Diablo 2 in Widescreen

[stubbie 21]

Want to play D2 again....but hate the old video resolutions?

 

Then THIS mod is your saviour!

It was posted over in the SIF by Wraithmage.

 

This mod allows you to play the game in much higher resolutions. You need to have LoD installed and patched up to 1.12a.

 

I am currently playing on my 1680 x 1050 widescreen and it looks great.

 

Highly recommended.

 

Oh.....and it fills in the time while waiting for the Sacred 2 servers to be fixed.

[Timotheus 416]

You're the greatest stubbs, awesome find

[stubbie 21]

Heres a screen shot

 

[Stéphane 2]

Be careful though, I heard that blizzard don't allow this mod on his servers (battlenet) because it's extend the range way too much.

Very powerful with caster and ranged weapons.

 

However it's very nice for SP

[stubbie 21]

Be careful though, I heard that blizzard don't allow this mod on his servers (battlenet) because it's extend the range way too much.

Very powerful with caster and ranged weapons.

 

However it's very nice for SP

 

Arh yes...I should have stipulated that it is only for SP.....thanks Stephane

[Chareos Rantras 0]

dang my CD's broke so I only play it on my laptop where I had it installed. And since my laptop doesn't have widescreen 1680*1050 like my game pc has, I probably won't try it.

 

UNLESS my sister gets the urge again to play it (yes she's loves the game) and decides to buy a new copy .

 

 

cheers!

Chareos Rantras

Edited July 27, 2009 by Chareos Rantras

[myles 2]

I can't believe my eye... simply omg. But sadly mods like this are not allow over battle.net.

[Flooxim 49]

Thanks for this mod! Great find!

 

 

Max

[Flooxim 49]

Bumping this Diablo 2 topic to say that Blizzard announced a ladder reset on March 23rd, and it comes with a new patch (1.13). The patch brings a respec system and lots of other features / bug fixes.

Can't wait to try it.

 

 

Max

[Barristan 14]

Heya,

 

ouch.... a patch... This might make me dig up my old game....

 

Ah well....

 

Greetz

[stubbie 21]

Well I still have the ole D2 installed.

I'm going to be giving the patch a good workout when its released.

[kriv 14]

Well I still have the ole D2 installed.

I'm going to be giving the patch a good workout when its released.

 

 

Same here. If this res thing worked online, I would play more.

[kriv 14]

dang my CD's broke so I only play it on my laptop where I had it installed. And since my laptop doesn't have widescreen 1680*1050 like my game pc has, I probably won't try it.

 

UNLESS my sister gets the urge again to play it (yes she's loves the game) and decides to buy a new copy .

 

 

cheers!

Chareos Rantras

 

If you create a blizzard account you can enter your cd keys in and it will let you download the games you have purchased and play them without the cd.

[Scrappy McSlap 6]

Too bad this doesn't work under OS X. I have Diablo 2 installed on my harddrive still... fantastic game!

[Flooxim 49]

Bumping a little too late to say that the 1.13 patch was released last Tuesday.

 

 

Max

[Barristan 14]

Heya,

 

can anyone post 1.13 patch details? Maybe it is interesting enough to install again

 

Greetz

[Flooxim 49]

Here you go :

 

--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Diablo II Version History

--------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

--------------------------------------------------------------------------

- Patch 1.13c

--------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

A new Mystery has been revealed!

 

- Adventurers of Sanctuary are hereby warned once again, that a new challenge

awaits you. Within Diablo's Bosses, spanning across the world from the

ancient Monastery Catacombs to the Throne of Destruction, is where you'll

find what you seek...

 

 

Major Bugs

 

- Fixed an item dupe bug.

- Video improvements for Intel Mac machines with OS 10.5 or greater.

- Fixed an issue where some players could kill other players while in town

("TPPK").

- Fixed an issue where some players could disconnect other players when

they had too many active states.

- Fixed two issues where players could stack auras in an unintended way.

