wine and diablo2 lod help

krobar · n00b Joined: 05 Feb 2004 Posts: 63 Location: illinois

what do i need to do to play Diablo2 LOD in gentoo. do i need to use wine or winex. what version will work. is there anything specific i need to configure or patch. thanks

thorne · Apprentice Joined: 19 Sep 2002 Posts: 177

As far as I remember, you should not have to do anything special to run diablo II LOD with wine... unless my memory is faulty. I don't recall emerging winex-cvs to play it.

I installed and patched everything via windows via the CD/Installer, then ran it in linux. I've always had problems with multiple CD installations, and wine (i.e. Vampire, The Masquerade, Diablo II, etc.) which is why I install them through windows. Keep in mind you will need to find a no-cd patch to get it to run in linux using wine. Otherwise it will fail the CD check and you won't be able to run it.

People in this thread state the installer for Diablo I actually works with wine... perhaps the installer for Diablo II works as well?
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eNTi · Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 9:36 am Post subject:

if you intend to play on battle.net you will need winex, as for copy protection issues.
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Gekko · l33t Joined: 29 Oct 2002 Posts: 773

that is wrong eNTi, I'm using Diablo2 LOD 1.10 with wine - but you need to do some extra tricks for doing it.

Don't ask me how to, but there are several guides for it everywhere.

eNTi · Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 2:16 pm Post subject:

as long as you stay legal, i see no way to play diablo 2, without winex3, but maybe there is a copy-protection detection in wine, that i don't know off. that would be great, because that's one of the reasons, winex3 is not free.
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adamwwolf · n00b Joined: 23 Jan 2004 Posts: 23

You don't need winex to run LOD.
Here's how I did it. And I can play on Battle.net!

Step 0) Create the isos.

Place each disk, one at a time, in your cdrom drive. Do not mount it.

eNTi · Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2004 12:29 pm Post subject:

nice idea. hell of a work. it could run faster on your machine, because it's faster to read from hdd than from cdrom.
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adamwwolf · n00b Joined: 23 Jan 2004 Posts: 23

There is a fairly large LAN party on March 20th, and as the resident high school linux guru wannabe, I'm trying to see if I can get the 'latest and greatest' games running on Linux. I know Diablo 2 doesn't exactly fit the bill, but I'm trying to get a well rounded selection, not just FPSs. Expect more guides like this as I lose more sleep.
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kamagurka · Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2004 11:45 am Post subject:

tristure · Apprentice Joined: 30 Oct 2003 Posts: 270 Location: France

My personal experience :

I never got the patch 1.10 installation to work.

I succeeded in installing D2 / LOD from the cd's with wine, but if I connected to Battle.net, it would download patch 1.10 and then crash, and if I tried installing patch 1.10 manually it crashed too.

So the only way I could get it to work was installing D2 LOD 1.10 in a real windows session, then copy the Diablo 2 folder in my linux partition.

Then, unless you subscribe to WineX you'll need a no-cd patch, and a cript in order to connect to Battle.net. I can post the script I use if you need it, but you'll have to wait until I get home (tomorrow).
It really works great and does not need the CD which is quite cool (I purchased the game and the expansion, I'm legit!!!

)

Last thing : I did not succeed in making it work under regular wine. But i'm not a wine guru, and I think it's a graphical configuration issue. i know many people just wine diablo 2 perfectly. I have to use CVS-wineX which runs very good.

I can only get the 2D graphics (which is no problem for me because the 3D sucks I think)... But otherwise it works very well.

Good luck.

adamwwolf · n00b Joined: 23 Jan 2004 Posts: 23

Did you mount the iso? I've never needed a CD crack and I don't know of anyone who does NEED it. It's a slight pain when updating and can cause problems that require hack workarounds like that script. If you want to work past that, post your winex config, especially the drive definition section. Everyone I know has been able to mount the LOD disk from an ISO and play from there. That doesn't need the CD either.

What errors did you get under regular wine? Did you have DXGrab="Y"? That's made it crash on me every time.
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tristure · Apprentice Joined: 30 Oct 2003 Posts: 270 Location: France

Actually I never tried with iso's, I always tried to run D2 with the CD in drive, and I couldn't get past the CD protection!

Here's the script I use

daddio

I am using adamwolf's post here as a sort of template to load another game
(worms armageddon... my kids love it, and have felt deprived since I phased out windows)

I was wondering if anybody here knows where I may be able to find
general steps for loading and running games in wine

or (even better)

a repository of special instructions for specific games?

btw THANK YOU adamwolf

adamwwolf · n00b Joined: 23 Jan 2004 Posts: 23

Do a good turn, and if you have to modify the steps in my HOWTO for Worms Armageddon, write up what you had to change and post them somewhere.

