Problems getting Diablo2 to run

[Robert Skarwecki]

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to run Diablo2 version 1.06 on SuSE Linux 6.4 (kernel 2.4.2) with
WINE 20010418. Both the contents of the windoze installation and the game
have been copied over the network from another machine where everything
works happily.

When I run the game nothing really seems to be happening. With tracing
enabled I can see that after some initialization the game just spins around
the in a loop, resulting in two select() calls being repeated over and over
again, as seen below:

--- snip ---
trace:timer:SERVICE_Loop Wait returned: 0
trace:timer:SERVICE_Loop Waiting for 3 objects
085f17a0: select( flags=6, cookie=0x41166d88, sec=0, usec=0,
handles={100,32,88} )
085f17a0: select() = PENDING
085494d8: *wakeup* signaled=0 cookie=0x40c16d88
trace:timer:SERVICE_Loop Wait returned: 0
trace:timer:SERVICE_Loop Waiting for 3 objects
085494d8: select( flags=6, cookie=0x40c16d88, sec=0, usec=0,
handles={52,44,32} )
085494d8: select() = PENDING
085f17a0: *wakeup* signaled=0 cookie=0x41166d88
trace:timer:SERVICE_Loop Wait returned: 0
trace:timer:SERVICE_Loop Waiting for 3 objects
085f17a0: select( flags=6, cookie=0x41166d88, sec=0, usec=0,
handles={100,32,88} )
085f17a0: select() = PENDING
085494d8: *wakeup* signaled=0 cookie=0x40c16d88
trace:timer:SERVICE_Loop Wait returned: 0
trace:timer:SERVICE_Loop Waiting for 3 objects
085494d8: select( flags=6, cookie=0x40c16d88, sec=0, usec=0,
handles={52,44,32} )
085494d8: select() = PENDING
085f17a0: *wakeup* signaled=0 cookie=0x41166d88
trace:timer:SERVICE_Loop Wait returned: 0
trace:timer:SERVICE_Loop Waiting for 3 objects
085f17a0: select( flags=6, cookie=0x41166d88, sec=0, usec=0,
handles={100,32,88} )
--- snip ----

Has anyone encountered this bevore and is there a solution for this problem
? Do I have to reinstall Diablo2 under Wine itself ?  (I've tried that first
but stopped as the problem of cd changing arose - I reckoned that copying
the entire game folder would be easier).

Regards,
Robert Skarwecki

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