Help,installed diablo 2 can't get it to work

[Enderguy]

Diablo 2 is my first game i've installed on my linux so heres my situation:Alright i've been able to install Diablo 2 on linux with wine but i try to play it nothing comes up i tired booting from the disk the game file on the c drive and everything i even tried running it with wine core which got me to the start screen but when i press play game the screen goes blank please help with a step by step complete tutorial explaining EVERYTHING also im using wine nothing else don't give me links for what you use for i have no internet on it also is it possible to run it through terminal?

Additional Details
I've got the same exact problem as this guy: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index ... 159AAhcV9j

Sorry that was a copy and paste from an earlier conversation im not THAT angrey anymore!Lol but please do help guys.

[dardack]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Enderguy <[email protected]> wrote:

Diablo 2 is my first game i've installed on my linux so heres my
situation:Alright i've been able to install Diablo 2 on linux with wine but
i try to play it nothing comes up i tired booting from the disk the game
file on the c drive and everything i even tried running it with wine core
which got me to the start screen but when i press play game the screen goes
blank please help with a step by step complete tutorial explaining
EVERYTHING also im using wine nothing else don't give me links for what you
use for i have no internet on it also is it possible to run it through
terminal?

Additional Details
I've got the same exact problem as this guy:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index ... 159AAhcV9j

Sorry that was a copy and paste from an earlier conversation im not THAT
angrey anymore!Lol but please do help guys.

Video card? driver/version?

Also, is Compiz on?

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Sincerely,

MacNean C. Tyrrell
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[Enderguy]

Oh i deniatly meet the system requirment interms of video cards.But what is compiz?

[dimesio]

Oh i deniatly meet the system requirment interms of video cards.

That's not what you were asked.

[dardack]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Enderguy <[email protected]>wrote:

Oh i deniatly meet the system requirment interms of video cards.But what is
compiz?



As dimesio said that's not what you were asked, just because you meet it in

windows, doesn't mean your graphics card is well supported in linux.
Secondly, compiz can mess with Diablo 2 (I had to disable it). It's a
windows management decorating system. Used in gnome/unity/etc. I don't
think with Unity you can get rid of it, as Unity seems to be all about the
eye candy (why I hate it). In gnome, right click desktop, go to visual
effects, select none. If memory serves, at work on a windows machine so
can't tell you 100%.



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MacNean C. Tyrrell
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[Enderguy]

Im starting to think that its my direct x not being compatible seeing as though my wine screen remains blank and when i tried to launch a baldur's gate cintematic it didn't work how can i get direct x to work?But no i don't have compiz running.

[dimesio]

Im starting to think that its my direct x not being compatible seeing as though my wine screen remains blank and when i tried to launch a baldur's gate cintematic it didn't work how can i get direct x to work?But no i don't have compiz running.

Is there a reason you're still keeping your graphics card and driver a secret?

[Enderguy]

Because i don't know them.

[dardack]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 7:22 AM, Enderguy <[email protected]> wrote:

Because i don't know them.





Ok output of lspci -v

Then for driver I think:

*cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep -i driver*
*
*
Will work, but I'm not 100% sure if that gives driver version or just which
driver your current using (ie if nvidia graphics, it make just say nvidia,
now like 285.x 273.x etc)




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MacNean C. Tyrrell
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[DaVince]

Im starting to think that its my direct x not being compatible seeing as though my wine screen remains blank and when i tried to launch a baldur's gate cintematic it didn't work how can i get direct x to work?But no i don't have compiz running.

First things first. DirectX on Linux won't be a problem because there is no Microsoft DirectX. Wine has its own implementation of DirectX, which is the same version every other Wine user will use. Thus, if a game doesn't work for you and it works for someone else, it is much more likely you don't have proper 3D-supporting graphics drivers for your video card, rather than it being a DirectX problem.

(It can still be that, because Wine DirectX is so vastly different and here and there not as complete, but it's much less likely than being a graphics driver problem.)

You can test if you have proper 3D graphics driver by running any native Linux 3D game. I find Armagetron and Sauerbraten are pretty good test cases. If they launch, you know that you have 3D hardware acceleration on your video driver. If they don't, you don't.

Now, if you use Ubuntu, there is actually a proprietary driver manager that will probably indicate if you have sufficiently working graphics drivers installed (I forget where it is, haven't used Ubuntu in a while). You can also choose to install it from there.

Finally, the reason you were asked for details on the graphics drivers is because a Wine dev can usually fairly quickly tell you if it's going to work or not. For example, most of the ATI Radeon 4xxx series cards seem rather safe (in my personal experience), in that they have actual worrking graphics drivers.