[SOLVED] Diablo II and Windows 10

[Infyrin]

Hello, first time user here with a not so first time problem to issue here.

I love Diablo II and I've been wanting to play it on Windows 10. I've gotten it to work on Windows 10, patched it to 1.14d which is the latest and seemingly final patch Blizzard issued for the game to date. I once had it's sound working a couple years ago, but I hadn't figured out how I accomplished this. Right now, it's got no sound. I've done a few things to it that I thought would troubleshoot but to no avail, here's an exhaustive list of those things;

• Verified that my sound worked.
• Disabled any other sound device I thought would interfere with the main sound (I have Realtek) meaning I've disabled NVIDIA Sound (no point having it), disabled my Dell monitor's HD sound (never use it), disabled lots of ports in the back of the motherboard because I'm not going to use them, ever. It's only the rear green port that's enabled, that's it.
• Compatibility Mode with Windows 10. Compatibility Mode in all years that I've used Windows, is more misses than hits. I don't typically trust it because the program will still not run under any circumstance. Therefore, I don't go here but it's a base covered.
• Unchecked the box where in Sound Settings, for apps to take exclusive control of my sound driver. Checked it back when it didn't work.
• Downloaded dsound.dll and extracted it to the Diablo II folder. I know I have dsound already in the Windows system, but I figured a different version and maybe it might work? Nope.
• Tried registering that DLL file. This actually didn't work and it made me go on a side quest to have Windows find corrupted files and fix them with DSIM.exe.
• Reinstalled/Uninstalled
• Tinkered with it's sound in the volume mixer
• Made sure it wasn't muted
• Made sure it's volume in-game was leveled
• Used -sndbkg in the shortcut target bar

At this point, I'm not sure. I'm about out of ideas besides throwing it into a virtual box, but I'm not that kind of user who likes VirtualBoxes or Virtualization. I know this game can infact run without going there. I just forgot how.

Any ideas? Thanks.

For the sake of System info

I am on Windows 10 Build 18363 Home

 

[delaro]

I gave up and just run Median XL. Median basically reinvented the game and has a pretty active community that supports its project. The US servers are probably not as populated as Bliz but the quality of life and added content makes up for it.

 

[Infyrin]

I gave up and just run Median XL. Median basically reinvented the game and has a pretty active community that supports its project. The US servers are probably not as populated as Bliz but the quality of life and added content makes up for it.

I've just installed Median XL and obviously it's working like a charm. I guess this will just have to do. It's a shame that Blizzard really hasn't gone out of their way to make one of their most successful games able to be ran on modern OSes. They do it for Starcraft. They do it for WoW (of course). Diablo II? Naaaaahhh! And they shoved Diablo 1 off to GOG to let them retool that game to work. Mind as well push Diablo II the same direction at this rate instead of just charging people $20 for a game that may not work very well on their modern machines. Disrespectful not to.

Thanks anyways.

 

[delaro]

DIABLO 2' REMASTER RUMOR "RESURRECTED" BY SUSPICIOUS NEW LEAKS

The issue with both D1 and D2 is a remaster to render to 1080p+ requires a complete rewrite of the AI and engine overhaul 😕 On the $$$$ side it just isn't worth it when they could push out new games. Median XL is a step in the right direction and when Bliz releases the DRM lock I'm sure others will pick up the task of a proper AI fix for an upscale.