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Archived from groups: '[email protected]' wrote in [email protected]: I believe, from what I have read, that you can still install OS9 on the new G5's you just can't get them to start up in OS9. Having it installed will allow you run in classic mode though. Sorry but I'm still on a iMac G3.
Hope this helps a little. PeterG My wife has a G4 and as far as I know there's a patch to Diablo II LOD that works with X. Of course, you have to deal with the fact that Mac/Apple in its 'wisdom' has changed operating systems (9 to a version of X that they disavowed and went to ANOTHER version of X without any upgrade option) and a G4 that suddenly went duel processor and completely screwed us owners a SECOND time and now is moving to a Pentium system which will, I hope, finally put the last nail in Apple's self crafted coffin. Archived from groups: Peter James wrote: I've just purchased a iMac G5 that runs OS X only. What are the requirements for me to install and play Diablo II and LOD. Is there a Mac user on this group who can point me in the right direction.
Many thanks. Blizzard has an OS X installer you can download on their web site. It will do the installation without requiring you to run OS 9. Just insert your discs. The requirements are pretty much that you have enough RAM and hard disk space (as long as you use that installer) but I'm guessing a new iMac is going to have you more than covered in that regard.
That being said, I would recommend you set the video to the lowest settings (no music, low quality lighting and shadows) and use 2D software rendering instead of 3D (hold down the option key while launching to choose this). The Mac's graphic's controller is poorly used by D2 and LoD and the game is jerky even on a brand new Mac. My 3-year-old eMachine runs D2 better than my brand new Mac Mini despite the Mini's greater speed and greater RAM (and the fact that the eMachine is a low end consumer model PC). You may notice some other problems as well such as intermittent crashing and weird screen appearance depending on your monitor size and resolution (mine runs with a black bar across the bottom). All in all, the implementation for OS X is not the best.
It could be my computer's configuration that makes it run badly so YMMV. One benefit though is that you can (still) run the game off of disc images as you did in OS 9 so you can put your discs away and mount an image to play from. Shari (Orchid). Archived from groups: On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 07:33:10 +0100, Orchid wrote (in article ): Peter James wrote: I've just purchased a iMac G5 that runs OS X only. What are the requirements for me to install and play Diablo II and LOD. Is there a Mac user on this group who can point me in the right direction. Many thanks.
Blizzard has an OS X installer you can download on their web site. It will do the installation without requiring you to run OS 9. Just insert your discs. I'm running a G5 iMac with 1 gig ram and 120 gig HD I installed OS 9 and D2 and LOD runs under that. Would there be any advantage in down-loading the OS X installer.
The requirements are pretty much that you have enough RAM and hard disk space (as long as you use that installer) but I'm guessing a new iMac is going to have you more than covered in that regard. see above That being said, I would recommend you set the video to the lowest settings (no music, low quality lighting and shadows) and use 2D software rendering instead of 3D (hold down the option key while launching to choose this). The Mac's graphic's controller is poorly used by D2 and LoD and the game is jerky even on a brand new Mac.
My 3-year-old eMachine runs D2 better than my brand new Mac Mini despite the Mini's greater speed and greater RAM (and the fact that the eMachine is a low end consumer model PC). I'll try the settings you suggest, and see how that goes. I have to say that the game is very jerky. You may notice some other problems as well such as intermittent crashing and weird screen appearance depending on your monitor size and resolution (mine runs with a black bar across the bottom). All in allthe implementation for OS X is not the best. It could be my computer's configuration that makes it run badly so YMMV.
The game is very unsatisfactory. It stalls, goes very slowly during conflict, and for some reason stalls when trying to exit the game. And then after about 1 minute it brings up the normal D2 exit screen to finish off normally.
At the moment I think that the game is to all intents and purposes un-playable. I'll try the suggestions you made a bout altering the video etc and see if that makes any difference. If not, I'll junk it.
I'm certainly not going back to a Windows PC just to be able to run D2. One benefit though is that you can (still) run the game off of disc images as you did in OS 9 so you can put your discs away and mount an image to play from. Many thanks for your reply. Archived from groups: Peter James wrote: On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 07:33:10 +0100, Orchid wrote (in article ): Peter James wrote: I've just purchased a iMac G5 that runs OS X only.
What are the requirements for me to install and play Diablo II and LOD. Is there a Mac user on this group who can point me in the right direction. Many thanks. Blizzard has an OS X installer you can download on their web site.
It will do the installation without requiring you to run OS 9. Just insert your discs. I'm running a G5 iMac with 1 gig ram and 120 gig HD I installed OS 9 and D2 and LOD runs under that.
Would there be any advantage in down-loading the OS X installer. If you've already installed it, there probably is no reason to get the installer unless you're running the game in Classic mode. I've never installed it into Classic through OS X so I don't know how it installs when you don't use the OS X installer. It's a little confusing but I think if you use the installers on the original CDs, it'll install as an OS 9 application and run in Classic. In Classic, it is bound to run rather badly as the classic environment is emulated in OS X. If you install using the OS X installer, it will install as an OS X (Carbon) application and not need to run OS 9 to run the game. It is possible that running any OS X updaters for the game will fix the need to run in Classic mode but since I never used those updaters (because I used the OS X installer), I can't say for sure.
