Installing Diablo II on Leopard w/OS X Native Installer...

Have you tried moving the installer from the downloaded disk image to your desktop? Also having the D2 Install CD mounted before starting the installer seems to help. Other programs that use Quicktime or have Quicktime plug-ins loaded can interfere with the install as D2 runs into problem loading Quicktime if another application such as iTunes or Safari has it in use.

It doesn't seem to be a Quicktime problem. I have a relatively fresh install, 1-2 weeks old, and have removed all QT extras like Flip4mac and Perian. I had no apps open, and I also got the sound only startup from the D2 Installer. I really think that this is a 10.5 issue as the installer hasn't worked at all in my 10.5 systems. I am gonna try and install a 10.4 partition or something to see if that will make it work. If its a 10.5 problem I don't really think there is a fix.

Just found something on another website, lowendmac dot com. Apparently it has to do with disks be formatted as case sensitive journaled instead of just just regular journaled. I am debating wether or not to test this, I have most of the .dmg for all my extra apps and such so I am in a position to make a reformat as painless as possible. Will test this and get back to you all.

Ok did a fresh install with a reformat using Mac OS Extended Journaled (NO case-sensitivity) and it all worked. The native installer works, the games (D2 and LOD) work.

So, for OS X users that get just the sounds of the OSX native installer for Diablo 2 but no screen, the problem is that you formated your boot disk as case-sensitive.
The Solution is to reformat with out case-sensitivity. Will work with other HD that your computer can boot from that are also non case-sensitive like a 2nd internal HD or some models can boot from Firewire drives I believe.

This does not solve the original poster's problem, but one that came up in the thread.

Hi Diablorist,

please tell we where to configure the game to start in windowed-mode instead of fullcreen as I'd really like to use OpenGL.

Thank you!
🙂

Hello, I was reading your post about running Diablo II with leopard using 'OpenGL.' I visited that site however I couldn't determine which "product" or category to search for.

Would this also work for the first Diablo?

Regards,

-Nathan

Press cmd+M to switch between full screen and window.

see i am having problems with it too .. just bought the d2 and LOD battle chest, and purchased the mac book pro, and i keep getting the same error no matter what i do

the error says "this application has quit unexpectedly"

i've tried everything, even calling blizzard and going through their mac support ..

does anyone have any solution ? if so please email me and let me know

much obliged

I also have the same exact problem. Everything installs just fine. However, once I try to launch the application, it crashes. See Here

It doesn't matter if I just install it, or use the native installer. Pre and Post patches, it always crashes. If I try to start holding down the option key, it still crashes. 10.5.2, crashes. 10.5.3 crashes. It's quite frustrating because I want to be my sorceress pwnage on.

Blizzard has officially announced that there is a problem with Starcraft and Diablo 2 on the newer MacBook Pro's:
http://www.battle.net/forums/thread.aspx?FN=support&T=535843&P=1

I've been having the same problems!
I installed it, with patches.
Tired starting it up, but it says it has unexpectedly quit!
I have called Blizzard and sent emails to the mac support.
Can anyone help me?

Problem is, I'm not using the latest MacBook Pro model and it still crashes at launch. So, that's not it. I did a clean install of Leopard on it about 3 weeks ago and I just did a clean install of Diablo II with Lord of Destruction. Then, applied the latest patch to bring it to 1.12 (The patch refers to 1.12a but when I did get info on the application, it still says 1.12). When I launch it, it crashes. Trashed the preference files, still crashes. Press option when launching it still crashes before getting anywhere. This is very frustrating.

Same problems here. Just made a FULL LOD install from CDs using the "Diablo II Installer for OS X" downloaded from the Blizzard site today. Installation went well but game crashes on launch unexpectedly before and after the LOD 1.12a patch was applied (also downloaded from Blizzard site today). I have the 2.4 GHz MBP purchased in September 2007 and not the new 2008 as in the problem reports on the Blizzard forums. Hope there will be a solution soon seeing we'll have to wait for Diable III till 2009/10 as it seems

just wanted to chime in here: i'm having the same issue. installs fine, without errors. patches just fine. game launches and immediately crashes. tried this on my 2.6 macbook pro and my 2.8 8x mac pro, both with the same results. . . . i really hope we find a solution to this: i wanna play diablo 2 on my 30"!

Same problem.

Performed a FULL install of Diablo II (Not the expansion) with the latest OS X installer from Blizzard's site.

Load game, and it instantly crashes with an 'Ignore, Report, Relaunch' Error.

Patched it to 1.12 (Carbon) using the latest patch from Blizzard's site, and I get the same problem.

"Process: Diablo II (Carbon) [13654]
Path: /Applications/Diablo II Folder/Diablo II (Carbon)
Identifier: com.blizzard.Diablo2
Version: 1.12 (1.12)
Code Type: PPC (Translated)
Parent Process: launchd [71]

Date/Time: 2008-06-30 09:19:11.289 +0800
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.3 (9D34)
Report Version: 6

Exception Type: EXC BADACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN PROTECTIONFAILURE at 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 0"

I presume now that Diablo III has been announced that a lot of people are going to try and play Diablo II, so fingers crossed there'll be a fix for this soon.