Is it possible to play Diablo 3 on Ubuntu?
What should I install to play D3 with good graphics?
How can I get an Nvidia video card to work well with Diablo III?
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Is it possible to play Diablo 3 on Ubuntu?
What should I install to play D3 with good graphics?
How can I get an Nvidia video card to work well with Diablo III?
Best Answer
Yesterday I successfully installed Diablo 3 on my laptop, Asus Zenbook UX32VD. But I think steps that I did can be done on any other computer. My configuration:
This tutorial also works for:
lspci:
I will try to explain what I did.
1. Install last version of PlayOnLinux.
Today it is 4.2.2 (Also tested with 4.2.5)
It can be done by downloading from official site, or by doing this:
Add ppa and install.
2. Download Diablo 3 client from official Blizzard site
3. Install Diablo 3 using PlayOnLinux
Execute
playonlinux
, ClickInstall
button.Search for Diablo 3, then click install.
Then choose
setup file from my computer
, and pick file you downloaded in step 2.Now install Diablo 3 as usual, login to battle.net and download D3 game.
PlayOnLinux will download wine automatically and configure itself.
I don't know why, but I have success with this only in 3-d time. I did same things in step 3. But it crashed 2 times. First time when Diablo 3 client was installed, it loaded but could not connect to battle.net. I just delete everything and did step 3 again
Before going to step 4, try to launch Diablo 3. If it works and you can play but graphics quality low - go to next step.
4. Install and configure bumblebee
Now, after D3 successfully installed you need explain to PlayOnLinux to use your graphic card. In my case it is GeForce GT 620M. What is
bumblebee
?We will use util
primusrun
to run our D3 supporting nvidia card. To install bumblebee and primus do this.64bit: you also need to install the "primus-libs-ia32:i386" package:
To configure bumblebee for you video card check this
5. Check bumblebee
or for 32bit
It should give you more or equal than 120 fps.
As an alternativ you can use
Since primusrun has steady fps in Diablo 3 but still is laggy, I prefer optirun over primusrun.
6. Run D3 using primusrun
After step 3, PlayOnLinux should add Diablo3 launch icon to your Desktop. If it doesn't just create it by yourself in
~/Desktop
folder. Call it "Diablo III.desktop". Open with your editor. It should look like this:Note that I change
Exec
. It was just/usr/share/playonlinux/playonlinux --run "Diablo III" %F
. I addprimusrun
to get best graphics that my video card can provide.7. Resolving problems.
I also have a problem with resolution. Game always started with 800x600 configs. I found configuration file in my home directory.
/$HOME/Diablo III/
there is a fileD3Prefs.txt
, where I put my resolution:Thanks for everyone who did this before, I found everything on the Internet. Here the Links that I use:
UbuntuUpdates - PPA: PlayOnLinux
Running specific games with 'primusrun'
Primus: Better Performance And Less Power Consumption For Bumblebee [Optimus Hybrid Graphics Chipsets] ~ Web Upd8: Ubuntu / Linux blog
Home · Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee Wiki
Configuration · Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee Wiki
PlayOnLinux - Set resolution manualy