Diablo II again
Molf
molf at webtribe.net
Tue Jul 31 19:26:12 CDT 2001
Robert Laverick wrote:
> Yes I can see that this has been covered before, but here we start
> again. I'm new to wine, and new ish to linux. Have been trying to get
> Diablo II working for a while now. it starts off and almost straight
> away it stops, it dosn't exit it just sits there ocasionaly using a bit
> of cpu time (85% ish) I've left it for a long time (about 4 hours) with
> no dicernable change in this.... yeah 4 hours was a lot longer than I
> think is a useful time to wait but I got distracted. I've tried
> changing my colour depth to 8bpp but that didn't seem to make any
> difference, anyone got any clue what it could be think so hard about,
> other than how much it (like all technology) my do it's best to thwart
> me at every turn (yes I do think that it's personal, technology's got it
> in for me and I'll be damned if I let it beat me!)
>
> Thanx in advance
> Wine rocks!
>
> PLEASE HELP I can kill windows if I can get this working! well ok it'll
> stay where it is but this is the only thing that I need to re-boot my
> computer for now!
>
>
>
This is caused by copy-protection. D2 goes into an infinite loop trying
to verify your cd. You'll probably find two (IIRC) wine processes
running plus the wineserver. If you kill the one that's processing, a
message will pop up saying that the game couldn't find the cd, with
options to retry or cancel. Unfortunately, the only way *I've* found
around this is to use a crack. Try searching Google for something like
"Diablo 2 no-cd crack". I believe some cracks allow b.net support, but I
don't use it so I'm not sure. Once patched though, I've found the game
to be beautifully playable under wine :)
Molf
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