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Diablo II Patch for Mac OS X Released

Posted by pudge on from the now-if-i-could-just-have-usb-printer-sharing dept.

soquelraj writes "Blizzard has released the long awaited patch they promised three months ago at MacWorld SF 2002 to allow Diablo II and Diablo II LoD to run native on Mac OS X. This was the last reason I was booting into Mac OS 9 for any reason (I could never stand not having direct access to my video hardware running the game via Classic). The performance (at least on the first quick spin I took tonight after downloading) under OpenGL looks to be much smoother than anything previous -- but regardless, this makes my Mac OS X experience complete."

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  1. Diablo for Mac is SLOW by dangil · · Score: 2, Informative

    I dont know about you, but for me, diablo 2 is unplayable on a mac..

    at least with a geforce 2mx graphics card....

    I think it has something to do with Nvidia horrible macos drivers..

    but a underpowered (even a celeron 300) PC can play diablo2 much better then my 733 G4 can...

    quake3, on the other hand, runs like a charm... so its not a matter of hardware...

    please NVIDIA. fix MacOS drivers (both X an 9)
    please BLIZZZZZARD. make Nvidia fix those drivers!

    1. Re:Diablo for Mac is SLOW by CottonEyedJoe · · Score: 2, Informative

      The readme file mentions this. The solution is to use software rendering. On my 500 MHz iBook using software rendering it plays fine...not quite as fast as the same machine under OS 9/RAVE but its fast enough to play the game.