Diablo 2

[DaHotFuzz]

Hello all,

So I just bought Diablo 2 through the Blizzard app and I came across a small problem:

The game looks very zoomed in and there just isn't much room to work with. I remember when I played years ago there was a feature in the options that toggled zoom or something along those lines. I'm not talking about anything related to resolution - it was an option you could toggle I believe that zoomed the game out and made it look A LOT better.

I don't see this feature in Diablo 2 now after having bought it. I should also note I didn't get LoD yet, only have the base game.

Is there a fix for this?

Thanks

[Cathulhu]

You need to have the Lord of Destruction addon as well.
Diablo 2 only allows 640x480, with LoD you can play on 800x600 resolution.

[DaHotFuzz]

Originally posted by Cathulhu:

You need to have the Lord of Destruction addon as well.
Diablo 2 only allows 640x480, with LoD you can play on 800x600 resolution.

Okay, thank you for the response. You saved me a lot of time trying to research this and I was hesitant on spending another $10 for the expansion.

[Cathulhu]

It's worth it for the content alone. LoD made Diablo 2 leaps and bounds better in pretty much every way.

[DaHotFuzz]

Originally posted by Cathulhu:

It's worth it for the content alone. LoD made Diablo 2 leaps and bounds better in pretty much every way.

Easily. It's one of my favorite games. Huge part of my childhood. It's a dream come true Blizzard made it easily compatible with a modern OS. No more having to jump through millions of hoops.

My only concern is playing with a friend. Years ago trying to play with someone over IP was a nightmare to get working. Hoping it's not as hard this time around.

[Entgegner]

Hey dude, here is a file from a guy, who build a wrapper, what allows Diablo 2 to adjust its resolution into your screens resolution, like 1080p or 1440p.

http://www.svenswrapper.de/english/index.html

Absolute awesome, no pixeled Diablo anymore :)
But it's no magic, the textures will stay the same.

I just wanted to start a new Hero in Diablo 2, would be nice if you're still interested playing it.

[Sikobae]

Originally posted by Goku:

file from a guy, who build a wrapper

I wish you had gone into more detail. This download allows D2 to use the Glide renderer converted to OpenGL. It's just plain better than Direct3D and DirectDraw. There's some options you'll have to adjust to make it actually look good, and you shouldn't have any problems with performance unless you're playing on an underpowered Walmart laptop or a system from 1998.

Start off under "OpenGL-infos" and hit Query, to open up options that might vary across GPUs.

Settings : Use Desktopresolution to scale the internal 800x600 game area to the desktop.
Use Keep Aspect Ratio to prevent stretching. The framerate will go higher than the internal 25 in network games, so you will want to use FPS Limit 58.8.

Renderer : Go ahead and max out texture memory to 108, and buffer size to 4096x.
32 bit rendering, 'texture for videos', bilinear filtering, and Shader-Gamma all on.
Supersampling optional, try out both off and on.
If you have Windows 7 do NOT use Keep Desktop Compostion if Aero is on. Glide D2 cannot start with Aero active, and needs to automatically disable it when ran. Aero is renabled when the game is closed.

Extensions : Just turn them all on.

Now make a shortcut to 'game.exe' on the desktop, add this at the end of Target : -3dfx -w
This makes the game run in a fullscreen window, which makes it incredibly easy to Alt Tab. I've experienced this to be a little bit broken when 1.14 was launched, so you might have to get rid of '-w'.

Originally posted by DaHotFuzz:

Years ago trying to play with someone over IP was a nightmare to get working. Hoping it's not as hard this time around.

Just port forward, or use Hamachi. If you actually own a CD key, just use Battle net and play on Ladder. You're open up to some extra goodies (runewords, uniques, world events) that don't appear for Local characters.