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Diablo 2 fullscreen patch8/19/2023 Now, you should be able to launch the game with the -3dfx switch and be all good! wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Diablo\ II/Game.exe -3dfx Make sure to follow that procedure exactly. select '2048x2048' for 'buffer texture size'. You'll obviously have to make sure that glide-init.exe is executed with WINE.Ģ) extract file in the Diablo 2 folder, where the 'Diablo II.exe' is.Ĥ) Click on 'English/Deutsch' to change the language to english.ĥ) Click on 'OpenGL Info', then 'Query OpenGL info', wait for the query to finish. The first two steps you should have already done, but then follow the instructions to configure the wrapper. The following is from a forum guide originally for Windows users, but it worked fine for me on Linux as well. ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Diablo II/) It's easy), you'll want to download the GLIDE3-to-OpenGL-Wrapper by Sven Labusch.Įxtract the files from the downloaded archive to your Diablo II game folder (eg. So, assuming you have the game installed and fully patched (seriously, it's pretty much just click and install with WINE, exactly as you would in Windows. And being Linux users, OpenGL certainly suits us. Thankfully, there is a wrapper available, seemingly made specifically for Diablo II, that actually translates the GLIDE interface to OpenGL. Running the game with the -3dfx switch by default will only net you a crash to desktop (sad face). no modern video cards actually support the now defunct GLIDE anymore and 3DFX (the company) was taken over long ago by NVIDIA, so the whole thing kind of went the way of the dodo. Well, that's not completely true - the game still has the ancient GLIDE/3DFX mode available and gamers for years have known that for whatever reason, Diablo II actually runs better with GLIDE than Direct3D for hardware that supports it. Okay, so we said that the game only has one video mode now, that being Direct3D. Again, this may not be your preference, but personally I like it! Let's get to it. Thankfully, there is a way to get the game running fullscreen correctly, with working movies, and plus the technique also gets the game running in it's original 4:3 aspect ratio, instead of the weird stretched out 16:9 state it does by default. Which may not bother you, but for mine the movies are one of the great and memorable aspects of Diablo II. Which seems to be the culprit of the fullscreen issues, which apparently even happens on modern Windows machines, so we're not even necessarily talking about a WINE issue here.įor any users running into the fullscreen glitches and washed out colour palette, as long as you don't care about in-game cinematics and playing the game in a small 800圆00 (the game's maximum resolution) window, you could just run the game in windowed mode (with the -w switch) and it will work fine.Įxample: wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Diablo\ II/Game.exe -w However, it seems since the patches released in the last couple of years that Blizzard removed DirectDraw as a video rendering option from the game for some reason, leaving the game with just one option - Direct3D. So it's very pleasing to me that the game is very easily playable in Linux using WINE and generally from what I've known the game has needed little to no modification to run properly in WINE. While not exactly Linux related (the game itself has never had a Linux port), I've sunk countless hours into the game in years past. Old or not though, Diablo II is undoubtedly one of my favourite games of all time. And this is a game from 2001 we're talking about! Yes, that's right, unless you run Diablo II in fullscreen, the cinematics won't work for some reason! I'm fairly sure this happens even on Windows if the game is in windowed mode, so while it's a curious side effect, it is what it is. However, if you're like me and experience a few glitches and washed out colours in the standard fullscreen mode, you have two options: run the game in windowed mode and go without cinematics, or install a GLIDE-OpenGL wrapper and get the game running properly in its fullscreen glory again, without the glitches and colour problems. Diablo II is usually a breeze to run on Linux, thanks to WINE and so often times you need no special tricks.
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