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Diablo 2 on Mac OS X

Cowboy-BebopCowboy-Bebop Registered User regular
edited April 2008 in Help / Advice Forum
I bought the Diablo battle chest today and installed it on my MacBook Pro (running OS X 10.4). The installation went fine and since the product was new it even had the OS X installer. The problem is when I start the game. I get to the menu screen and everything goes wonky. The text at the top that reads "Diablo II" moves back and forth and is never centered or aligned. None of the menus actually display and the background doesn't show up properly. I can hear the mouse over sound and clicking noise when you select a menu option yet nothing changes.

I tried installing it on my brother's iMac and had the exact same issue.

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  • NatanekoNataneko Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    for my macbook, I have to play Diablo II in window mode or else it does the same thing you describe

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  • MonoxideMonoxide Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited April 2008
    Are you running "Diablo II (Carbon)" or the other one? You should be using Carbon.

    edit: yes, and windowed is a good idea

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  • Cowboy-BebopCowboy-Bebop Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Ah yes I just figured out that windowed mode works. There's no way to play full screen?

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  • BoomShakeBoomShake The Engineer Columbia, MDRegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Use the Diablo II (Carbon) and configure the video to use software rendering and not OpenGL. That made it work for me.

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  • MahnmutMahnmut Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    BoomShake wrote: »
    Use the Diablo II (Carbon) and configure the video to use software rendering and not OpenGL. That made it work for me.

    This was the solution for me, too.

    Does OSX not have OpenGL or something? o_O

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  • Cowboy-BebopCowboy-Bebop Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Different question. Is there a way to play the original Diablo on OS X?

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  • NatanekoNataneko Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    I searched about that, and so far the result are: without os 9 (classic) you can't, and you absolutely can't when intel-based

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