Comments on: Installing Diablo 2 on an intel Mac

By: Caue Rego

Caue Rego — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 11:15:24 +0000

I’m not sure for how long it’s been there, but for the past month or 2 (which is still lot newer than the last comment here) Diablo 2 is widely available to download on b.net, if you’ve got the CD-KEY.

I just went there, registered myself, download the game, and played it with no major issues ( tho some very minor issues do exist, if you care to read http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=9637195&posted=1#post9637195 )

There’s no need to go to that FTP, and no need at all for CDs. But if you don’t have the CDs, or the big files somewhere, it will be some 1 or 2 GB to download, and that’s a lot of bytes. Should take at least 1 hour for most internet connections, basing that most are about 500kbps to 2mbps ones.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:45:44 +0000

Update:

I managed to find the Native Install after much searching (below). The link is nowhere on blizzard’s site.

http://ftp.blizzard.com/pub/diablo2/patches/Mac/Diablo_II_Installer.dmg

If you’re running OS 10.x.x, just download this file (25mb) and run it with the 1st Diablo II cd in the drive. Select full install. It will ask you to change CDs as it installs the game. Then run the game and select multiplayer and connect to battle.net to download the patch automatically. Easy as pie!

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:30:21 +0000

Blizzard have removed the native installer for Diablo II from their site. All their tech support pages direct to instructions regarding how to download the full os x-compatible game via battle.net once you’re entered in your CD-key. The native installer is also not available in the blizzard online store (I have checked). I do not want to download the game via battle.net because it is over 1Gb and in the country in which I reside it would be very expensive to download that much data. I have emailed Blizzard tech support, but have not had a response as of yet.

Does anyone know of a site which hosts the Native Install for Diablo II plus Diablo II Expansion? I’m running OS 10.5.8 on an intel core 2 duo macbook pro.

By: Sandra

Sandra — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:27:11 +0000

I also tried to install Diabolo on my INtel but it just doesn’t work. I tried all the patch ups but then it just won’t read the CDs no more. I cleaned the CD drive about a hundred times now but it always ejects the CDs right after I put them in. So I can not even install it. I tried to install it on my sisters mac (which isn’t an intel) and to copy it on my computer. But again I need the CD. What can I do?? Any suggestions?

By: Heidi

Heidi — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:52:22 +0000

Well, if you have an NVIDIA card in your mb, you’ll indeed need to wait till Apple does something about the display driver.
Maybe some consolation, they say D3 will come out this year … that’ll probably solve the problem + embark us on a whole new adventure. There’s always a light at the end of the tunnel

By: erimtnias

erimtnias — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:23:53 +0000

I have tried virtually EVERYTHING to try and get Diablo 2 to play, and quite frankly I am fed up. I have visited every website, downloaded every patch, followed instructions to the Tee, and every attempt gets my hopes up only to smash them to pieces. This is the most difficult installation of a game in history, and for a game which the minimum requirements are pathetic. I would hope that Mac would find a solution, and yet here I am………ranting here.

By: Heidi

Heidi — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:50:29 +0000

Hi,
Do you have a mb or mbp with an NVIDIA card in it?
Like mentioned in one of the comments above:

“Iâ€™ve been looking into it. seems the problem is macbooks cards

â€œThe problem is that Apple disabled 256 color modes for Nvidia cards in the latest updates to Leopard. And Diablo II? Well, it runs is 256 colors, so itâ€™ll crash immediately on startup. Itâ€™s a simple fix, but itâ€™s Appleâ€™s problem, unfortunately. They need to re-enable 256 color support in their Nvidia display driversâ€”

I still have an older mb, no nvidia card in it yet.

By: Flornholio

Flornholio — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:42:39 +0000

I have the same problem as Snuggles, the program always “quits unexpectedly” whenever I try to run it.

By: Snuggles

Snuggles — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 04:33:10 +0000

D/ld both of them and I still get the same error. D2lod starts to bounce for a second then says it has an odd error.

By: Heidi

Heidi — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 13:11:09 +0000

Hi Carrie,
thnx a lot for that info!