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Play Diablo 2 in high resolution and wide-screen formats
A few days ago, in the Starbucks down the street from my house, there were two guys huddled around a laptop. Call of Duty: World at War was running. You could hear the faint sounds of World War II coming from the headphones dangling around one guy's neck. "I'm schiess auffiing the fenster," he told his friend.
Today, they had a third friend along. And each of them had a laptop. They were sitting at the big table that's supposed to be reserved for handicapped folks. They were playing Diablo 2 with each other. Waves of spell effects surged across their screens. The normal people in Starbucks passing by to put milk and sugar in their coffees turned their heads to see what the colorful commotion was. There but for the grace of God (and the fact that I don't have Diablo 2 installed on my laptop) go I.
Which reminded me of this mod to run Diablo 2 in resolutions higher than 800x600, something that wasn't previously possible. You can download the files and see some comparative screenshots in this thread.
(Thanks to Tim James, who also points out that the monsters won't activate beyond the range of the game's native resolution.)
By Patrick at 12:17 PM ON 06/09/09
I was looking for something to do this a while back. I couldn't find anything. Thanks for pointing this out!
By AppleMason at 12:35 PM ON 06/09/09
Now I have the urge to play it again. Thanks Tom!
By Phogo at 2:53 PM ON 06/09/09
I tried replaying D2 and its expansion a couple months ago when D3 was announced. I couldn't do it because the resolution was so terrible. I'll take a second look now.
FYI you can enter your cd key into the new battle.net and download your games. Nice to ditch those ancient CDs.
By Shaw at 4:33 PM ON 06/09/09
I just cannot get this 'patch' to work
By Hawkin at 6:37 PM ON 06/09/09
I abandoned Diablo 2 long ago when my old PC died a horrible death, and playing it on my laptop involved peering at the tiny square in the middle of the screen to see what was going on. Maybe this will make it worth playing again.
By vanaero at 3:04 AM ON 06/10/09
hey this worked pretty good on xp! dang u I finally stopped playing that game and now have wasted the whole day playing again. when is d3 gonna come out?!?!?!?
By mystery at 3:12 PM ON 06/10/09
For some reason, I can't get the thing to open the window for D2 in the upper left corner of the screen. As it stands, I can only support about 1152x780 res, as the window's upper left corner sits dead center on the screen. ...and there's no title bar for dragging it around.
By jonnypolite at 1:44 AM ON 06/12/09
Works great under Windows 7, thanks Tom! Looks terrific, finally going to finish this game. Maybe.
By Recomended at 3:59 AM ON 06/27/09
Before you install the D2MultiRes, install the latest patch under the Diablo 2 or Diablo 2 -LOD because Diablo 2 without 1.12a patch some crash probable when run the D2MultiRes!!
By Dont Bother at 11:25 PM ON 07/06/09
dont bother if you want to play on battle.net it wont let you
By microbu at 2:29 PM ON 08/05/09
hi, i have some problems with this patch, and i hope to find my answer here. First time when i start the game using D2MultiResGame.exe, i pick one of my character, and then in the game when i go to change the resolution.. after i choose 1240x.. ,the game turned off. Now when i enter again in the game using D2multi.. i pick one of my characters and then the game instant turned off .. This is my sistem:
Video: Gainward GeForce GTX 260 Golden Sample 896MB DDR3 448-bit;
Arctic Cooling Fusion 550W;
Coler proc: Scythe NINJA 2;
Proc: AMD Phenom II X4 940 Black; Edition;3.00 GHz skt AM2+ box;
Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD4;
Ram: Mushkin 4GB DDR2 1000MHz CL5 Dual Channel Kit;
Hdd: Western Digital 640GB SATA-II 7200 rpm 16MB Caviar SE16;
Monitor: LG Flatron W2284F.
I wait some answers pls.. Thanks
By Sudz at 5:17 PM ON 08/23/09
This patch did not work for me as it should; in the Video Options menu, there is no option at all for setting the resolution. I ended up going into the registry and forcing the change there (which did in fact then allow me to play at the resolution specified), but I'm seeing lots of gray 'bars' moving across the screen when I play now. Is this maybe a problem with Windows 7?
Sudz
By ph at 10:32 AM ON 09/07/09
as a mac user and blizz fanboi i'd like to see an OSX version of the high resolution mod. is there by any chance something like this on a mac?
thanks in advance!
chris
ph:
as a mac user and blizz fanboi i'd like to see an OSX version of the high resolution mod. is there by any chance so...More »