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MS Visual C++ Dependency on Installation

Hi all!

Just tried to do a fresh install Starcraft 2, finding out how Starcraft 2 is doing with the FOSS Radeon Driver since some people report WOW being playable with it!

I used the Crosstie Installer from cxgames 10.1.1, and the installation failed complaining about missing MS Visual C++ !

After creating a bottle with MS Visual C++ 2005 and 2008 everything went fine.

So there must be something wrong with the Crosstie Profile...

Greetings

Claus

FOR THOSE Who ARE INTERESTED...

in the result of my radeon experiment, I can report:

  • The Installation worked flawless
  • Game starts without any error
  • Main Menu looks perfect
  • Matches start without any error
  • Maps are mainly blank, but I could command the WBFs to harvest minerals and I saw the Commandocenter
  • performance at lowest graphic settings was smooth (45FPS)

Looks very very promising and it was much better as I expected!!!
Maybe with some tweaks you can get much better results and I am optimistic that on Linux Gaming we can say goodbye to fglrx soon!

Fedora 15
Kernel 2.6.38.8-35.fc15.i686.PAE
4 GB RAM
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9300 @ 2.50GHz

OpenGL vendor string: X.Org
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD RV770 Radeon HD 4870 1GB VideoRAM
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 7.11-rc1
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20

UPDATE:

After installing s3tc libs, the game is now fully functional and more than playable on low graphic settings!
Bringing this to the Tips & Tricks Section..,

Tested it with my machine and i can confirm this, would you mind opening a ticket/bug so that the developers are informed?

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