 

 

Minor Bugs

 

- Uber Mephisto now checks for both Uber Baal and Uber Diablo to be killed

before spawning summoned minions (Before he would only check for Uber Baal).

- The game will no longer stop and then restart the game music after the

window loses and then regains focus.

- Fixed an issue where the game window would minimize when running in

windowed mode when it lost focus.

- Fixed an issue where the game window wouldn't center properly when it

was created.

- Fangskin should now properly drop loot in Hell difficulty.

- Fixed an issue where auras were not re-applied to your mercenary after

it was resurrected.

- Fixed an issue where if you had two items which provided auras to

a mercenary and you unequipped one, the aura from the remaining

item never became active.

- Fixed an issue where the Paladin class runeword 'Principle' wasn't

having all of its stats applied properly.

- Fixed an issue where the Paladin's Charge ability would become locked

out if Holy Shield faded while charging.

- Fixed an issue where the Barbarian's Leap ability could become locked

out if they were hit when they started to leap.

 

 

Specific changes/improvements

 

- Respecialization is now possible! Completing the 'Den of Evil' quest

will now additionally reward 1 free respec which can be saved. Players

who have already completed this quest should receive 1 free respec in

Hell difficulty.

- Increased the drop rate of high runes.

- Support for blit scaling in windowed mode. The game can now be

maximized to the largest 4:3 resolution supported (hooray widescreen users).

- Some rare drop items now have an orange color. I.e. Runes and items

required for Uber Tristam.

- Modified the gold bank limit to be a flat cap not bound by level.

- Removed the requirements to create a hardcore character.

- Greatly reduced the explosion damage dealt by Fire Enchanted monsters.

- Uber Mephisto and Uber Baal's summoned minions no longer give experience.

- Removed Oblivion Knight's Iron Maiden curse.

- Hellfire Torch Firestorm proc rate has been reduced to 5%.

- Users can now toggle the display of text over the Health and Mana

globes by clicking on the bottom area of each orb.

- When creating a single player game, each difficulty button is now bound

to a unique key: Normal 'R', Nightmare 'N', and Hell 'H'.

- The 'Enter Chat' Button in the battle.net waiting room is now

bound to the 'Enter' key.

- Added the windows system buttons to the game window (MIN, MAX, CLOSE).

- Added new command line parameter '-nofixaspect' which allows users to

not fix the aspect ratio to 4:3 when maximizing in windowed mode.

This lets the game 'stretch' to fill your monitor.

- Added support for '-sndbkg' command line switch. This enables sound

in background.

- Added the following aliases for pre-existing command line options,

'-nosound', '-window', and '-windowed'.

 

 

Revised Skill balance for Player Character classes

 

 

Amazon

 

- Immolation Arrow - Increased radius of Explosion effect by 33% and

Immolation effect by 50%.

- Immolation Arrow - Explosion effect damage increased by 20%.

- Immolation Arrow - Increased base duration by 33%.

 

 

Assassin

 

- Dragon Claw - Synergy receives 4% additional damage per point of Claw Mastery.

- Dragon Talon - The bonus to Attack Rating per point has been increased to 35.

- Shadow Master - Increased resistance range per point from 5-80 to 5-90.

- Combo points awarded by combo moves now last 15 seconds, up from 9.

 

 

Barbarian

 

- Whirlwind - Reduced initial mana cost by 50%.

- Masteries - Changed critical strike chance from 0-25 to 0-35.

 

 

Paladin

 

- Blessed Hammer - No longer ignores resistances of undead and demons.

 

 

Druid

 

- Werebear - Damage bonus increased by 15% across all ranks.

- Werebear - Increased health by 25% and armor by 1% per point.

- Shockwave - Synergy from Maul adds 5% damage per point.

 

 

Necromancer

 

- Blood Golem - Removed negative shared life effect (player no longer

loses life when the golem takes damage).

- Corpse Explosion - Increased base damage dealt from 60% - 100%

to 70% - 120% of corpses health.

- Poison Nova - Increased base damage by 15%.

