This computer can run DII.

[Locut0s]

Decided to install DII and LoD ahead of the upcoming DIII release as I've never played LoD despite buying it about a year back. Finished DII years ago of course. I'll create a new character and go through each campaign till I've finished LoD as well. I liked being a necromancer last time. Which is your fav class?

I LOLed at this install screen (have a 5970). See my system specs in my sig for more reasons why this is lol worthy:

Actually this is going to look really shitty as I'm playing this on my 30" DELL LCD. I understand there is a high quality texture mod. Worth it or too buggy?

 

[JSt0rm]

Your computer can't handle the texture mod. Sorry.

 

[Locut0s]

Your computer can't handle the texture mod. Sorry.

:'(

 

[BathroomFeeling]

There was a mod which expanded the size of the map to fit your resolution called "multires". It looked fantastic, not to mention you could target monsters some distance away. However after the "1.13c" patch, the mod no longer worked. You had to downpatch to 1.12 or lower to make it work, which was a bummer. I'm not sure if the mod has been updated since. The blizzard team did however introduce another fit-to-window solution which wasn't as good. Basically it expanded everything to fit the screen. So on a 30" screen, I imagine it'll look like utter shit.

If it were me, I wouldn't bother with the high-q texture mod. I'd want to experience it the way it's meant to be. So I'd go through and complete the storyline, in a relaxed way, and buy time until D3 gets released.

 

[DominionSeraph]

You're lucky it didn't say you couldn't run it and kick you out of the installer with no recourse. I've had games do that before.

Required: 200MHz. You have: 2.6GHz. FAIL
Required: 16MB RAM. You have: 2048MB. FAIL

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[Locut0s]

There was a mod which expanded the size of the map to fit your resolution called "multires". It looked fantastic, not to mention you could target monsters some distance away. However after the "1.13c" patch, the mod no longer worked. You had to downpatch to 1.12 or lower to make it work, which was a bummer. I'm not sure if the mod has been updated since. The blizzard team did however introduce another fit-to-window solution which wasn't as good. Basically it expanded everything to fit the screen. So on a 30" screen, I imagine it'll look like utter shit.

If it were me, I wouldn't bother with the high-q texture mod. I'd want to experience it the way it's meant to be. So I'd go through and complete the storyline, in a relaxed way, and buy time until D3 gets released.

Yeah I'm not going to bother with the texture mod as it looks like it doesn't support the newest patch. I'll just run it in small window mode or whatever.

 

[Locut0s]

You're lucky it didn't say you couldn't run it and kick you out of the installer with no recourse. I've had games do that before.

Required: 200MHz. You have: 2.6GHz. FAIL
Required: 16MB RAM. You have: 2GB. FAIL

:/

Yeah I REALLY want to play the original Thief! I bought the game LONG time ago. I didn't have the patience to finish the game back then but still loved it. Now I really want to go back to playing it. I tried installing it on my old computer a year ago and it took one look at my hardware setup and said fuck no I'm not running on this shit. And that was that. And that hardware was no where near as fast as this, lol.

 

[Locut0s]

You're lucky it didn't say you couldn't run it and kick you out of the installer with no recourse. I've had games do that before.

Required: 200MHz. You have: 2.6GHz. FAIL
Required: 16MB RAM. You have: 2048MB. FAIL

:\

DOS Box is magic for a lot of really old games. It emulates an old x86 system really nicely. Where it fails though is the gray area at the end of the 2D era and the beginning of the 3D era. If you want to play REALLY old classics like Kings Quest or something Dos Box will do it perfectly. If you want to play one of the really early 3D games though you are in for a rough ride. Like Thief above.

 

[PrayForDeath]

Planescape Torment has a widescreen mod that runs nicely. Couldn't they do something similar with Diablo 2?

 

[akahoovy]

Oh D2, trading online for runes made me hate life for the three months I was into it.

Anyway! Favorite classes and builds: Frozen Orb/Meteor Sorceress, Lightning Trap Assassin (frickin awesome), and Frenzy Barbarian.

 

[sash1]

Which is your fav class?

windy druid. made one every ladder season.

man this topic makes me wanna boot up some D2. haven't played in over a year.

 

[Locut0s]

Made a druid. Probably going to make it a wolf centric Druid, and concentrate on one elemental as well. Since I don't plan on playing online much and only want to get through LoDs story I don't suspect it matters all that much how I build him since I will never reach the high levels.

 

[thespyder]

Suggest you really don't want to split your focus (at least your first time through). If you are going Druid Wolf focus, stick with that. Don't throw in anything else.

I am currently playing through as Necro that is Skel focused. After doing some research, I found that I wanted to go 99% Skell, which worked out great. I was killing everything in sight without even striking with my character. The Skells totally dominated...

Until I hit Diablo himself. The Big D slaughtered all of my summonables in ONE attack. 8 Skells (20 points in Summon) and 3 Skell Mages. Even with 5 skill points in Summon Resist (resistance 47%), he still kills them easily out of hand in 1-2 attacks. And Golems go just as quickly.

Oh, and the reason I say don't split focus is, anything less than full on summonable focus, and your summonables die VERY quickly and become useless about the time you face Duriel.

 

[greenhawk]

I remember installing it from a virtual cd drive back a few years back. got the "Your system meets the requirements" Required CD drive, 2x, you have 200x.

a good lol