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− | Download the [http://www.svenswrapper.de/english/index.html Glide Wrapper] | + | # Download the [http://www.svenswrapper.de/english/index.html Glide Wrapper]. |
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− | + | # Install [[#Patches|patch 1.12]] or higher. | |
+ | # Download [http://www.moddb.com/games/diablo-2/downloads/d2multires-version-102 D2MultiRes]. | ||
+ | # Adjust to your preferred resolution in the drop-down menu. | ||
'''Notes''' | '''Notes''' |
Revision as of 08:34, 27 July 2016
Developers | |
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Blizzard North | |
Publishers | |
Blizzard Entertainment | |
Release dates | |
Windows | June 29, 2000 |
Mac OS (Classic) | July 26, 2000 |
macOS (OS X) | 2002[1] |
Warnings
- The macOS (OS X) version of this game does not work on macOS Catalina (version 10.15) or later due to the removal of support for 32-bit-only apps.
Diablo | |
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Diablo | 1997 |
Diablo II | 2000 |
Diablo III | 2012 |
Diablo II: Resurrected | 2021 |
Diablo Immortal | 2022 |
Diablo IV | 2023 |
Key points
- Active community.
- Ongoing support for compatibility and other issues. Patches for the game have been released as recently as April 2016.
- Official support for Intel Macs was added in via the v1.14a patch.
- Single player frame rate is capped at 25 FPS; see Mouse lag/low frame rate in single player.
General information
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | ||||
Amazon.com | Diablo II: Lord of Destruction is also available here. | |||
Amazon.com | ||||
Amazon.com | Diablo Battle Chest (old version) | |||
Amazon.com | Diablo Battle Chest (new version) | |||
Official website | Digital Download. |
DLC and expansion packs
Name | Notes | |
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Diablo II: Lord of Destruction | Included with the Diablo Battle Chest. Can be bought from the Battle.net store. |
Version differences
Diablo Battle Chest
The Battle Chest is a box set containing Diablo II and Lord of Destruction, as well as an official strategy guide for both games.
Older copies of the Battle Chest include Diablo.
Battle.net Digital Download
A downloadable version of the game. The main differences compared to the retail release is the removal of disk checking, along with native support for Intel Macs and modern Windows.
If a retail version is already owned, the serial key can be registered with a Battle.net account to get the digital release for free.
Note that Diablo II and Lord of Destruction are separate downloads.
Essential improvements
Patches
While the game updates automatically when connecting to Battle.net, it is still possible to download and apply patches manually. If the expansion Lord of Destruction is installed, only LODPatch_xxx.exe needs to be installed.
Older patch releases for Windows, OS X (PowerPC), and Mac OS can be found on the official support page.
Diablo 2 Patches
The latest version is 1.14c (Windows and OS X only). For Mac OS, the latest version is 1.13d.
Patching to version 1.12a is recommended for the use of the high resolution patch. When using 1.12a, official Battle.net play will not be available, as that requires the latest patch.
Lord of Destruction Patches
The latest version is 1.14c (Windows and OS X only). For Mac OS, the latest version is 1.13d.
Patching to version 1.12a is recommended for the use of the high resolution patch. When using 1.12a, official Battle.net play will not be available, as that requires the latest patch.
Mods
Median XL 2012
A total conversion mod for Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction that modifies the game by replacing character skills, improving items and monsters, and adding new uberquests (1.13c compatible).
PlugY
A mod that adds infinitive and shared storage along with other features.
Run game without CD
- As of patch 1.12, the game officially supports running with no CD. Some newer copies of the game are set up to run with no CD by default.
- If you register your CD keys on the Battle.net website, you can download disc-free installers, even if you have lost the discs themselves.
- Although there is no limit to how many computers you can install the game to, only one computer can be logged in to Battle.net with a given CD key at a time.
For older copies of the game, you will need to do the following:
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
Save game data location
- For single player only. See Battle.net save files for details on the multiplayer save system
Battle.net save files
Battle.net Realm characters are stored in the cloud and are tied to your Battle.net account; however, they are only accessible on the realm (server) on which they were created (US-East, US-West, etc.). They are not playable in single-player, LAN, Open Battle.net, or direct-IP-connection online play. Realm characters expire after 90 days of inactivity; to reset the inactivity timer, you will need to perform basic activity, such as buying or selling an item or killing a monster. In addition, newly created Realm characters expire after 10 days unless they are played for at least 2 hours during those 10 days. "Open" (non-Realm) characters are used for single-player, LAN, Open Battle.net, and direct-IP-connection online play; they are not playable on the Battle.net Realms. They are stored locally in the "save" folder in your DII install folder. Note that there is no hack protection for Open characters.
Video settings
Widescreen resolution
- 800x600 is the highest available resolution for the vanilla version of Diablo II. You can stretch this using windowed mode with a fixed ratio (See the Command-line arguments section on how to disable it).
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Input settings
Audio settings
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | US and EU | |||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Italian | ||||
Korean | ||||
Polish | ||||
Spanish | ||||
Traditional Chinese |
Network
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
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LAN play | 8 | |||
Online play | 8 |
Connection types
Type | Native | Notes |
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Matchmaking | ||
Peer-to-peer | ||
Dedicated | ||
Self-hosting | ||
Direct IP |
Ports
Protocol | Port(s) and/or port range(s) |
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TCP | 4000, 6112 |
- Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.
