Diablo II
Single & Multiplayer Role Playing
Diablo II
Blizzard Entertainment | Released Jun 29, 2000
Since the beginning of time, the forces of Order and Chaos have been engaged in an eternal struggle to decide the fate of all Creation. That struggle has now come to the Mortal Realm...and neither Man, Demon, nor Angel will be left unscathed.
D2MultiRes
Diablo 2 in a higher resolution? Yes its true, and yes it rocks!
Posted by Henley on Jul 25th, 2009 digg this super bookmark
I really do love me some Diablo 2, so much so 2-3 times a year I'll do a massive co-op runs with my mates, and have done so ever since its release. The problem is the game is old, and my pc is well... new. Because of our humanly ways to keep making advancements in the field of computing its getting quite difficult to come back to a game who's highest resolution is 800x600. As that size be tiny yo.
Thanks to the talented skills of a modder who goes by the name Sluggy you can now play Diablo 2 in any resolution that your pc can support! This is great news as no longer will my mouse slip out of the small window and open flash, no longer will my spells refuse to cast as I accidentally click my desktop instead! Finally. It comes at a cost though as you will not be able to participate in any Battle.net multiplayer stuff which is a shame I guess but in my opinion Diablo 2 is much better with close friends at a lan hyped up on coke (the drink you fools).
Diablo 2 showing off its stuff in 1280x1024.
Mod_Author wrote:This unofficial "patch" allows you to play Diablo II in resolutions other than 640x480 and 800x600. It is, for the most part, completed, but there are still a few issues that have not been worked out. The "patch" lets you select any resolution 640x480 or higher that is supported by your current display adapter/monitor. There are no other changes to the game other than this.
Anyways you can download the mod from your favourite modding website ever, in the mean time enjoy the awesomeness that is these fantastic screens.
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Wow, totally what it needed!
I guess I'll be playing in window mode now...
What about widescreen? No stretching or anything like that?
Its not stretching (im useing 1440x900 16:10), i have this now for a long time, so this tools was a life saver for me ^^
Heres some shots i made:
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awesome!
is anyone else having problems with it running?
No seriously WTF is this?
Why is one of my charecters gone...
why are my save files not working...
why am I not seeing any options for resolution changes...
why is my computer spouting more errors than a 1st term java app...
and why is Diablo now saying that its having "Unhandeled suggestions" and "access violations"
And Now why is my virus scanner going ape shit crazy!!! and Avast has not led me astry in the past.
I swear if I wasent so kinda-hearted and innocent, Id be getting mighty suspicious right about now...
Oh it works, just make sure you read the readme file.
I did, even removed all my changes and redid it step by step.
I'm beginning to think i should try to remove all mods and changes Ive already made to the game(I don't remember putting any on after the last time i installed it, but its possible I forgot), and then ill reinstall. It doesn't say anything about it not working well with other mods, but maybe its something obscure.
All right, for future reference. This game is not for diablo 2, but for its expansion. Yes its a bit deceiving that it doesn't make a huge deal about it not actually being for the game its listed under.
So If you don't have LOD you cant use it without a bit of tampering.
However its not guaranteed that you can use it even if you have the LOD expansion. I couldn't, so I searched around on a few forms and found this posted by some guy named Orfax that explains how to get it running even if you don't have lod, or lod isn't working.
This involves changing your registry, so if you feel uncomfortable in doing that, or you don't know what that is, then don't do it.
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Firstly run the D2MultiResGame exe that comes with the patch. It should start the game and generate a log file. You can't change the res in-game in a non-LoD Diablo II install because there is no resolution button, so exit the game. Look in the D2MultiResLog.txt log file (in your Diablo II folder). It should have a bunch of resolutions it found. Something like this...
Added Display Mode: 10: 640 x 480
Added Display Mode: 11: 1280 x 800
Added Display Mode: 12: 1280 x 960
Added Display Mode: 13: 1280 x 1024
Added Display Mode: 14: 1680 x 1050
Added Display Mode: 15: 1920 x 1080
See the number after "Mode:". Remember the number for the resolution you want to run it in. For me I wanted to run it 1920x1080, so 15 was my number.
Run regedit, search for "D2RMRes". Its parent folder should be "Diablo II". Change its value to that number you remembered. The number is a decimal number. Close regedit, and rerun the D2MultiResGame exe. Once you get into the game itself, you should have your nice new resolution.
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This guys suggestion worked for me, and the results are impressive.
Still dont know why Avast didnt like the patch that first time though.
Nevermind.
This is old, i had this like year ago...
Does this work with Pluggy?
Can i use this on bnet? Or I get banned for it?
Well I did say in the news post...
Oh, sry my bad, i didn't read the whole.
It has a seperate .exe so I guess bnet wont work.
can you play LAN with this? I hope so cause I today's MMORPG's suck! except WoW and the WC3 RPG Maps!
please send me a PM with answer ause I won't be back on the internet for a while and I will forget to come back!
Awesome patch!I hope Blizzard add higher resolutions officialy in patch 1.13.
"Thanks to the talented skills of a modder whose name I am having trouble finding (sorry pal)"
According to the release announcement on Phrozenkeep (http://phrozenkeep.planetdiablo.gamespy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=51560), the author is Sluggy.
(I'd've made that a link, but idk how yet, nor can I quote-and-edit badtrane's comment to see how it's done.)
Thanks, I've edited the post to show this.
"in my opinion Diablo 2 is much better with close friends at a lan"
and thats why there will be no LAN in D3
Jay Wilson:"We have no intent to support LAN games"
Awwwwwww BULLSHIT
v LAN is never outdated. Unless you don't have friends.
LAN is outdated anyways, with high speed internet connections being as cheap as 20$ today, not many people use them anyways.
This almost makes me want to install D2 again, but lack of B.Net support is kinda iffy...SP isn't that fun(Well, I beat SP like 100 times, so yeh. )
I am gonna try it out!
Do I need to own a license of the original Diablo2 for this to work? Will this game work with Hamachi?
Interesting, Ill try this !
this doesn't work with Sven's OpenGL-Glide wrapper :(. I get low fps on d2 when i use this with DirectDraw. would be nice to support the wrapper.
Since I'm the person that took those pictures, I would like to say a few things about this mod since I've used for a while and know several details that may be important to some.
1. If you use a ATI card, make sure you disable Catalyst AI
2. If you are running a very high resolution, make sure you turn off perspective otherwise you get glitches.
3. This mod requires the latest version of Diablo 2 to run.
4. This mod not only works on Vista and Windows 7, it actually runs faster. I speculate this is due to Superfetch. I'm not really sure but there is no denying it runs better on Vista/7 during heavy fighting.
5. This mod will run faster in software mode, but Directx render looks 10 times better.
6. When going to a new area or town, the game must preload some files, but after a few seconds the game SHOULD return to normal speed. The higher the resolution you run, the longer it takes.
so no OpenGL support :(. OpenGL looks better and runs faster than DirectX.
Not on NVIDIA cards.
...not on AMD ATI cards.
NVIDIA is actually good at openGL.