I have a long weekend and I have gotten overly annoyed with playing Demon’s Souls and bored with Borderlands, so I decided to download the classic Diablo II again (gotta love battle.net game management!)
Diablo is still pretty fun, but very ugly in its archaic 800x600 resolution and I figured there must be a way to get the game running at a decent resolution.
The people over at Widescreen Gaming have made a loader for Diablo II to allow it to support many different resolutions- such as the 1440x900 (the native resolution on my laptop):
Best part about this mod is that it does not modify the original files- rather it has an alternative ‘D2MultiRes’ executable that is used to load the game.
It also appears they have worked out a method for using modern resolutions for StarCraft and WarCraft III- but I haven’t had a chance to try these out yet…
I took a look around for a World of WarCraft triple head monitor patch, but looks like I may just need to upgrade to a Radeon 5890 with eyefinity.
Update- beyond 1440 x 900:
I also tried it out on my desktop. At 1600x1050 it still looks pretty good:
…but when I took it up to 1920x1200 there was some strange artifacts from the textures:
The issues are much more pronounced in the town:
There are options for settings at 2560x1600.
Now this one is what I've been looking for. Would be giving you credits on the way how you deliver this great insight. Such an interesting story. mdma
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