I sunk an obsessive amount of hours into Diablo and Diablo 2. Now Diablo 3 is newly released and I cracked under the pressure. I don't run Windows - I use Linux. Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin, to be ... precise. I also have an interesting set of criteria for whatever solution I find.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cheako/packages4diabloiii sudo add-apt-repository ppa:oibaf/graphics-drivers sudo apt-get update Now install the updated packages. I also installed S3TC texture compression, which may be illegal where you are. sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get install libtxc-dxtn0 Lastly, we'll need to tweak things a bit when we run wine. First, go download the installer. You can just double-click on it and it will install Diablo 3 and start downloading the gigs of data. Once you get done with the download, or at least to a place where it will let you play the game, stop it. Edit the link to Diablo 3. Run " gedit " and edit Desktop/Diablo III.desktop . Inside there, you will see a line that starts with "Exec ". Add the portion in bold below to force the use of S3TC. Keep in mind that the next thing is all on one really long line.Exec=env WINEPREFIX="/home/fidian/.wine" force_s3tc_enable=true wine C:\\\\windows\\\\command\\\\start.exe /Unix /home/fidian/.wine/dosdevices/c:/users/Public/Desktop/Diablo\\ III.lnk Almost done. Now we just need to disable some security. You have two options: run a command as root whenever you want to run Diablo 3, or you can put it in your /etc/rc.local file and have it run automatically at boot.# Here is the command if you want to run it manually And now you can perhaps play. I can't because the framerate is exceedingly slow, but perhaps that's just one last hurdle to getting the game to play. |