Comments: Installing Diablo II in 2019

[remusao]

Link: https://remusao.github.io/posts/installing-diablo2-ubuntu-sandboxing.html

[lucamosca1]

Just a note since I reinstalled it in this quarantine period :D After you install diablo 2 con windows pc, to play on battle.net you need to install the latest patch. This process is automatically handled by game, but you need to run as administrator to install this patch. So, install D2, then run it the first time as admin and connect to battle.net install latest patch

HTH

[Th3-Think3r]

I keep getting this error -

Error: inaccessible profile file: /etc/firejail/wine.profile

I am located in etc/firejail/ - I created the directory /sandboxes/wine and copied in the downloader. I navigate to the download files via terminal and run the prompt to install but get the above error.

[remusao]

@Th3-Think3r could you maybe paste the exact commands you ran so that I can check? Also, can you check what you have in /etc/firejail as well as which version of firejail you have installed?

[Th3-Think3r]

Alright I got it working - I got through my CD-key

Now, when I click "Play Diablo" it will launch. When trying to patch through battle.net i get the following error.

https://ibb.co/jLNHcfK

[remusao]

@Th3-Think3r yes this is expected unfortunately and this can be solved by downloading the patch and installing manually before launching the game for the first time. There are a few more details in the last section of the article.

[Th3-Think3r]

Now I am getting this error - lol

I have installed both d2 and d2lod - have them both patched up. I can play single player fine but when connecting to battlenet the game is crashing

I really want to play this game lol - I see tons of other people posting about it crashing at Battle.net login screen but I haven't really seen a solid fix.

I dont want to buy windows just to play D2 lol

[remusao]

@Th3-Think3r as far as I remember there is a way to get it working by deleting a specific file in D2 install folder. I will try to find this trick again tomorrow and update my comment.

[Th3-Think3r]

I would really appreciate it. I've been trying to get this to work for hours. Only needing to do this because I didnt know newest iOS doesn't work with D2 either..

[karsten-cliqz]

@Th3-Think3r I've had this issue as well and what solved it for me is this: when launching D2 (via wine) it sort of matters which folder you're in. An mpq file with a long name like 8F4AB75......mpg is created when you're trying to connect to the battle.net (or maybe even earlier, I can't recall). So before I started the game, I moved to ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/DiabloII/ (may be different depending on where/how you installed the game and wine - also I didn't use firejail) and deleted the existing file. Now when I connect to battle.net a new file is created in the folder I'm in when I start diablo. Note that when you start the game from a different folder later on though, you might have trouble again. I just added an alias to .bash_aliases that switched to the folder and started the game from there`. Let me know if this helps please, I've stopped playing some time ago so this is from memory.

[JoJohn86]

im using the apps wine and playonlinux. i was able to install Diablo II but trying to get the LOD i keep getting errors. it's saying i need to download diablo 2. it sees as if its missing and its not. i was wondering if you guys could help me. if i have to delete it all and try with firejail i guess i could but it was pretty ticky getting the installers to get this far

[JoJohn86]

