecated and might have potentially removed the old OGL backend and you'd be stuck with DX11 which you're not going to get with that GPU and wine.

You can force to render on the GPU and for such and old game this might even run acceptably by adding LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 to your launch options. A better choice would be to find a way to switch to the old OGL backend but some cursory googlers didn't turn up much.

Last edited by V1del (2024-08-28 16:19:09)

ach

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Registered: 2024-08-28

Posts: 2

Re: Blackscreen with white rectangle when launching StarCraft with lutris

Thanks a lot for your help V1del!

I played SC:Remastered on this same laptop about 2 years ago, arch wine but cwm (X11).

I tried running the game with LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 & now I do get graphics!
But only 9 FPS, alas.
I will try to switch to the old OGL backend, as well as downgrading wine.