Good Day,
I just installed Diablo II and LoD with the hard-drive option that does not require CDs to play. I also applied the v1.12a patch. My installed platform is Windows XP Professional SP-3 and I am using a Dell Latitude D600. I traveled this week leaving my CDs at home only to be greeted in my hotel with an error when launching the game. The error is: Insert Expansion disc. I have 11 .mpq files within my Diablo II directory. What is preventing me from playing this game without having a disc?
Regards,
Keith
With this patch, players are no longer required to have the original Diablo II or expansion Diablo II Lord of Destruction CD in the CD-rom drive to play the game. Instructions on how to do this can be found in the updated patch.txt file in your Diablo. Jul 03, 2000 SHOW COMMENTS (260) HIDE COMMENTS (260) yippe Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on May 4, 2017 - 5:05pm.
The first thing I would ensure is having patch 1.12/1.13 installed which lets you play without any discs inserted (copy protection removed). You must copy all.mpq files from the disc(s) to your harddrive, though. Unfortunately, even this doesn't help on some systems (the disc check itself seems broken). CD Media World: LinkWorld: Music Target: CD/DVD Utilities: Diablo II Files: System Language Protection. Diablo 2: LoD ALL Multiple Copy Enabler - ThrawN; Diablo 2 & D2: LoD Editor v2.1 - CellarChild2000. Play Instructions: The GERMAN Diablo II will connect to an Europe Battlenet server, the US Version will connect to the USA Battlenet.
Do NOT attempt to play Battle.Net this way. You risk a ban!
This hack requires you to be running Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction (not classic!) on patch 1.12a.
Connecting to Battle.net will update your client to 1.13 which is incompatible with D2MultiRes at this time.
Download a mod, D2MultiRes.
Extract it to your game directory, and launch using D2MultiResGame.exe. Once you start a game, there will be a new “resolution” option in the video options menu. Select it, and resolutions above 800×600 will be available. Hots mirae for mac.
The readme warns that you may get bad graphics glitches in Direct3D mode. I did, myself. Refer to additional screenshots. But when I switched to DirectDraw 2D mode, it worked just fine. You can set this by running D2VidTst.exe. Sadly, DirectDraw 2D disables parallax scrolling and other visual effects.
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Lacking Direct3D mode is a pretty big one. But everything else seems fine.
Side-screens like inventory retain their original size, but take up half the screen with a tiled background (they originally took up half a 640×480 screen without needing any tiled background).
The HUD keeps its original size, with the life/mana spheres anchored to the corners, and the stamina and potions anchored to the bottom-center. And the map is pixel based.
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FMVs run at 640×480, but are hard-letterboxed to a theatrical 2.20:1. This means windowboxing on wide monitors.