Hi All, The following instructions allows one to play Diablo III under either i386 or amd64 FreeBSD 9. Unfortunately actually installing the game does not work due to problems with Agent.exe however once installed (from a Windows instance) the game runs well, with 48 hours reported as error free.
Special thanks to alphachi for solving and testing the below procedure.
Instructions:
1) Install the wine-fbsd64-diablo3[1] package from mediafire[2] (tested using
1.5.4).
2) Choose a directory to have the diablo 3 wine prefix (`export
DIABLO=$HOME/diablo3` or `setenv DIABLO $HOME/diablo3`)
3) Install VC++ 2008 Redistribution (`env WINEPREFIX=$DIABLO sh winetricks
vcrun2008`)[3]
4) Copy an INSTALLED version of diablo 3 to the wine prefix (hint: use
VirtualBox to install the game)
5) Start the game with `env WINEPREFIX=$DIABLO wine Diablo\ III.exe -launch`
[4]
Regards,
[1]
MD5 (wine-1.4.x-freebsd9/wine-fbsd64-diablo3-1.4,1.tbz) =
9d327d7cc384cce7317e7c70245b9427
MD5 (wine-1.5.x-freebsd9/wine-fbsd64-diablo3-1.5.4,1.txz) =
250d424f14fa9670396addaaaed8c43e
[2] http://www.mediafire.com/wine_fbsd64
[3] http://winetricks.org/winetricks
[4] Below is a sample .desktop file for launching diablo 3. Please expand
$DIABLO and fix the "Path" entry
<file name="Diablo III.desktop">
[Desktop Entry]
Comment=Please replace $DIABLO with a full expanded path and fix "Path" entry
Exec=env WINEPREFIX=$DIABLO wine "Diablo III.exe" -launch
Name=Diablo III
Path=$DIABLO/drive_c/path/to/diablo
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
TerminalOptions=
Type=Application
</file>
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