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

You need the new leopard update. It installs fine but i've been having some trouble keeping the game running, constant errors. Any suggestions?

Still wont work after 10.5.5 on my macbook. Dam it!!!

Is their any further development on this that I've missed?

OS X 10.5.5
Mac Pro (first gen)
2 Nvidia 8800 GT's
Diablo II Native Installed
Patched to 1.12a

Start up game, game crashes

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

Can't even start the game.

I was getting the same thing, but langies' solution worked like a charm, just click the apple logo at the top left of your screen, then click "Software Update..." and make sure that the latest os update is selected for installation. Let it do it's thing, then it'll ask you if it can restart your computer, say yes and go get a snack, it could take ~5-10 minutes, when it reboots, log in and just open "/Applications/Diablo II Folder/Diablo II (Carbon)" and you should get the video configuration splash screen, some people say you have to set the renderer to software (instead of openGL) but at first blush (I just loaded it up and played the first quest) I don't seem to be having any problems with the default settings.

Good luck

i have the same ******* issue, have they fixed this yet?

Of course it will work fine on your MacBook Pro azruial, you mac driver can go down to 256 colors. The problem is with Intel and select other graphics cards that Apple has disabled 256 colors on.

Apple haven't released an update to change this so running Apple Update isn't going to do anything.

Diablo II crashes on opening when installed on Leopard. I checked and I also can not choose less than millions of colors for my display.

I used boot camp to install XP on a small partition and use it to play games. Diablo II runs great in XP on my MacBook. I have found that while Leopard is almost flawless when doing anything but gaming, the few games I have tried to play on it have just been horrible. I paid more for Halo and KOTOR for Mac than I would have for the PC versions, and both crashed so often as to make the games unplayable. So I will be booting to XP to game, and back into Leopard to do everything else.

While I wish there was a fix so I could play D2 in Leopard, I am glad I can at least play without buying another computer.

hello. i have the macbook x3100 and the same problem happens when i launch it, it quits unexpectedly

but blizzard has a beta out thats lets u run diablo II but it only runs singler player mode. blizzard is working a patch that also supports battle.net but no clue when it comes out so for now i just play singler player and itll work for everyone with the same problem as me

I have the same issue on my macbook...

Thanks very much. I've been struggling with this sound-only installer problem for quite a long time, and now I can give up wisely since I'm not willing to bother to reinstall my Mac, at least before the arrival of Snow Leopard.

I have the same problem.
I ran the osx installer, and got the latest patch, but when I run the game it makes no effort and says failed to load. I even used the diablo no cd trick
(see here http://www.insidemacgames.com/news/story.php?ID=16662)
and still no luck...

Seems to me like its not even trying, the disk never even spins nor does the fan speed increase
So my guess would be programing bug with desperate need of blizzard patch 112b
anywhoo let me know if anything changes

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Solution

Blizzard Release Diablo 3

oh wait... this will never happen...

Where is that installer? I have Diablo 2 but I can't install it on my Mac as it says it no longer supports Classic... Its annoying as it 1 out of the 2 Mac games I have an both won't install. Myst Revelations just bounces on the dock and won't install and Diablo 2 says its not supported anymore.
So annoyed.

What do i do if my computer is stuck in OpenGL. I have run through the video settings 100 times and asked it to save them but it keeps going back to open GL automatically?

it looks like the problems have been known for about a year now... are there solutions yet??? I'd really like to start playing my game now!

Here's what I've done so far:
1) I just bought the game from BestBuy, so brand new disks.
2) I downloaded and ran the Native OSX Diablo 2 installer, and selected Full Install.
3) I can't run the game, which "quits unexpectedly"
4) I downloaded the patch from Blizzard's site, since they weren't clear about whether the patch was needed, even if I downloaded the fresh Native OSX Diablo 2 Installer.
5) I still can't run the game, which "quits unexpectedly"

I'm using OSX 10.5.7 on a macbook intel core 2 duo, Intel GMA X3100 GPU. This computer was bought in September, so it's pretty new...

Is it true that the problem is the unavailability of 256 colors?
I am (so far) unwilling to mess with my graphics drivers to get this to work.

Am I supposed to be able to fiddle with some kind of "Options Menu"? Diablo 2 quits without anything happening... no menu...

Help!!!