Blizzard Issues Update For 16-Year-Old Diablo II

Blizzard this week issued an update for the popular Diablo II game. The update, dubbed v1.14a, comes roughly five years after Diablo II was last updated, and four years since the release of Diablo III. Blizzard says the update aims to resolve glitches introduced by modern operating systems. While Blizzard's commitment towards its 16-year old game is unquestionably commendable, it appears the new update is causing issues for some.

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Full fresh install is recommended..

[Anonymous Coward]

It seems that updating an existing install (with all the patches and workarounds required to keep it going on a Intel-based Mac) is problematic.
Backup your game-characters and delete the game. Then download and re-install from scratch. That works fine.

The download doesn't show for some reason in the normal clients-download under "My Account" on Battle.net (only the Windows version).

If you go to the generic downloads section https://battle.net/account/clients it is there.
Please note: For LoD you need to download/install DII first then LoD.
You don't need the original game CD's, but you will need both the game-keys.
You can easily find those in your account settings on battle.net if you previously registered.

Just got LoD going on a iMac 5K. Pixels are really big :-) because the 800x600 display gets stretched (thankfully with correct with aspect-ratio) to full-screen. Leaves a big black border on left and rights sides, but that doesn't really bother me.
Mouse-handling seems quite imprecise (hard to pickup stuff from the ground), but I'm using a MagicMouse. Must see if USB works better.

Re:but no Linux?

[Dutch Gun]

Microsoft is taking Linux seriously as a server platform, in which it has a significant presence and market share. Game developers target client machines, in which Linux has a very tiny market share (under 1% according to Steam). It's the same reason fewer developers bother making apps for Windows Phone, yet Microsoft itself is targeting iOS and Android with its own apps. Developers go where the market is.