Looks like you can't even download the Battle.net client for Linux now (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by catlover@sh.itjust.works to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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The button is faded out for me: https://download.battle.net/en-us/desktop

But as soon as I change my user agent suddenly it works 🤔 However starting it with wine gives an error that it can't connect to the server. No more blizzard games I guess

With a previously installed client I was able to buy and download Diablo II: Ressurected, but after starting it it immediately stated that my setup was to outdated to run this game. I highly doubt that, since I have more than the minimum requirements.

I found out that you have to fool the game to make it start: https://forums.lutris.net/t/solved-diablo-ii-resurrected-fails-to-start-with-failed-to-initialize-graphics-device-error/13878/3

Problem was with ingame GPU and driver version detection

The lutris battle.net installer however did not work, and I didn't have the mood to debug it.

Not so surprising, but they don't support linux: https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/d2r/t/failed-to-initialize-graphics-device/5896/67

Note: Linux, bootcamp, or running the game in a virtual OS is not supported

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[-] ulu_mulu@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I too had the "graphics too old" error on WoW out of nowhere a couple of weeks ago, after playing it on Linux just fine for years, no idea what changed on their part. Blizzard never supported Linux AFAIK but their games usually work nonetheless.

My PC was really too old tho, almost 10 years, it still worked fine but graphics drivers weren't update anymore and that created a lot of problems in different games unfortunately, not only WoW (BG3 for example was full of graphics bugs - pretty unplayable, even if the PC could run it at medium settings).

I was already planning on building a new one and now it's done, just reinstalled WoW with Lutris and it works, I used the battle.net script here: https://lutris.net/games/world-of-warcraft/.

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