Make sure you have the latest proprietary graphics drivers andwine staging from https://www.winehq.org/ installed
First you need to install Diablo II and Lord of Destruction
Installation with CD:
Put CD1 [INSTALL] in drive
Navigate to your CD drive and execute setup.exe with wine by right clicking it
Choose Install Diablo II, then choose the 3rd option Full Install
Accept the EULA, type in a Name and your 16 character CD-KEY and click OK
Select "C:\Program Files (x86)\Diablo II" as installation directory, uncheck "Create shortcut on desktop" and click OK
Follow the installation process like with windows
When done do the same with the LOD CD
Dont forget to upgrade to full install
You now have a playable version of D2+LOD located at "/home/["your username"]/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Diablo II"
To upgrade to 1.14d start diablo II.exe with wine and log in to battle.net
Installation with downloader from blizzard.com:
Go to https://www.blizzard.com and login to your account, on your account settings page you want to find Diablo II and "download client"
Change language for D2 and LOD to english and click download for Windows
Execute the diablo2 downloader file with wine
Select "C:\Program Files (x86)\Diablo II" as installation directory
When the download is complete click install Diablo II, agree with the EULA and type in a Name and your 26 character CD-KEY from your account settings page and click OK
Choose "C:\Program Files (x86)\Diablo II\" as install directory, uncheck "Create shortcut on desktop" and click OK
Click Back and Exit Installer
Do same process with LOD downloader
You now have a playable version of D2+LOD located at "/home/["your username"]/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Diablo II"
To upgrade to 1.14d start diablo II.exe with wine and log in to battle.net
Now you want to download the MOD installer from https://get.median-xl.com which comes as a ".AppImage" file
Right click your downloaded file, click properties, go to the acces rights tab and check "allow file to be executed as program" and close
You can also do this through the terminal using
$ chmod a+x Subsurface*.AppImage
Doubleclick the downloaded file and click yes
After a while the MOD Launcher comes up and asks for your diablo II directory
Navigate to "/home/["your username"]/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Diablo II" and click OK
In the upper right corner you find the settings
Select Direct3D as Video Mode and make sure the installation folder matches your Diablo II directory
Close the settings and click Install
If you get an Error in the upper red line, click on it, open launcher/error_log.txt
If you read this lines:
DOWNLOAD FILE FAILED: Error: Error: Address http://s3.amazonaws.com/medianxllauncher/MPQ_PATCH.7z is not reachable.
Error: Error: Address http://s3.amazonaws.com/medianxllauncher/MPQ_PATCH.7z is not reachable.
the MOD Launcher is still out of date and you have to download and copy 2 files manually
Download files from
https://get.median-xl.com/launcher/index.php?get=mod
https://get.median-xl.com/launcher/index.php?get=dlls
and extract the files to your diablo II directory.
You shall now be ready to rumble.