Diablo loading hang

[wine at scabserver.com]

it's simple to get V8 running... just run game_crk.exe instead of DLoad.exe, 
but B.net won't validate cos DLoad is some kind of wrapper that makes B.net 
work (I think) but single play works fine for me using game_crk.exe.  you 
Deffinatly should turn off DGA, that's how I got mine working... putting DGA on 
causes the freeze you discrib (at least similar but mine happens earlyer... 
don't know why)

I'm going to do some seriouse looking at CD usage, but I'm not sure where to 
start and I don't have a comuter at the mo.... I'm in the middle of decorating 
so the computer is in storage.

mine works fine with Diablo II LOD v1.08 and the same crack your using (I 
assume since the file names are the same)

Still WANT B.net access, and would be indebted to anyone who can help me with 
this quest <G>

 

Quoting Debian User <burton at linux.tds.net>:

> In article <01082111221700.02011 at Hard-Core.scabserver.com>, "Robert
> Laverick" <csujo at scabserver.com> wrote:
> 
> ok I got directdraw connect but now I get no loading screen the cursor
> just freezes after I clock "ok" after the character select screen, I'm
> running version 5b right now I coudn't get ver. 8 to play because of
> the
> crack, it coudn't locate game_crk.exe or something, it was the
> DLoad.exe
> patch, any ideas?
> 
> P.S. check working on utilizing the CD then we can get on Bnet! ;)
> 	Burton
> 
> > ok, it's probably that you've got it set to use Direct 3D, you need
> to
> > run D2VidTst.exe, and hit skip test to change to DirectDraw... Other
> > than that I'm not to sure other than that I find that using DGA is
> more
> > trouble than it's worth...
> > just out of interest are you using a No CD hack? cos I'm looking to
> get
> > it working without....
> > 
> > On Tuesday 14 August 2001 17:06, you wrote:
> >> ok guys I've gotta diablo to the point where it gets all the way to
> the
> >> player screen, I pick my character and it continues to load, it gets
> SO
> >> close (the monk is almost engulfed in light) until the music stops
> and
> >> it seems to hang
> >>
> >> here's the interesting stuff in my wine config: [x11drv]
> >> ; Number of colors to allocate from the system palette
> >> "AllocSystemColors" = "100"
> >> ; Use a private color map
> >> "PrivateColorMap" = "N"
> >> ; Favor correctness over speed in some graphics operations
> >> "PerfectGraphics" = "N"
> >> ; Color depth to use on multi-depth screens ;;"ScreenDepth" = "16"
> >> ; Name of X11 display to use
> >> ;;"Display" = ":0.0"
> >> ; Allow the window manager to manage created windows "Managed" = "N"
> >> ; Use a desktop window of 640x480 for Wine ;"Desktop" = "640x480"
> >> ; Use XFree86 DGA extension if present ; (make sure /dev/mem is
> >> accessible by you !) "UseDGA" = "Y"
> >> ; Use XShm extension if present
> >> "UseXShm" = "Y"
> >> ; Enable DirectX mouse grab
> >> "DXGrab" = "Y"
> >> ; Create the desktop window with a double-buffered visual ; (useful
> to
> >> play OpenGL games)
> >> "DesktopDoubleBuffered" = "Y"
> >> ; Code page used for captions in managed mode ; 0 means default ANSI
> >> code page (CP_ACP == 0) "TextCP" = "0"
> >> ; Use this if you have more than one port for video on your setup ;
> >> (Wine uses for now the first 'input image' it finds). ;; "XVideoPort"
> =
> >> "43"
> >> ; Run in synchronous mode (useful for debugging X11 problems)
> >> ;;"Synchronous" = "Y"
> >>
> >>
> >> I had DGA off and it still didn't load, I turned it on my menus
> looked
> >> better.
> >> any ideas? I've been browsing through the messages but can find
> nothing
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