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Feuer Frei!
04-15-11, 11:21 PM
I've done a search but to no avail.
I'm trying all the tricks under the sun to run this on Win 7
and it fires up, allbeit after 5 or so minutes but the graphics are under paar.
The tricks i've tried are:
Put shortcut of exe on desktop and put "-w" after path to start in windowed mode-no go

Rightclick on orig exe in game folder and run in XP mode with ALL options ticked-no go
Run as Win 2000 compatibility with ALL options ticked-no go
Ran video test exe inside game folder-no go.

What i mean by no go is that this game starts and i can play it but the graphics are not complete or rendered properly in screens so that it looks like a cheap and nasty 2d version which a 2 year old kid has designed.

Any of you guys have any other workarounds/fixes for this?
NeonSamurai
04-16-11, 02:48 PM
You tried using a glide wrapper? as I think the graphics look like that when using d3d
Feuer Frei!
04-16-11, 03:10 PM
Well what do you know? I am running it in windowed mode now.
There is a high res patch out but only for v1.2 not v1.3c.
Going to look into that a bit deeper, rumour is that there is a workaround for this to work on the game. Rather LOD, not the standalone.
NeonSamurai
04-16-11, 03:44 PM
Well for me it works perfectly fine (full cd install, including LoD expansion, 1.13c patch, and copying the files over so as not to use the cd).

With a glide wrapper like this one it looks as good as it ever did. D3D mode looks normal too.
http://www.svenswrapper.de/english/index.html
Jankowski
04-24-11, 07:16 AM
Right click on its shortcut and select properties. fiddle around with the settings. I know that you need to have disable desktop composition selected.
cuda
07-09-11, 10:54 PM
Do you have the right directx installed , i installed the older version and it works great so far. just a thought.
Feuer Frei!
07-09-11, 11:30 PM
Diablo2+LOD V1.13C running on my win 7 64-bit rig just yesterday. 24" screen.

Run Diablo 2 once, then exit out of it, then go into install folder and run the video test, select 3d and you are good to go.
If you want, there is a high-res fix that works with 1.13c, can't remember the name, it's NOT HIGHRES.
Also the other high res fix does not work in windowed mode, ie -w.
Let us know how you go.
EDIT: I never had to rightclick shortcut to run it.