 

 

Sorceress

 

- Firewall - Synergy receives 1% damage per point of Inferno and

4% per point of Warmth.

- Blaze - Synergy receives 1% damage per point of Firewall

and 4% per point of Warmth.

- Hydra - Increased base damage by 15% per rank.

- Hydra - Increased base speed of Hydra projectile.

- Hydra - Reduced cooldown by 25%.

 

About the respec system, it doesn't say that in hell difficulty each act boss has now a chance to drop some kind of essence. If you combine 4 of the same essence in the cube, it will transform into a t-shaped charm which you can use to respec.

This way, high level characters will be able to have more than 1 respec, and the essences might become something valuable for trade.

 

 

Max

[Spunky 16]

Here, some small errors in the text, but no biggie:

 

This patch updates Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction to version 1.13c. Read below for more information on what this patch contains... 

Diablo 2 1.13c Patch Notes 
â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" 

A new Mystery has been revealed! 

- Adventurers of Sanctuary are hereby warned once again, that a new challenge 
awaits you. Within Diablo’s Bosses, spanning across the world from the 
ancient Monastery Catacombs to the Throne of Destruction, is where you’ll 
find what you seek… 

Major Bugs 

- Fixed an item dupe bug. 
- Video improvements for Intel Mac machines with OS 10.5 or greater. 
- Fixed an issue where some players could kill other players while in town 
(“TPPKâ€). 
- Fixed an issue where some players could disconnect other players when 
they had too many active states. 
- Fixed two issues where players could stack auras in an unintended way. 

Minor Bugs 

- Uber Mephisto now checks for both Uber Baal and Uber Diablo to be killed 
before spawning summoned minions (Before he would only check for Uber Baal). 
- The game will no longer stop and then restart the game music after the 
window loses and then regains focus. 
- Fixed an issue where the game window would minimize when running in 
windowed mode when it lost focus. 
- Fixed an issue where the game window wouldn’t center properly when it 
was created. 
- Fangskin should now properly drop loot in Hell difficulty. 
- Fixed an issue where auras were not re-applied to your mercenary after 
it was resurrected. 
- Fixed an issue where if you had two items which provided auras to 
a mercenary and you unequipped one, the aura from the remaining 
item never became active. 
- Fixed an issue where the Paladin class runeword ‘Principle’ wasn’t 
having all of its stats applied properly. 
- Fixed an issue where the Paladin’s Charge ability would become locked 
out if Holy Shield faded while charging. 
- Fixed an issue where the Barbarian’s Leap ability could become locked 
out if they were hit when they started to leap. 

Specific changes/improvements 

- Respecialization is now possible! Completing the ‘Den of Evil’ quest 
will now additionally reward 1 free respec which can be saved. Players 
who have already completed this quest should receive 1 free respec in 
Hell difficulty. 
- Increased the drop rate of high runes. 
- Support for blit scaling in windowed mode. The game can now be 
maximized to the largest 4:3 resolution supported (hooray widescreen users). 
- Some rare drop items now have an orange color. I.e. Runes and items 
required for Uber Tristam. 
- Modified the gold bank limit to be a flat cap not bound by level. 
- Removed the requirements to create a hardcore character. 
- Greatly reduced the explosion damage dealt by Fire Enchanted monsters. 
- Uber Mephisto and Uber Baal’s summoned minions no longer give experience. 
- Removed Oblivion Knight’s Iron Maiden curse. 
- Hellfire Torch Firestorm proc rate has been reduced to 5%. 
- Users can now toggle the display of text over the Health and Mana 
globes by clicking on the bottom area of each orb. 
- When creating a single player game, each difficulty button is now bound 
to a unique key: Normal ‘R’, Nightmare ‘N’, and Hell ‘H’. 
- The ‘Enter Chat’ Button in the battle.net waiting room is now 
bound to the ‘Enter’ key. 
- Added the windows system buttons to the game window (MIN, MAX, CLOSE). 
- Added new command line parameter ‘-nofixaspect’ which allows users to 
not fix the aspect ratio to 4:3 when maximizing in windowed mode. 
This lets the game ’stretch’ to fill your monitor. 
- Added support for ‘-sndbkg’ command line switch. This enables sound 
in background. 
- Added the following aliases for pre-existing command line options, 
‘-nosound’, ‘-window’, and ‘-windowed’. 