If Classic isn't launching when you launch the game, you're probably OK and don't need the OS X installer. The requirements are pretty much that you have enough RAM and hard disk space (as long as you use that installer) but I'm guessing a new iMac is going to have you more than covered in that regard. see above Your specs are more than adequate. That being said, I would recommend you set the video to the lowest settings (no music, low quality lighting and shadows) and use 2D software rendering instead of 3D (hold down the option key while launching to choose this). The Mac's graphic's controller is poorly used by D2 and LoD and the game is jerky even on a brand new Mac. My 3-year-old eMachine runs D2 better than my brand new Mac Mini despite the Mini's greater speed and greater RAM (and the fact that the eMachine is a low end consumer model PC). I'll try the settings you suggest, and see how that goes.
I have to say that the game is very jerky. For me, it's almost unbearably so because I never played it under those conditions before. The game also ran better on my 7-year-old beige Mac DT/266 with a 500 mhz upgrade under OS 9 than it runs on a 1.42 ghz Mini with a GB of RAM. The best option would be to be able to boot into OS 9 but, unfortunately, that's not possible on newer Macs. Next year, when the Intel-based Macs come out, I'm guessing D2 won't run at all on them in its Mac form (though it may run in its PC form which would be ironic). The Carbon version of D2 simply seems to be pretty poor.
However, you can improve it by lowering the demands of the game as much as possible (turning off music, turning off visual goodies). You may notice some other problems as well such as intermittent crashing and weird screen appearance depending on your monitor size and resolution (mine runs with a black bar across the bottom). All in allthe implementation for OS X is not the best. It could be my computer's configuration that makes it run badly so YMMV.
The game is very unsatisfactory. It stalls, goes very slowly during conflict, and for some reason stalls when trying to exit the game. And then after about 1 minute it brings up the normal D2 exit screen to finish off normally. At the moment I think that the game is to all intents and purposes un-playable. I'll try the suggestions you made a bout altering the video etc and see if that makes any difference.
If not, I'll junk it. I'm certainly not going back to a Windows PC just to be able to run D2.
I've experienced the same problems you describe above though far less jerkiness in the actual game-playing since changing the settings. In my case, I have a monitor switcher in place so I can go back and forth between my Mac and PC. I use the PC for getting T.V.
Shows (I live in Japan and have no access to American T.V.) and playing games. I use the Mac for pretty much everything else.
It's the best of both worlds. Unfortunately, I'm guessing you don't have that option because of the iMac's built-in monitor. One benefit though is that you can (still) run the game off of disc images as you did in OS 9 so you can put your discs away and mount an image to play from. Many thanks for your reply.
You're quite welcome. I only wish it was better news. Shari (Orchid). Archived from groups: Orchid wrote: That being said, I would recommend you set the video to the lowest settings (no music, low quality lighting and shadows) and use 2D software rendering instead of 3D (hold down the option key while launching to choose this). The Mac's graphic's controller is poorly used by D2 and LoD and the game is jerky even on a brand new Mac. My 3-year-old eMachine runs D2 better than my brand new Mac Mini despite the Mini's greater speed and greater RAM (and the fact that the eMachine is a low end consumer model PC). Depends which Mac you have though - my ancient iMac struggles and has to use the software renderer for graphics, but my husband's dual processor G4 runs it quite happily with the graphics rendered in Open GL.
You may notice some other problems as well such as intermittent crashing and weird screen appearance depending on your monitor size and resolution (mine runs with a black bar across the bottom). All in allthe implementation for OS X is not the best. It could be my computer's configuration that makes it run badly so YMMV. It sounds to me as if it could be at least partly your system as I don't get those issues even on my iMac DV (which is at least five years old, probably more -.I. need better memory:-)). Of course three computers is too small a sample to be sure about that.
Carol 'This might as well say 'bing tiddle tiddle bong'. It's complete gibberish!' - Rodney McKay, Stargate Atlantis. I've been playing LOD on both machines for a good long while now (about 3 or 4 years) and I'd say that, while the jerkyness is less on the PC, my best performance is on my dual processor G4.
I think that it's the dual processor support that makes it. Both my PC and a frind of mine's are more than twice the clock speed of the G4 (800MB) with as much or more RAM, but the G4 runs the game the best. What I want to know is how to get the two platforms to play on the same TCP network game. I can get my G4 desk top and G4 iBook too network great, and at my friends house we can play on his PCs no problem. The character file transports between platforms effortlessly, and it's a dual platform install disk that we've used to install on the computers. Still, I've been trying for more than two years (unsuccesfully) to network the Mac and the Windows forthe game. Does anyone have any suggestons how to solve my difficulties?
Ok this is what u do. All you have to do is download the CD disk off of that is the link to the download for mac os x! I dont think intell chip will work but im on a G4 and it works perfect, mabey a bit fast aswell. Anyway, this work very well and its a torrent so you have to download it with limewire or Vuze. It takes about 12 hours straight to download but its worth it, you can go on b.net and stuff and it comes with CD-codes!!!!!!! If you have any questions just email me at [email protected] thanks and goodbye.