I should note that, in my research on this issue, I've found the problem being encountered on other versions of Windows 7 and Windows Vista. Second, the version I am playing is Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction, v1.
Which means it's the expansion pack, and it's the latest version as of today - the one that allows you to play without the CD in your drive. The Problem 1. When you try to launch the game, nothing happens.
The Solution You might notice in the upper left corner of your screen, there is a small, black, square patch with a random series of characters flashing one-by-one. If there is, wait for around minutes. It shouldn't take more than 5minutes before the game finally loads. Your screen resolution might change, as this decade-old game is optimized for a x or x screen.
But the game will eventually load. I don't know what the system is doing or why it takes so long, but I got this advice off the internet, and it worked. Now, try exiting from the game and then starting it again.
If it loads immediately now, and you have no further display issues, you may skip the rest of this post. If not, read on. The Problem 2 I tried your advice but I just tried installing Diablo II on my girlfriend's laptop so that she can get caught up on the gameplay in preparation for playing Diablo III together I remember I did something to get it working before, but I couldn't get it working by just setting compatibility mode to Windows In order to run Diablo 2 on my windows 7 PC, I did the following and this should work for Vista as well :.
If you still run into issues, try keeping the Screen Resolution menu opened as you play. This may sound odd, but I've seen a few people say this solved their problems when playing. Think I had issues using the actual CDs because you couldn't patch them properly to begin with, etc. If you have the CD keys you can just hop onto the website and add your games and download the clients for free:. If you're planning to play over anything other than battle.
Right-click your Game. This should allow your game to start normally, but you will probably have serious lag spike issues that need to be resolved. Select the "Services" tab, and click the "services" button at the bottom of that screen to access your services manager. This will fix your lag issues and compatibility issues with D2 in Windows Vista 6.
When I installed on Windows 7 I was getting Unhandled Exceptions and couldn't get past the first menu. I found that installing the latest patch from Battle. Net seemed to fix everything. Diablo II Patches. Hope this helps, oh and you can do this for most old games. Start the game first then minimize it.
Building for Windows 7 compatibility now would force Blizzard to maintain that support for years after the EOL stage, which has already passed. Most sensible developers are looking forward, not backward. It just makes no sense from a technical support standpoint.
But as time marches on, fewer and fewer games will do so. Consider yourself warned. You can multi-quote. If it does not run under Windows 7 my gaming PC then I will be forced to request a refund….
Blizzard does not support OS systems that Microsoft no longer supports. The answer is to not buy it to begin with because you know the answer. Why make a post telling people not to tell you the accurate state of the OS and support? How can I request a refund?
Only the orignal Diablo II is listed on the refund page. Active Oldest Votes. If for some reason mounting the disc is not causing the Windows autorun system to automatically run the installer, you can do the following: At the root of the disc will be a text file called autorun. This tells older versions of Windows what to run automatically when the disc is inserted. Open the file in a text editor.
This is the executable that Windows would normally launch for you. Navigate to that. This should cause the launcher to open and let you install the game. Improve this answer. EXE " in the root directory. Running either of these will take you to the installation wizard. That's good to know; I don't actually have discs for the game any longer so my answer is based mainly on the memory of them. And the way the autorun stuff works.
I just dug the disks out specifically to check. Feel free to include any of the above in your answer if you feel it would be an improvement I've already upvoted it anyway. I had this to add, however: Diablo II doesn't require registry information to play.
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