Revised Skill balance for Player Character classes 

Amazon 

- Immolation Arrow â€" Increased radius of Explosion effect by 33% and 
Immolation effect by 50%. 
- Immolation Arrow â€" Explosion effect damage increased by 20%. 
- Immolation Arrow â€" Increased base duration by 33%. 

Assassin 

- Dragon Claw â€" Synergy receives 4% additional damage per point of Claw Mastery. 
- Dragon Talon â€" The bonus to Attack Rating per point has been increased to 35. 
- Shadow Master â€" Increased resistance range per point from 5-80 to 5-90. 
- Combo points awarded by combo moves now last 15 seconds, up from 9. 

Barbarian 

- Whirlwind â€" Reduced initial mana cost by 50%. 
- Masteries â€" Changed critical strike chance from 0-25 to 0-35. 

Paladin 

- Blessed Hammer â€" No longer ignores resistances of undead and demons. 

Druid 

- Werebear â€" Damage bonus increased by 15% across all ranks. 
- Werebear â€" Increased health by 25% and armor by 1% per point. 
- Shockwave â€" Synergy from Maul adds 5% damage per point. 

Necromancer 

- Blood Golem â€" Removed negative shared life effect (player no longer 
loses life when the golem takes damage). 
- Corpse Explosion â€" Increased base damage dealt from 60% â€" 100% 
to 70% â€" 120% of corpses health. 
- Poison Nova â€" Increased base damage by 15%. 

Sorceress 

- Firewall â€" Synergy receives 1% damage per point of Inferno and 
4% per point of Warmth. 
- Blaze â€" Synergy receives 1% damage per point of Firewall 
and 4% per point of Warmth. 
- Hydra â€" Increased base damage by 15% per rank. 
- Hydra â€" Increased base speed of Hydra projectile. 
- Hydra â€" Reduced cooldown by 25%. 

 

EDIT: Bah, beaten by Max

Edited March 28, 2010 by Spunky

[stubbie 21]

If someone could please explain why, as a widescreen user, I should be hooraying I would be most grateful......

 

- Support for blit scaling in windowed mode. The game can now be

maximized to the largest 4:3 resolution supported (hooray widescreen users).

 

.......because I can see no option anywhere to increase my resolution past 800x600

[Spunky 16]

Are you trying to change the resolution in-game? if I'm not completely wrong here there should be a exe file in the Diablo 2 folder that let's you change it before going into the game.

 

I'm sure I'm completely off track here, so just ignore this as it has been ages since I had played D2

[Flooxim 49]

If someone could please explain why, as a widescreen user, I should be hooraying I would be most grateful......

 

- Support for blit scaling in windowed mode. The game can now be

maximized to the largest 4:3 resolution supported (hooray widescreen users).

 

.......because I can see no option anywhere to increase my resolution past 800x600

 

I think this is related to the fact that they added the maximize button to the Diablo 2 Window. If you press it, it will scale the window to your resolution (which is pretty ugly here @ 1920x1080).

 

I tried to search about what Spunky said about the file in the Diablo 2 folder, but no luck. I even searched in the registry too, still no luck.

 

 

Max

[Barristan 14]

Heya,

 

ant news about that new 'event' ? Or is that just the respec Essences?

 

Greetz

Edited March 28, 2010 by Barristan

[kriv 14]

Gut when I get hooked to sacred 2 the patch drops. Hope my wife doesn't plan on seeing me much.

[Antitrust 32]

Heya,

 

ant news about that new 'event' ? Or is that just the respec Essences?

 

Greetz

There is no new event, the idiots just copy0pasted the patch notes from the previous patch...

[Spunky 16]

So the only thing that's new is the respec option?