You will need a no-cd crack for the game, because of the SecuROM copy
protection which cannot be emulated currently.
Try http://www.gamecopyworld.com/ for such a crack.
-- Henry Goffin
"Robert Skarwecki" <robertskarwecki@gmx.net> wrote in message
news:14565.988807667@www32.gmx.net...> 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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