I am a reasonable coder, but the free software/open source movement doesn't seem to have a TOTAL lack of coders. However, a total lack of good HOWTOs seem to be missing in some topics.

I've got a Counterstrike/Half-Life tutorial in the same vein as this last one. I'm working on Battlefield 1942.

Keep in mind, you shouldn't HAVE to change the resolution like that with the /etc/X11/XF86Config files. Wine has two things built into it to stop that, DGI and also DXGrab. However, neither of them worked properly with Diablo 2 LOD with me. I am not sure if this is a configuration error on my part, or even my hardware. However, the XF86Config file workaround is easy enough for me to implement.

If anyone has more information on getting DXGrab or DGI working, I'd be glad to hear it.

More on topic, http://www.frankscorner.org has a list of howtos on gaming. They're a bit sparse, which is why I started my series of HOWTOs. http://www.linux-gamers.net/ has some information, including something on changing Counterstrike's OpenGL libraries, iirc!!!! The official Wine site http://www.winehq.org has some information in the application section, and the Transgaming site http://www.transgaming.com also has some information.

I am not a fan of Transgaming. I do not use WineX. I have found Wine to be more than satisfactory in all the games I play. Transgaming has done naughty stuff. They took their Linux subscriber money and spent it on a Mac/PC only game. It doesn't even run under their own product!!!

I vote with my dollars and my words and I've voted for free as in speech, free as in beer wine. (beer wine?)

Well, I'm rambling now, but it is a snowday here. Any time guys!

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The Mountain Man · l33t Joined: 03 Sep 2003 Posts: 643

I'll piggy-back on this post with my own question.

I've installed Diablo II and the expansion pack using the latest version of Wine without incident. The video test ran without trouble but I was unable to use either of the Direct3D options even though they were available. The game wouldn't start unless I selected the 2D mode. Once up and running, I successfully connected to Battle.net and it automatically downloaded and installed the latest patch. So far so good.

However, my two problems are:

1) The game won't go full screen. It stays in an 800x600 window without title bar in the upper left of my screen (this is in KDE 3.2).
2) Once past the intro movies, the sound is played too fast, so everything sounds like the Chipmunks.

How do I fix this?
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adamwwolf · n00b Joined: 23 Jan 2004 Posts: 23

I've got no clue about the sound problem, however, if you post your ~/.wine/config file, especially the part around [x11drv] I might be able to help you with the sizing issues.
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kamagurka · Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 1:26 am Post subject:

1. the install went off without a hitch, except i got stuck with a small virtual desktop to scroll around on after the video test.
QUESTION: is there a better way for getting the normal desktop back than killing x and restarting it?

2. actually playing doesnt work, since i get complaints about the missing cdrom (both if its the mounted iso and the actaul mounted cdrom)
QUESTION: is there a way around it?
QUESTION: if i emerge other wines (winex, or the cvs-versions) do i have to reinstall with them or can i just use the install i just did?
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adamwwolf · n00b Joined: 23 Jan 2004 Posts: 23

Yes, you can get your desktop back. Control Alt and then the numberpads plus or minus. Cycle through the resolutions until you are back.

It seems that it is simply a fluke that I don't need a crack to run it. What you need is a no cd crack for Lord of Destruction v. 1.10.
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The Mountain Man · l33t Joined: 03 Sep 2003 Posts: 643

Here's my Wine config:

adamwwolf · n00b Joined: 23 Jan 2004 Posts: 23

MountainMan, try turning the Managed property off with an N.

I know of a workaround to the sound problem: Don't use ALSA. If you use the kernel sound drivers, supposedly it fixes the ultra-chipmunks problem. However, that's kinda cludgey for me. I'll look up a better fix.
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kamagurka · Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 9:25 pm Post subject:

i installed a noCDpatch, and d2 started up alright, but BOY did it fuck up my system.
never mind that the game ran so slow i had ~4 fps in the freaking MENU and it crashed horribly as soon as i tried accessing bnet, but it totally fraggled my desktop... the gamma got cranked way up and the resolution was down to ~640...now i know how to fix the res thing, but i didnt know any better way for the rest short or killing X and restarting it.
is there a way to restart X w/o losing all the open apps?
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adamwwolf · n00b Joined: 23 Jan 2004 Posts: 23

A friend of mine followed my directions to the T and he needs to use a patch. I'm not sure what determines whether or not the computer checks for a patch or not. As soon as I find out, I'll let you guys know.
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aridhol · Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 7:13 pm Post subject:

I followed the guide here and I get cd not found when I try to run it.

Is there a way to try to fix it with no nocd crack since the game totally slowed down to a halt and wouldn't go past the menus into the game, and Battle.net didn't recognize the version with a NoCD.

Possibly a way to get the patch to work:

If you get access denied when you apply the patch, load BNUpdate.exe manually after failing the patch, it will finish up.
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