How to play Diablo II on Linux (SuSE or Fedora or Redhat)

nguyennh · 02-27-2006, 12:53 AM

Dear all ,

Can we install and play Diablo II on Linux ? If we can , please show me how to do that . I've already had wine on my Linux system .

Many thanks and best regards .

TruongAn · 02-27-2006, 03:21 AM

wine is extreme slow on game and I found no way to make the game's sound work, so, you should use cedega .

nomb · 02-28-2006, 05:54 PM

first off wine ran diablo II fine on my laptop and if u have sound issues run winecfg and configure your sound. It worked fine on mine. Secondly, cedega does run diablo II as well I didn't see any performance increase and u have to pay for it. (I did buy it tho) they have a 14 day trial you can download and see if you like it

to install Diablo II with wine use the following (assuming you have wine installed):

If you have not configured wine just type wine.

# wine
(it will set itself up)

# wine /media/DiabloII_Play/install.exe

it will run and be self explanatory. the above is just to give you an idea i don't remember the disc name

nguyennh · 02-28-2006, 08:11 PM

Oh , thank nomb for your help . I've done my thread and it works successfully . :-)

TruongAn · 02-28-2006, 11:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nomb

It worked fine on mine. Secondly, cedega does run diablo II as well I didn't see any performance increase and u have to pay for it. (I did buy it tho) they have a 14 day trial you can download and see if you like it

May be your laptop was too strong to run Diablo.
I have a quite old computer and it runs windows app rather slow.
I have a bit performance increase with cedega.
By the way, there is many thread on this forum tell you how to get cedega for free via CVS

sdexp · 03-01-2006, 01:25 AM

Does cedega come with most distributions or does it have to be downloaded and compiled separately?

AC97Conquerer · 03-01-2006, 01:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sdexp

Does cedega come with most distributions or does it have to be downloaded and compiled separately?

Downloaded and compiled seperately.

A good article about Cedega (got from googling... `Cedega` lol):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedega

I'm pretty sure this is legal because Transgaming allows CVS source grabs, and these .deb files are probably CVS freezes:
http://www.google.com/search?q=cedega+filetype%3Adeb

If you have Debian or Ubuntu you can do this:

Code:

dpkg -i thefile.deb

Otherwise extract the files out of the .deb file:

Code:

# ar x thefile.deb
# ls
control.tar.gz data.tar.gz debian-binary thefile_i386.deb
# tar xzf data.tar.gz -C /

And I guess you'd have to play around with the data to work it out. There might be some debian tools for Red Hat or whichever linux distro that doesn't have Debian .deb capabilities to work with the .deb files correctly.

Regards,
Corey Hollaway

TruongAn · 03-01-2006, 10:01 AM

OK, you can also have a look at this thread:http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=409664