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Diablo II still not properly compatible with Intel Macs, might never be.

Submitted by on March 15, 2008 – 1:15 pm7 Comments

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Seeing as how it originally appeared more than eight years ago or so, it’s probably not too reasonable for me to complain too loudly about the fact that I can’t properly play my copy of Diablo II on my new iMac. It turns out the OpenGL functionality in the game falls apart when run on an Intel Mac, and Blizzard’s word on it is simply to play it in software rendering mode, which leads me to believe they have no plans to resolve the issue. The problem with that is it makes a dated game look even worse, removing all the nice 3D effects like perspective. This is a game I’ve gone back to again and again, playing all the way through, and I have a small army of powerful characters I’ve built up, but now I suppose all that draws to a close unless I want to settle. Which I don’t.

With no sign of Diablo III on the horizon though, what else is there?

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  • Paul Munn

    Unfortunately for gaming on a computer you must pray at the unholy altar known as Windows. The XP altar is older but works great. The Vista altar…not so much.

    Either that or a proven, supported MMO.

  • http://www.eklipse.net Mike Koss

    Solution? Darwine! The Wine port for OSX Intel Macs. I’ve been playing Diablo 2, including the expansions, on Linux with Wine for quite some time with no problems. You should have the same luck as well (hopefully).

  • http://www.aeropause.com Shane Whitehouse

    Darwine? What is that?

    I’ve got VMWare on my intel mac with XP and Vista..havent tried any PC games on it yet though

  • UberDuder

    I wish the Mac was more popular for mainstream games…it probabl wouldn’t crash as much.

  • http://www.froglord.com/forums Goose

    Wine is a Windows emulation layer that was made for Linux, so that Windows programs can run in Linux without having to completely port the program to the new OS. Darwine is a version of Wine made to run against the core of OSX (named Darwin). Moving Wine between Linux and OSX was probably not too difficult, because both are unix-based operating systems.

    So, download/install Darwine and monkey with that, and you should be back into Diablo II in no time.

    http://darwine.sourceforge.net/download.php

    I’m assuming Hellgate: London (which might as well be Diablo III) hasn’t made its way Mac-side in any way yet?

  • http://www.blizzard.com tigerclaw

    Hello -

    Blizzard is aware of the issue running the OS X version of Diablo II on an Intel Mac in OpenGL mode, and a fix for this issue is already in internal testing. Our hope is to provide this in the next patch update to Diablo II, allowing OpenGL mode to work correctly once again on Intel Mac.

  • http://www.aeropause.com Stephen Munn

    Darwine does not seem able to provide an OpenGL solution. Diablo II runs on my machine normally, I just can’t use the 3D effects.