Diablo II • Median XL • Launcher

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• Simple Backup & Restore
• Custom Proton (64 Bit) build will download by script
• Download latest Median XL patch (incl. notification on new updates)
• Median XL Version Management
• Import/Export of savegames
• D2 Stats included (will download by script)
• Sven's Glide wrapper included
• Direct Draw cnc-ddraw supported
• Diablo II 1.13c files to work with Median XL included
• Updater (incl. notification on new updates)
• Supports the execution of EXE files within the wine prefix
• Configurable (see Documentation)
• 100% GUI

You need the Diablo II installation files for the script to work! (You will be asked for the location in the script)

• Install from AUR
  • aur/d2launcher

• Download & Extract: d2launcher.tar.gz
• Install Dependencies
  • sudo apt install wine zenity curl p7zip-full unrar jq wmctrl fuse2 xdelta3
• Run
  • ./d2launcher

• Download & Extract: d2launcher.tar.gz
• Install Dependencies
  • sudo apt install wine zenity curl p7zip-full unrar jq wmctrl fuse2 ruby-notify xdelta3
• Run
  • ./d2launcher

You can override the script properties in the configuration settings (Settings > Edit Configuration). These settings can be edited manually in ~/.d2launcher/d2launcher.conf.

All files are located here: ~/.d2launcher. Simply copy & paste to another system. Feel free to move your Diablo II installation dir to ~/.d2launcher/bin/diablo2 to backup all files together.

The logging file is ~/.d2launcher/d2launcher.log and is not rotated.

d2_dir="$HOME/.d2launcher/bin/diablo2"
d2_exe="Diablo II.exe"
d2_args="-ddraw"
wine_init="gamemoderun"
d2_stats_tray="true"
update_check="true"
mxl_update_check="true"
gui_width="420"
gui_height="320"

wine_native_url="https://github.com/Kron4ek/Wine-Builds/releases/download/6.3-7-proton/wine-6.3-7-proton-amd64.tar.xz"
d2_stats_url="https://github.com/Kyromyr/D2Stats/releases/download/3.11.4/D2Stats-3.11.4.rar"
d2_sigma_loader_url="https://github.com/SyndromeDayna/diablo-2-median-xl-sigma-loader/releases/download/3/sigma-loader.exe"

Note: If you change the URLs, you have to force the regarding update/install: Update Manger > Force Proton Update/Force D2Stats Update

If you use Wine you have to set wine_user="$USER" otherwise for Proton set to wine_user="steamuser"

wine_default="/path/to/your/custom/wine"
wineprefix="$HOME/my/custom/wine_prefix"
wine_user="steamuser"

gui_width="360"
gui_height="280"
gui_font="UbuntuMono Nerd Font"
gui_color="#eeeeee"
gui_size="9"
gui_dialog_width="280"
gui_dialog_height="140"
gui_dialog_font="UbuntuMono Nerd Font"
gui_dialog_color="#aaaaaa"
gui_dialog_size="9"

It's nessesary to start D2Stats (Statistics) in d2launcher first, before starting Diablo II. Because d2launcher will check every start of Diablo II (using pgrep) if D2Stats is running. In this case, d2launcher starts Diablo II automatically with sigma-loader.

Thanks to @GnomeBeans

1. Download latest cnc-ddraw.zip
2. Unzip the downloaded cnc-ddraw.zip and drop the content into diablo 2 install dir (same as your d2_dir property).
3. Goto Settings > Wine Settings > Library and override/add ddraw (set DLL load strategy to: native then built in).
4. Change d2_args property in Settings > Edit Configuration from -3dfx to -ddraw
5. Optimize prefered settings: Settings > Direct Draw Settings (optional)
6. Run Diablo II

Install the gamemode package in your system and add this property in Settings > Edit Configuration:

wine_init="gamemoderun"

Goto Settings > Edit Configuration and modify d2_args property:

Enable Glide wrapper       | -3dfx
Enable Direct Draw         | -ddraw
Window mode                | -w
Skip to Median XL Login    | -skiptobnet
No sound                   | -ns

Note: Add multiple arguments with -ddraw -skiptobnet ...

Change in Settings > Glide Wrapper Settings (optional)

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Glide Wrapper Settings                                 │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
☐          window mode
☑          capture mouse
☐          keep aspect ratio
☐          vertical synchronization (VSYNC)
no         fps-limit
no         static size
☐          window extras
auto       refreshrate
☑          desktopresolution

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Glide Wrapper Renderer                                 │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
32 MB      texture-memory
1024x1024  buffer-texture-size
☑          32 bit rendering
☑          texture for videos
☑          bilinear filtering
☑          supersampling
☑          shader-gamma
☐          no gamma
☑          keep desktop composition

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Glide Wrapper Extensions                               │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
☑          GL_EXT_vertex_array
☑          GL_ATI_fragment_shader
☑          GL_ARB_fragment_program
☑          GL_EXT_paletted_texture
☑          GL_EXT_shared_texture_palette
☑          GL_EXT_packed_pixels
☑          GL_EXT_texture_env_combine
☑          WGL_EXT_swap_control
☑          WGL_ARB_render_texture

Many thanks to these projects:

• https://median-xl.com
• https://github.com/Kron4ek/Wine-Builds/
• https://github.com/Kyromyr/D2Stats
• https://github.com/SyndromeDayna/diablo-2-median-xl-sigma-loader
• https://github.com/synthagency/icons-flat-osx
• http://www.svenswrapper.de
• https://github.com/FunkyFr3sh/cnc-ddraw