Starting up Diablo II LOD again after a decade. Would appreciate some answers to questions and some tips!

Nostalgia really hit me hard after starting Diablo II with my brother again, but seems like amnesia hit me harder. Here are a few questions:

(I might do a lot of comparisons to Path of Exile as I'm more recently familar with that.)

• I'm starting up an MF char like usual. I'm thinking of a lightning sorceress, any well-known site that I can search up builds in?

• I can't even remember if I can toggle the alt key so items stay highlighted. Is there a filter system for item drops like the Neversink filter for Path of Exile? If so, where can I download it?

• Ch 9200 usb driver windows 7. I briefly remember MapHack and the importance of it. Is this still widely used? If so, where can I download a trust-worthy version of MapHack?

• There are so many bots. Is there a way I can ignore these whispers from bots and people joining my room to spam websites?

• Any youtube video recommendations for getting through the game faster, easier etc?

• Any tips or useful websites?

• If there are any other mods other than MapHack or a item filter, please let me know!

If any other people are on a nostalgia trip and recently came back to Diablo II, damn was this game past it's time! Thanks in advance for your answers.

HD mod and Maphack, new release

For the newcomers, here, we released 3 months ago a vanilla version of the HD mod found on resurgence and developped by Mir Drualga and Planqi. Not only this enables two new screen resolutions that are better suited for modern computer screen ratios (1344x700 and 1068x600) but it also handles Maphack injection as one launch the client.

In a nutshell, this uses a modified D2Win.dll file that is used by the game (there is a different one for each version of the client, likely 1.13c or 1.13d). This dll will in turn load another completely new file D2Template.dll that takes care of the rest : it will load D2HD.dll (the HD mod) and BH.dll (the maphack). It is possible to disable either functionality by removing/renaming the corresponding dll or reverting the intial D2Win.dll to completely disable all this thing.

Installation should be simple (more details in first release's post) : Download everything that is there and copy it in your Diablo 2 root folder (where game.exe and diablo II.exe should be). Note that you might want to backup whatever file this would overwrite first. The C++ 2013 redistribuables should no longer be needed but windows users will still need to add DEP exceptions both for game.exe and diablo II.exe and restart computer. If you are playing on v1.13d, use this D2Win.dll instead. Let us know if you experience any issue and we'll be happy to assist you. Please read the first release post, there are many things that were addressed there.

This version fixed most if not all of the known bugs, most notably

• Lag, this should be more stable. I personally experience a small cpu peak as I start multiple clients but none of the reported Chaos Sanctuary nonesense before.

• Crash/bug after first completing an act and playing cinematics. This is gone !

• Crash when cycling resolutions. This is much better, just wait 2-3 seconds between each resolution set and you should be good.

• Low fps count. As far as I could experience, this has got better as well but this single issue can be more complex and not uniquely related to the HD mod ..

• Crash when first picking a HD resolution, I still have this one occur randomly, but heh I guess it's just one time per install ..

The above archive also contains the new maphack as well as a basic configuration file (that does almost nothing : shortens names, highlight runes and ignore inferior/useless potions). You can simply edit this file to keep your previous advanced item display configurations. Note that there are a few example lines there and comments that deserve consideration.

Planqi ported most if not all missing implementations that were left in Loli BH (missing filters, marking LK superchests, ..) and should be more or less functionally equivalent now. For this reason it will now be the only officially supported BH in order to simplify troubleshooting and installation for the new players. You are still free to use whatever (allowed) version of maphack that you want and to develop new features (especially if based on Planqi BH). Note that only Planqi BH has full compatibility with the HD auto-injection and that other maphack should be injected using the old (injector.exe) method.

I will stop here this already too long of a post and see you in discord if you have any problem with installing/using these new toys !

I have been reported that some of the uploaded files were wrong, this should be fixed now. Will try later to get final confirmation. Sorry about the confusion.

Windows users should run this with -w in target line, this fixes a lot of other problems. The only way to get full screen is to use glide (enable windowed option so you can toggle full screen with alt+enter). DON'T MAXIMIZE USING TITLEBAR ! Windows extra in glide is also good there to resize window.

It is recommended that you only use HD on your main window, as it can be resource demanding. Use a separate install for the extra boxes so you don't need to change resolution every game.

Mir Drualga pointed that there is still lag every game one changes the resolution and this cannot be fixed without a custom patch on client side. We are pretty much stuck with this minor annoyance. The lag is only if you stay in the same game as a resolution change and goes away next game/rejoin.