Do NOT attempt to play Battle.Net this way. You risk a ban!

Make sure you download Diablo II and Diablo II Lord of Destruction (in English) and install both before proceeding: 1. Download the Path of Diablo Launcher installation file linked below. Select your Diablo II installation folder before clicking next. This step is crucial. Diablo's back-and he's not happy! The Lord of Darkness returns to enslave humanity in Blizzard's hot action/RPG sequel. Second Hell-ping. Because the original Diablo-a graphically rich, extremely addictive hybrid of hack-and-slash action and fantasy RPG elements-was such a massive hit, Blizzard (the game's developers) won't be meddling with the formula too much for the sequel. Diablo Patch v1.09. This is the latest v1.09 patch for Diablo, fixing some Battle.net issues and some other gameplay problems. Fixed some Battle.net issues. Reverted a change made in 1.08 that, while correctly calculated distance, caused unintended gameplay issues.

This hack requires you to be running Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction (not classic!) on patch 1.12a.
Connecting to Battle.net will update your client to 1.13 which is incompatible with D2MultiRes at this time.

Download a mod, D2MultiRes.

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Extract it to your game directory, and launch using D2MultiResGame.exe. Once you start a game, there will be a new “resolution” option in the video options menu. Select it, and resolutions above 800×600 will be available.

The readme warns that you may get bad graphics glitches in Direct3D mode. I did, myself. Refer to additional screenshots. But when I switched to DirectDraw 2D mode, it worked just fine. You can set this by running D2VidTst.exe. Sadly, DirectDraw 2D disables parallax scrolling and other visual effects.

Lacking Direct3D mode is a pretty big one. But everything else seems fine.

Side-screens like inventory retain their original size, but take up half the screen with a tiled background (they originally took up half a 640×480 screen without needing any tiled background).

The HUD keeps its original size, with the life/mana spheres anchored to the corners, and the stamina and potions anchored to the bottom-center. And the map is pixel based.

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FMVs run at 640×480, but are hard-letterboxed to a theatrical 2.20:1. This means windowboxing on wide monitors.