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!
On 29 Jul 2001 20:37:08 -0400, 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! > > >try disabling DGA in your wine config -- .: OvErRiDe X .: ICQ: 7171522
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