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

I am not exactly sure why, but I downloaded the installer from Blizzard and followed the procedures, and _*it all works flawlessly*_ on my MacBook Pro bought April '08 running OS X 10.5.7. Hope this means a fix has been made from Apple or from Blizzard and that it's not my particular setup.

Thanks for confirming that the problem is specific to my (or my class of) laptops.

Can you check something for me? When you look under Display options for the number of colors, does it give you the choice of 256 colors? Mine only gives me the choice of Millions, and someone said that this restriction was recently added to MacBook Non-Pros.


And by the way, it works "just fine" on Windows XP through Bootcamp. By "just fine" I'm referring to the fact that I'm addicted to it.

A heap of posters seems to forget about reading the rest of this forum before they post.

You have a MacBook Pro, it doesn't effect you cmrosenb.

I figured out (part) of the problem... it's really strange to me that I didn't read about this "special patch" in more places, like here, but I guess people have been asking these questions on 50 different forums for about a year now, and the issues were solved on only some of them.

Basically, after patching using Blizzard's patch, you have to download another patch here:
http://www.macgamefiles.com/detail.php?item=20233
titled "BETA: Diablo II - X3100 graphics update 1.12" dated Nov08 (whereas Blizzard's current patch is 1.12 from ~ Jun08). I don't understand why this patch isn't referenced on blizzard.com, so it looks like we have to wait for 1.13 for everything (hopefully) to be fixed.

So after installing the BETA patch, now you get a special options menu when you run the new executable, which allows you to select a few video options. I was able to get it to run if I selected Software, or if I selected OpenGL *and also* selected millions of colors. OpenGL + thousands of colors didn't work (it just gave me a black screen, which I couldn't escape until I pressed "return" to get out of it).

The only remaining issue is that this BETA patch does not allow you to connect to battle.net.

Nice one quantamos, ill be sure to give it a try after work.

Ok, so I think I broke my brand new iMac and I'm really sad right now! I went to install the 256 downgrade and now all it says is:
YOU NEED TO RESTART YOUR COMPUTER yadda yadda yadda in multiple languages!

How can I fix this please? Anyone?

Thanks!

TDHS

I wouldn't even bother trying to fix it, your OS will never be the same in my opinion.

Chuck the MacOSX rebuild disk in and re-install. Make sure you select to archive your old data though!

Then use the diablo fix that was posted above, ive tested it and it works fine.