Monday, August 20, 2012

Diablo III on Wine

So the fruit of all the hard work I've done on backporting Wine 1.5.10 has finally been revealed.  Surprisingly, much of Diablo III's installation is problem free once you get the new builds of Wine.  Here it is in all its glory.



More details after the jump!
Once you've got Wine 1.5.10 running, you may trip up on a problem I encountered which was that I couldn't create a character.  The game would also freeze as a result of this.  Once you've tried it once, you would get stuck while retrieving the hero list.  I found a real helpful tip on how to deal with this that hopefully will help all of you too.  The commandline I ended up using is this:

env WINEPREFIX="/path/to/Diablo/wineprefix" setarch i386 -3 -L -B -R wine C:\\Program\ Files\\Diablo\ III\\Diablo\ II.exe -opengl

And now, some more nice screenshots!
Character Creation
Tavern

Inital thoughts of the game so far?  It's okay.  A lot of clicking to kill monsters, and not much else so far.


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