joshua@AMD:~$ wine '/media/joshua/Game Disk/Games/Diablo II/Diablo II.exe'
joshua@AMD:~$ wine: Read access denied for device L"\\??\\Z:\\", FS volume label and serial are not available.
wine: Read access denied for device L"\\??\\Z:\\", FS volume label and serial are not available.
wine: Read access denied for device L"\\??\\Z:\\", FS volume label and serial are not available.
wine: Read access denied for device L"\\??\\Z:\\", FS volume label and serial are not available.
wine: Read access denied for device L"\\??\\Z:\\", FS volume label and serial are not available.
wine: Read access denied for device L"\\??\\Z:\\", FS volume label and serial are not available.
wine: Read access denied for device L"\\??\\Z:\\", FS volume label and serial are not available.
wine: Read access denied for device L"\\??\\Z:\\", FS volume label and serial are not available.
wine: Read access denied for device L"\\??\\Z:\\", FS volume label and serial are not available.
wine: Read access denied for device L"\\??\\Z:\\", FS volume label and serial are not available.
wine: Read access denied for device L"\\??\\Z:\\", FS volume label and serial are not available.
wine: Read access denied for device L"\\??\\Z:\\", FS volume label and serial are not available.
wine: Read access denied for device L"\\??\\Z:\\", FS volume label and serial are not available.
wine: Read access denied for device L"\\??\\Z:\\", FS volume label and serial are not available.
wine: Read access denied for device L"\\??\\Z:\\", FS volume label and serial are not available.
wine: Read access denied for device L"\\??\\Z:\\", FS volume label and serial are not available.
wine: Read access denied for device L"\\??\\Z:\\", FS volume label and serial are not available.
wine: Read access denied for device L"\\??\\Z:\\", FS volume label and serial are not available.
wine: Read access denied for device L"\\??\\Z:\\", FS volume label and serial are not available.
wine: Read access denied for device L"\\??\\Z:\\", FS volume label and serial are not available.
wine: Read access denied for device L"\\??\\Z:\\", FS volume label and serial are not available.
joshua@AMD:~$ wine: Read access denied for device L"\\??\\Z:\\", FS volume label and serial are not available.
joshua@AMD:~$ '/home/joshua/Downloads/Downloader_Diablo2_Lord_of_Destruction_enUS.exe'
bash: /home/joshua/Downloads/Downloader_Diablo2_Lord_of_Destruction_enUS.exe: Permission denied
joshua@AMD:~$ wine '/home/joshua/Downloads/Downloader_Diablo2_Lord_of_Destruction_enUS.exe' 
Could not find Wine Gecko. HTML rendering will be disabled.
003b:err:mshtml:create_document_object Failed to init Gecko, returning CLASS_E_CLASSNOTAVAILABLE
joshua@AMD:~$ 001f:err:appbar:appbar_wndproc couldn't open calling process
001f:err:appbar:appbar_wndproc couldn't open calling process
001f:err:appbar:appbar_wndproc couldn't open calling process
001f:err:appbar:appbar_wndproc couldn't open calling process
joshua@AMD:~$ 001f:err:appbar:appbar_wndproc couldn't open calling process
001f:err:appbar:appbar_wndproc couldn't open calling process
001f:err:appbar:appbar_wndproc couldn't open calling process
001f:err:appbar:appbar_wndproc couldn't open calling process
joshua@AMD:~$ 002b:err:d3d:wined3d_device_cleanup Device released with resources still bound.
002b:err:d3d:wined3d_device_cleanup Leftover resource 0x42230d8 with type WINED3D_RTYPE_TEXTURE_2D (0x3).
joshua@AMD:~$ wine '/home/joshua/Downloads/Downloader_Diablo2_Lord_of_Destruction_enUS.exe' 
Could not find Wine Gecko. HTML rendering will be disabled.
0009:err:mshtml:create_document_object Failed to init Gecko, returning CLASS_E_CLASSNOTAVAILABLE
wine: Read access denied for device L"\\??\\Z:\\", FS volume label and serial are not available.

[remusao]

Hi @JoJohn86, I have had success in the past installing Diablo 2 using PlayOnLinux but it's been a while. If you want to try with Wine only, you do not need to go the Firejail road (it's more like a bonus). Can you maybe tell me which system you are working on and which version of wine you have?

[JoJohn86]

i got it. the patch that downloads from battle.net is broken so i just flash drived the whole D2 LOD folder off my windows computer and moved it to here

[ghost]

Hi @remusao, have you tried PlugY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml9W6zezO_o, http://plugy.free.fr/en/index.html) with your Diablo II installation? People say this mod adds just Quality of Life features and that is so good they don't want to go back to vanilla. What do you think?

[remusao]

Hi @frbrz, I did not try Plugy personally but I heard good things about it as well. I usually prefer playing the vanilla Diablo 2 experience, though. Probably out of nostalgia :)

[ghost]

I read somewhere that, if you run plugy inside the same wine bottle than diablo, it will work. I really don't understand much about this topic. This link has some information, https://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=30214&p=114654 Do you think is transferable to your instructions somehow?

[remusao]

In theory it should work. But as far as I can see Plugy does not support the latest Diablo 2 patch. On the official page the latest release is compatible with Diablo 2 version 1.13, but the latest Diabloe 2 patch is 1.14. So one way to make it work would be to install Diablo 2 in Wine as usual, but only install updates (probably manually) up to 1.13. Then install Plugy in the same wine environment. I did not try but I assume it should work. Also keep in mind that you might not be able to play online either (so only solo mode or LAN).

[ghost]

Uh... that's very complicated for my abilities. I will need to run vanilla or search for another option. Thank you.

