Diablo, Diablo Spawn, Diablo 2, Diablo 2 LoD Problems

VladP12

Ok I keep having this problem

Wine Runs and starts Diablo 2 and LoD, however Diablo and Diablo Spawn start but there is no main menu, just a blank, black screen

Cedega keeps doing Debug when I lunch any of the 4

What is going on?

Petyr · Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 4:07 pm Post subject:

I had a similar problem with diablo, it boiled down to wine did NOT want to run it in full screen. Try telling it to run in windows mode, so if that does anything for you.

hth,

Petyr Rahl
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VladP12 · Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 9:35 pm Post subject:

jweingard · n00b Joined: 25 Mar 2004 Posts: 8 Location: United States

heres what you need to do, or at least how i play it...

btw, i haven't got maphack working with it yet.

Firstly, download point2play, either version the full, or the lite, and install the whole diablo2 and expansion using that. Download the cracked no-cd version of d2 lod v1.10 and replace it with the default one once you run it once and do the manaual updates.

copy all the mpq files from your cds to the d2 directory

Edit the config for diablo 2 now with point2play. Make it run in desktop mode 800x600, this way when you click outside the windowed mode and its supposed to minimize, it doesn't disappear. Trust me, do it this way.

lastly under command line add
"-w -skiptobnet"
-w is for windowed mode and you can guess what the other arg does.

sorry i wrote this fast in the middle of a class...

if you need any more help post here
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VladP12 · Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 9:45 pm Post subject: Re: answer

AliasXZ · Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 8:00 am Post subject:

yeh, jus run setup like

VladP12 · Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 8:37 pm Post subject:

Ok... it runs.. but still under wine only... and there is this Battle.Net thing that keeps saying It can't identify the version of the game, even though its 1.10, and has been updated w/o a problem.

Still not working under cedega

AliasXZ · Posted: Fri May 27, 2005 7:48 am Post subject:

got it working... scrub what i said..

install the latest patch

VladP12 · Posted: Fri May 27, 2005 9:38 pm Post subject:

so install with win2k in your setup in cedega folder?

Edit: I ran the installed version and now it complains about the Game.exe file..... what should I do?

I installed the no-cd patch earlier, and updated to 1.10 before that.... but my original files are gone.. should I just reinstall ?

VladP12 · Posted: Sat May 28, 2005 5:29 pm Post subject:

I reinstalled it, and it still complains (cedega) about the Game.exe file not being found

It won't install via cedega, but I got it runs in wine, but without B-net... and you need the no-cd patch to run it v.v

AliasXZ · Posted: Sat May 28, 2005 10:09 pm Post subject:

i dont use nocd patch...

i instaleld it by Setup.exe on cd, did a full install.

then

download the patch from blizzards site (1.10) and ran that with cedega to install it

then

mounted play disc, set my winver to win2k then put desktop in 800x600 (wouldnt work in 640x480)

then it ran, also runs in full screen
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russianpirate · Posted: Sat May 28, 2005 10:20 pm Post subject:

VladP12 · Posted: Sat May 28, 2005 10:31 pm Post subject:

legine · Guru Joined: 27 May 2004 Posts: 555 Location: Germany

I installed the game from windows. So no i cant help you.
But I looked around for a OpenGL wrapper for diablo (still have it on disk if you like)
With the NoCD crack I can play without any problems the latest patch...
But it is a bit complicated. I use the following Skript to doi it.:

VladP12 · Posted: Mon May 30, 2005 3:57 pm Post subject:

*is now confused*

Peregrine · n00b Joined: 16 Jun 2003 Posts: 67

Ok, so it seems we lost the point of the original post (as D2 was said to be running ..) but this is how I installed D2 and everything seems to be working great

I installed the latest wine release, and changed the config file so the version of windows it pretends to be is win98. I went into the dosdevices directory inside the .wine directory and make symlinks to the cd drive ( IE if my cdrom was to be Drive D, was the /dev/hdc device and mounted on /mnt/cdrom, I would run " cd ~/.wine/dosdevices ; ln -s /mnt/cdrom d: ; ln -s /dev/hdc d:: " to enable raw device access .. the :: for /dev/hdc is intentional.)

I then mounted the install cd and ran 'wine /path/to/setup.exe' to install D2. Once installed, I copied the mpq files off of the Play CD into the D2 directory to help speed things up. I was also able to download and run the patch to upgrade to v 1.10

Once it was installed, I went back to the wine config file and changed the version of windows emulated to win2k. I changed to the D2 directory and ran 'wine Game.exe' Setting the emulated windows version to win2k allowed the copy protection to work and it was able to read and validate my mounted play cd. I'm not using a nocd patch, so Battle.Net should be able to verify the binary as well.

The only issue I had with it was that the gnome panel kept displaying over D2 - i read somewhere that its because its not sending all the window hints needed correctly. I found a patch that seemed to work on the wine-patches list, or the other way is just to hide the panel .

VladP12 · Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 12:27 am Post subject:

Im' not root >.<