Running Diablo 2 on Windows 10

[Lonestargrizzly]

[mooner760HD]

Emulate an older version of windows? Did you download an ISO or was it through a digital distribution?

[Lonestargrizzly]

Emulate an older version of windows? Did you download an ISO or was it through a digital distribution?

I bought it through the blizzard store

[mooner760HD]

I bought it through the blizzard store

Missed that part. Did you get any error messages or is it just crashing when you try to run it?

[Lonestargrizzly]

Missed that part. Did you get any error messages or is it just crashing when you try to run it?

I can post up the errors in the log when I get off work tonight

[Dragunov]

I'll wait til you post error logs, before commenting.

The Sims 2 is another game that's really tough to get working right (even temporarily) on Win 10.

What I recommend:

For older games, Win10 generally SUX. I have older, WinXP, and Win7 machines for running older games. This was my "fix" for "The Sims 2".

You can try the following:

WinXP service pack 2 compatibility mode.
Run as Administrator.
Run in 2D mode.

This MIGHT help:

https://www.diabloii.net/forums/threads/diablo-2-windows-10-fullscreen.962859/

Good luck.

[Lonestargrizzly]

Missed that part. Did you get any error messages or is it just crashing when you try to run it?

23:03:43.866 imagehlp.dll loaded for better stack crawls.
23:03:44.773 ........DirectSound progress: 0 buffers available is less than min needed 16 buffers for 3d sound
23:03:44.791 ........DirectSound progress: 0 buffers available is less than min needed 16 buffers for 3d sound
23:03:48.536 ***** DirectDraw error: SetDisplayMode failed! - DDERR_UNSUPPORTED (0x80004001)
23:03:48.536 Failed to resize window... this is fatal!

23:03:48.815 ***** UNHANDLED EXCEPTION: ACCESS_VIOLATION (c0000005)
23:03:48.815 Fault address: 00507743 01:00106743 C:\Program Files (x86)\Diablo II\Game.exe
23:03:48.815 eax:00000000 ebx:00000000 ecx:00000000 edx:00000000 esi:0dfc7900
23:03:48.815 edi:005076b0 ebp:00000000 esp:0dfbff4c eip:00507743 flg:00010246
23:03:48.815 cs:0023 ds:002b es:002b ss:002b fs:0053 gs:002b

23:03:51.635 imagehlp.dll loaded for better stack crawls.
23:03:52.480 ........DirectSound progress: 0 buffers available is less than min needed 16 buffers for 3d sound
23:03:52.502 ........DirectSound progress: 0 buffers available is less than min needed 16 buffers for 3d sound
23:03:55.951 ***** DirectDraw error: SetDisplayMode failed! - DDERR_UNSUPPORTED (0x80004001)
23:03:55.951 Failed to resize window... this is fatal!

23: 12:22.990 imagehlp.dll loaded for better stack crawls.
23: 12:23.018 Detecting boards which support Direct3D...
23: 12:23.046 Checking capabilities of Intel(R) HD Graphics 620...
23: 12:23.046 VendorID = 0x00008086, DeviceID = 0x00005916
23: 12:23.375 Supports 32 bit cutscenes.
23: 12:23.375 Couldn't find valid display mode for user interface screens.
23: 12:23.757 Destroyed D3D window.
23: 12:23.757 Found no valid Direct3D devices to use!

23: 12:23.759
Error 1: Diablo II is unable to proceed. Unsupported graphics mode.
---finished error callback---

I quoted all the errors in the log.

[Mute]

This is along the lines that Dragunov recommended, but add the following:

- Windows 98 / ME

or

- Windows XP Service Pack 3

(try both)

4. Tick the box 'Run in 256 colours'
5. Tick the box 'Run in 640 x 480 screen resolution'
6. Tick the box for 'Disable desktop composition'
7. Tick the box for 'Run this program as an administrator'
- Click Apply, Click OK.

[HKmongoose]

[kcheung2]

D2 and D3 definitely can run on Win 10. I bought a laptop just for playing Windows games & it runs fine on that. Mind you, this was a clean install of Win 10.

[mooner760HD]

This is along the lines that Dragunov recommended, but add the following:

- Windows 98 / ME

or

- Windows XP Service Pack 3

(try both)

4. Tick the box 'Run in 256 colours'
5. Tick the box 'Run in 640 x 480 screen resolution'
6. Tick the box for 'Disable desktop composition'
7. Tick the box for 'Run this program as an administrator'
- Click Apply, Click OK.

I also found something that suggested running the program in windowed mode rather than full screen.