[remusao]

@frbrz Were you able to install the base Diablo 2 game following the instructions in this article? Is so, I could try to add a dedicated section to install Plugy with similarly detailed explanations. Would that be helpful?

[ghost]

I installed Diablo 2 using Wine 5.0. Wine was installed using your instructions but I skipped Firejail, because I didn't see an advantage for gaming with legitimate files. The game ran perfectly. But I wanted to play the game in a higher resolution resolution, 800x600 is too low. I ran Median-XL, which includes higher resolutions, in a computer with Windows some days later because in Linux it's a nightmare. It's cool, but some changes to the interface are not. I know it sounds spoiled. People using higher resolutions are using D2 v1.14 and a Glide wrapper, but is a lot of work and I don't have v1.14 files (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fV7boMaM-s). I gave up. If you can run Median with your instructions it would be nice. I don't know.

[ghost]

i tried to do this using wine to run the .exe file from battle.net but when i click "install diablo 2" on the installer, nothing happens

[remusao]

@degenerate36 Can you maybe share the operating system you are using as well as version of wine? Also maybe the exact command you ran locally and any stack trace you might have in the terminal?

[ghost]

wine-3.6, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS(Bionic Beaver), i ran the command "wine Diablo.exe" I changed the name of the .exe file to Diablo for practicality (there's probably some big thing im missing or don't even know about)

[LouisDinatale]

@karsten-cliqz I tried to delete the file and ran from the correct folder but im still hanging at logging in to battle.net.

[LouisDinatale]

@Th3-Think3r I've had this issue as well and what solved it for me is this: when launching D2 (via wine) it sort of matters which folder you're in. An mpq file with a long name like 8F4AB75......mpg is created when you're trying to connect to the battle.net (or maybe even earlier, I can't recall). So before I started the game, I moved to ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/DiabloII/ (may be different depending on where/how you installed the game and wine - also I didn't use firejail) and deleted the existing file. Now when I connect to battle.net a new file is created in the folder I'm in when I start diablo. Note that when you start the game from a different folder later on though, you might have trouble again. I just added an alias to .bash_aliases that switched to the folder and started the game from there`. Let me know if this helps please, I've stopped playing some time ago so this is from memory.

I have tried this again with not luck, do you know if you need to delete the original .mpg file or just the file in the folder you are launching from?

[phatwhalemedia]

Hi everyone, I got a new error.

firejail \
  --profile=/etc/firejail/wine.profile \
  --private=~/.sandboxes/wine \
  wine ~/Downloader_Diablo2_enUS.exe
Reading profile /etc/firejail/wine.profile
Reading profile /etc/firejail/disable-common.inc
Reading profile /etc/firejail/disable-devel.inc
Reading profile /etc/firejail/disable-interpreters.inc
Reading profile /etc/firejail/disable-passwdmgr.inc
Reading profile /etc/firejail/disable-programs.inc
Warning: networking feature is disabled in Firejail configuration file
Parent pid 9452, child pid 9453
Child process initialized in 77.84 ms
0009:fixme:actctx:parse_depend_manifests Could not find dependent assembly L"Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls" (6.0.0.0)
0009:err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {cacaf262-9370-4615-a13b-9f5539da4c0a} not registered
0009:err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {cacaf262-9370-4615-a13b-9f5539da4c0a} could be created for context 0x1
0009:err:olepicture:OleLoadPicture IPersistStream_Load failed
0017:err:wininet:open_http_connection create_netconn failed: 12029

http error code = 12029

Any ideas on how to proceed? Running on PopOS! 20.04 focal. I'm gonna try to figure out how to open the networking features to see if it solves this.

[Briggs-Miller]

Not sure why, I had major issues with Battle.net - single player worked great. Did some hunting around (2+ hours) and this seemed to fix it: sudo apt-get install winehq-staging If you are having similar issues (everything works but crashes when you click battle.net) might be worth a try.

[m0h4x]

Hi there, i always, for some years, used this method to install D2 LoD on Linuxes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5moHwhTYGho but since the specter/meltdown and/or death of Linux Mint KDE edition, and/or booting some of the 32bit libs on modern linuxes it doesnt work anymore. Can only use it on outdated Linux Mint 18. Ill have to take a look at your method. Or use ReactOS. Since after i got fiber connection in my apartment i cant use/connect to internet / firefox/apt/battle.net on this system anymore. Tho ping works. And on a smartphone connection works too. So i dont know will have to check your instructions out. Cheers. :)