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Problems with Diablo 1 via GoG (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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I recently bought Diablo 1 via GoG and wanted to install it on my Dell Latitude for couch sessions. I installed it via Heroic and everything seemed fine, but after the Blizzard splash, the game stays black. Sometimes, when I tab out, some menu texts appear in the tab switcher thumbnail, but thats about it. I fumbled around with the graphics settings in the pre-game settings window (which is really tiny) and tries window mode, different resolutions etc. but nothing changed.

It feels a bit like a "not good enough graphics card" but... well, its Diablo 1...

Is there something I can do, or try, to make D1 playable?

edit: DevilutionX did it amd it was a breeze. Ty all.

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[–] 8 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

is the game configured to use wine or proton? which version?

if I'm not mistaken, the game uses ddraw instead of d3d, so dxvk probably doesn't help here.

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2082 - it seems like this is a fairly long standing issue. Though, apparently if you can blindly navigate through the menus, the game should work otherwise? Hardly ideal, though.

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2082#c181 - the later comments on the thread seem to have some solutions to get the game working "more properly"

edit: though, as the other comments have pointed out, devilutionx is probably the way to go. TIL about it as well.

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