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HUGE WarCraft III / Diablo II Problem
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Join Date: May 2001
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I have a new PowerMac, Dual 1.25 GHz processors, 2 GB PC2700 RAM, and GeForce 4 Ti, yet when I try to start up either Diablo II OS X or WarCraft III, there is an error message stating that I don't have enough RAM, which is a total crock of $hit.
Has anyone ever experienced this or know how to fix it?
(It works in OS 9.2, though...just not OS 10.2.1)
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Pull out RAM sticks until the games start up, then politely contact Blizzard and notify them of your problem and how you solved it. Then ask them to fix it.
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You're right about the RAM. I went down to 1.5 GB by pulling out a stick and the Blizzard games worked. However, as soon as I put them back in (back to 2 GB RAM), they stopped working. The games work in OS 9, though.
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If I'm not mistaken, the Finder in Mac OS 9 is capable of accessing only 1.5GB of RAM, whereas Mac OS X does not have that problem. My guess is that the game may be having problems seeing the RAM as reported by the Finder and what actually is there.
Have yout tried playing it under Mac OS X? It may be a bit slower, but your processing power will probably compensate for software rendering. 
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Originally posted by ginoledesma:
If I'm not mistaken, the Finder in Mac OS 9 is capable of accessing only 1.5GB of RAM, whereas Mac OS X does not have that problem. My guess is that the game may be having problems seeing the RAM as reported by the Finder and what actually is there.
Have yout tried playing it under Mac OS X? It may be a bit slower, but your processing power will probably compensate for software rendering.
Actually, you have it backwards. Mac OS 9 sees it fine, but OS X does not. These are only RAM issues, and so far it's a problem with the Blizzard games. (Diablo II and WarCraft).
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The 1.03 patch to Warcraft III fixes that problem. I will look into our plans for updating Diablo II on OSX for this issue.
You may need to either temporarily boot into OS9 to get WC3 patched, or temporarily remove one DIMM and patch WC3 under OSX that way. It almost goes without saying to power down first before trying any games with the RAM.
The third option would be to use the standalone patcher app which I expect (but cannot promise) to be posted on our website today.
Rob rbarris "at" blizzard.com
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hey Rob. thanks for posting. Just thought I'd chime in with one little bug:
-playing as the paladin in D2:LoD, OS X 10.2.1, patch 1.0.9 (newest): D2 crashes when I attempt to equip a heraldric shield. I'm on a tibook 667, 512 RAM. no issues doing this in the OS 9 version.
I have the crash logs, but I don't know if they're any use to you guys.
thanks again!
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