Issues fixed
Graphical Glitches and/or slowdowns in full screen mode
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Better performance with Glide Wrapper
Diablo II supports three different rendering modes: DirectDraw
, Direct3D
and Glide
. DirectDraw
offers the worst performance, and does not support perspective effects. Direct3D
offers better performance but causes color issues on many newer machines. Glide
offers the best performance of them all, no color issues, and improved ground textures to boot, but is not natively compatible with non-3DFX graphics cards. However, there are many "Glide wrappers" that emulate Glide
in OpenGL. The most popular of these is Sven's Glide Wrapper, which was specifically designed for this game; other general-purpose Glide wrappers that work with multiple games are also available.
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Additional useful Sven's Glide Wrapper settings
Type | Name/Code | Info |
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Settings | window-mode |
Be aware that when used in combination with static size window-scaling the mouse cursor will jump around the screen when opening your inventory via the keyboard. All window-mode-specific settings only work if you have this setting enabled.
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Settings | captured mouse |
If you're running in a window, or in fullscreen with a second monitor attached, this will lock the mouse cursor to the game screen. If you are running in fullscreen on your only monitor, this will have no effect. |
Settings | keep aspect ratio |
Turn this on if you have a widescreen monitor, and are running in a window or have Desktop Resolution on, to force the game to display in 4:3 letterbox rather than stretched.
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Settings | window extras |
Turning this on will allow you to resize the window in Windowed Mode. |
Settings | refreshrate |
If you are running in Fullscreen Mode and are having problems, try setting this to the refresh rate of your monitor. |
Settings | desktopresolution |
In Fullscreen Mode, this makes it so that, instead of changing the output resolution of your graphics card, the game is scaled up to that resolution. This can decrease performance, so it's recommended to turn this on if and only if your monitor has trouble displaying 640x480 and/or 800x600 resolutions (some TFT monitors have this problem), or if you want to use bilinear filtering .
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Renderer | 32 bit rendering |
Turn this on if and only if your graphics card has trouble rendering 16-bit color. |
Renderer | bilinear filtering |
If Settings - desktopresolution is enabled, this can increase image quality at the expense of performance.
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Renderer | supersampling |
If Extensions - WGL_ARB_render_texture is enabled, this can increase image quality at the expense of performance.
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Renderer | shader-gamma |
In Windowed Mode, this will make the gamma setting only affect the Diablo II window. Also, try this setting if you are trying to take screenshots, but they come out lighter or darker than what is displayed on screen. However, this reduces performance. |
Renderer | keep desktop composition |
Under Windows Vista/7, this will stop the game from disabling Aero effects. This can decrease performance. |
Extensions | Usually all of these should be enabled, except for the ones listed as unsupported. The main exception is WGL_ARB_render_texture , which increases the image quality if Desktop Resolution" is activated or if you are running in windowed mode and have changed the window size, at the expense of performance. If you are having problems, try disabling extensions.
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Battle.net Verify Error
If you are unable to connect to Battle.net on Windows Vista or Windows 7, the problem is that the installation folder is a location which requires administrator access (i.e. the default install location, C:\Program Files\). To fix this, do one of two things:
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Unhandled Exception: Access Violation (c000005) Error
Newer video cards may no longer support Diablo 2.[citation needed]
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Colorization Problems Windows Vista and Windows 7
- Update the game to patch 1.14b by connecting to Battle.net.
Mouse lag/low frame rate in single player
- Diablo II caps the frame rate at 25 FPS in Singleplayer Mode; some users have reported that this causes mouse lag.
- Multiplayer Mode does not have this cap.
A workaround is to create a password-protected "Other Multiplayer" game; "Other Multiplayer" characters are shared with single-player mode.
You need not be connected to the Internet or a LAN to do this, and nobody will be able to join your game unless you give them your IP address and password. However, unlike in single-player mode, the map will be randomly regenerated each time you play (though you can still transport between any waypoints you've visited).
Battle.net accounts
"Legacy" Battle.net accounts (for Diablo II, WarCraft II, WarCraft III and StarCraft) are not the same as Battle.net 2.0 accounts (for Diablo III, StarCraft II and World of WarCraft). Even if you have one of the latter, you will still need to create one of the former in order to play Diablo II on Battle.net. You can create the account in-game.
Up to eight characters can be created per account, but there is no limit on the number of accounts you can have. You do not have to buy a separate copy of the game for each account. However, if you installed Diablo II on multiple computers using the same CD key, only one of those computers can be connected to Battle.net at one time.
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 6 | |
DirectDraw | 6.1 | |
OpenGL | Mac OS and OS X only. | |
Glide | 3.0 | |
Software renderer |
Executable | PPC | 16-bit | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Cutscenes | Bink Video, Smacker Video Technology | |
Multiplayer | Battle.net |
Command line
Command-line arguments
Command | Description |
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-w | Runs the game in windowed mode (also fixes slow start on Vista/7) |
-ns | No Sound |
-skiptobnet | Connects to closed Battle.net on start |
-nofixaspect | (windowed mode only) Disables the 4:3 ratio lock otherwise enforced when maximizing the game window. |
-act5 | New Single Player characters start in Act 5 with character level set to 33 |
In-game commands
Command | Description |
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/fps | Shows diagnostic information such as FPS, memory usage and latency |
/nopickup | Disables picking up of items unless ALT (show items) is held |
/soundchaosdebug | Fills out the available amount of sound channels with all sounds found in Diablo 2 |
/players X | where X is 1 to 8, changes the "player count" (to increase difficulty and experience gain) to the set amount (single player and local network play only) |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 95 | 98, ME, 2000, XP |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium 233 MHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 32 MB | 128 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 650 MB | 1.5 GB |
Video card (GPU) | DirectX 6.1 compatible |
Mac OS | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 8.1 | 9.2.2 |
Processor (CPU) | G3 processor or equivalent | |
System memory (RAM) | 64 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 650 MB | 950 MB |
Video card (GPU) | SVGA video card |