Solved I want fullscreen

Hello!
Is there any way to play in fullscreen mode? It's bad enough that it's an old game with max resolution 800x600, playing in windowed mode on top of that is just terrible.
Note that I'm running windows 7 and had to add -w to the launcher to fix the access violation exception error (and set .exe to compatibility win xp sp2).
Any help?

Edit:
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Wrapper above fixes it. Download and install it following the instructions and you should be good.

 

Unfortunately, there is no way to play in full screen. Although the game is 16 years old It was never designed for such high resolutions as we use now on our modern PC's or Laptops

Maybe with some mods or pluggy but this option is only for single player

 

Sadly it isn't MH related. I've been getting them before I had any MH on (using sting mh).
I've tried restarting my laptop and reinstalling the game altogether, testing at every checkpoint: vanilla d2, then with LoD, then with realm installer. Every time it wouldn't start (unhandled error: access violation exception) unless I started in windowed mode. Then it would work fine.
Note that I've tried all that with and without compatibility mode (xp sp2, xp sp3, win7), with and without administrator rights. Basically, I've tried every combination I could think of, just to be sure and thorough (and maybe a little paranoid lawl). The only fix is running in windowed mode. And it's as ugly as it is annoying, I keep clicking outside the window, resulting in random deaths. Certainly no HC for me...
And It's a shame really, I remember playing the same game on the same windows 7 version on my desktop, which wasn't that old really, and everything worked just fine. Sure it was running in 800x600 on a 1650x1050 monitor, but at least it was fullscreen, so I couldn't complain about such an old game.
That being said, it all points to either a GPU problem or a screen resolution problem.

 

Only with different MH mayby can you login in fullscreen .. Sting maphack you need -w mode..

 

I just said that no MH was on when I tried all of the above, so it's not sting mh that forces game violation exception error.

 

You have two options:
- Using "-w -nofixaspect" (game will open windowed, but you can maximise it and Diablo 2 will stretch to your desktop resolution),
- Using 3dfx to OpenGL wrapper (link to download provided here: http://www.svenswrapper.de/english/downloads.html ), game will start in full screen.

String's Maphack works well in wrapper fullscreen mode, checked it by myself. Normal fullscreen is not working, because newer Windows versions don't have proper support to DirectDraw (old 2d render library).

If you have any questions about wrapper, ask them here, I will help you.

 

The wrapper fixed it. I still get occasional crashes, but considering the circumstances, I won't complain.
Thank you dalmadorm!
I'll edit the OP to include your fix. I believe this should get sticky, there are loads of people out there having this problem (and a good amount quitting because of it) and this might be really helpful for solving the problem quickly and easily.

 

Glad that I could help.

To decrease crash rate in fullscreen, open "glide-init.exe" and use settings from my screenshots:
- in "settings" tab:

Screenshot

(you can turn off "keep aspect ratio" and turn on "desktopresolution" to make game window fit perfectly to your resolution, but it sometimes makes game unstable and increases crash chance)

- in "render" tab:

Screenshot

And, of course, don't use Alt+Tab. It often kills this game. If you are using Alt+Tab often, you should play in window mode.

 

Just for info: I was playing both fullscreen and windowed (now windowed) and I've recently tried running fullscreen - it's working like a charm =)
For a long time I'm using Glide Wrapper. The only thing that you should configure all glide parameters to get good fps on your video card.