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toshio · Mar 22, 2002, 11:13 PM

Some guys tall me about that in 2 weeks later on battle.net
is it real?#_#

Mar 23, 2002, 10:05 AM

Originally posted by toshio:
Some guys tall me about that in 2 weeks later on battle.net
is it real?#_#

Not sure about the 1.10 patch but, yeah, the OS X version of D2/LOD is coming in the next 2 weeks (maybe less). If it doesn't, I'll eat my underwear.

Osirisis · Mar 23, 2002, 10:36 AM

Originally posted by <Guy Incognito>:


Not sure about the 1.10 patch but, yeah, the OS X version of D2/LOD is coming in the next 2 weeks (maybe less). If it doesn't, I'll eat my underwear.

Hopefully we're talking clean underwear

Jansar · Mar 23, 2002, 07:24 PM

Yeah, the OSX platform is about due for another patch. I want to play before my account (with nasty chars) is deleted.

Deicide · Mar 24, 2002, 08:05 PM

That's good news! Hopefully D2:LOD will be a big improvement like Starcraft was. Starcaft and D2 has a very noticable lag when played in MacOS 9. The carbinized version of starcraft is smooth,

juanvaldes · Mar 24, 2002, 08:18 PM

dude, you just made my day. z;0

Archangel · Mar 26, 2002, 04:04 PM

Yay! I may actually start playing D2 again!

Guy Incognito · Mar 26, 2002, 04:50 PM

Originally posted by Archangel:
Yay! I may actually start playing D2 again!

I probably will start again too if the crashing stops in the OS X version. I can't play D2 for more than a few minutes on my Dual-800 G4 without the damn thing crashing.

I tried everything...I thought it was the videocard, so I went to software mode. I thought it was the graphics setting, so I put all graphics settings to minimum. I thought it was the dual-CPUness of my computer, so I rebooted my computer until OS 9 claimed that one CPU is disabled (yes, it happens sometimes...I don't know why). I thought it was the screen depth...I switched to thousands from millions. I tried both 640x480 and 800x600 res. I reinstalled D2/LOD 3 times. I reinstalled OS 9 twice. I tried OpenGL...I tried RAVE. I tried sound off. I tried allocating more memory to D2...I tried allocating less memory to D2. I tried absolutely everything...you name it, I've tried it. Nothing works. D2 crashes on this machine like there's no tomorrow...and it crashes randomly. It can crash at the movie sequence at the very beginning (the Blizzard logo) or it can crash in a chat room, or it can crash loading, or it can crash in game.

Edit: I also tried running it under Classic in OS X...it's much, much slower than in OS 9...and guess what? Yup, it crashed!

[ 03-26-2002: Message edited by: Guy Incognito ]

a2daj · Mar 26, 2002, 06:00 PM

Have you tried pulling DIMMs out to see if you might have a bad RAM module? D2 has been one of the most solid games I've played on all 4 of my Macs.

Guy Incognito · Mar 26, 2002, 06:37 PM

Originally posted by a2daj:
Have you tried pulling DIMMs out to see if you might have a bad RAM module? D2 has been one of the most solid games I've played on all 4 of my Macs.

Yup...forgot to mention that. I pulled the 2 256MB DIMMs that I bought from a 3rd party. Game still crashes.

One thing I didn't do was pull the DIMM that came with the PM. I'd probably crap my pants if that was the culprit though...and I won't even try it. Besides...everything else works perfectly on my computer...in OS 9 and OS X.

[ 03-26-2002: Message edited by: Guy Incognito ]

Big Mac · Mar 26, 2002, 06:42 PM

I never found anything all that enthralling about Diablo II when I played it on a friend's PC. Is it worth playing now, or have I missed the boat?

Jansar · Mar 26, 2002, 08:13 PM

Originally posted by Big Mac:
I never found anything all that enthralling about Diablo II when I played it on a friend's PC. Is it worth playing now, or have I missed the boat?

A shitload of people still play on battle.net (including me). You're not late at all.

iSoldier · Mar 26, 2002, 08:22 PM

Originally posted by Big Mac:
I never found anything all that enthralling about Diablo II when I played it on a friend's PC. Is it worth playing now, or have I missed the boat?

I guess you just need to be into that type of genre. Some people only like FPS games. Others only like Adventure games like Super Mario. I for one bounce around from Genre to Genre. I prefer the genre bending games like Myth II (RTS 3D RENDERED) Deus Ex (FPS with RPG), etc.

Osirisis · Mar 27, 2002, 10:43 AM

It's Wednesday already. Does anyone think they'll have it out by Friday? It would be cool to be able to avoid 9 if I can help it

[ 03-27-2002: Message edited by: Osirisis ]

Mar 27, 2002, 12:34 PM

Originally posted by Osirisis:
It's Wednesday already. Does anyone think they'll have it out by Friday? It would be cool to be able to avoid 9 if I can help it

At this point, I think it's safe to say that it *won't* be out on Friday. Companies normally release stuff slightly earlier than expected or much later than expected...never, ever on the release date they had planned (or release quarter in this case).

I take my comment back...we might not see this puppy for another 2-3 weeks even if Joe Schmoe from Blizzard announced that it was almost ready and to start flooding them with e-mails if it didn't come out in the first quarter.

Rob Barris · Mar 27, 2002, 04:56 PM

"Joe Schmoe" must not have gotten the memo. I'll make sure he gets another copy of that memo.

Rob

Osirisis · Mar 27, 2002, 05:00 PM

Originally posted by Rob Barris:
"Joe Schmoe" must not have gotten the memo. I'll make sure he gets another copy of that memo.

Rob

Glad to see you're still out there Rob. Saw your posting in Usenet. We await with baited breath

Mar 27, 2002, 06:36 PM

OHHHH man... i hope "he" (Mr. Barris) isn't yanking our chain, and making us beg... caus' i'll do it!

Tominator · Mar 27, 2002, 07:19 PM

Hey kids, the patch is out now. Go get it. ftp://ftp.blizzard.com/pub/diablo2exp/patches/Diablo%20II%20LoD%20OS%20X%20patch.sit

OwlBoy · Mar 27, 2002, 08:23 PM

HOLY SHIT!

-Owl

OwlBoy · Mar 27, 2002, 08:24 PM

HOLY SHIT!

-Owl

OwlBoy · Mar 27, 2002, 08:27 PM

heres the link for those with out LoD

ftp://ftp.blizzard.com/pub/diablo2/patches/Diablo%20II%20OS%20X%20patch.sit

Wooooot! Blizzard rocks mb

-Owl

MinivanH8R · Mar 27, 2002, 08:51 PM

OMG!! Yipppeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!! I haven't played in so long because I hate restarting into 9...but now I can play without the hassle! Yippeeeeeee!!! Yaaaaayyyy!!!

Mar 27, 2002, 09:00 PM

I'll be damned...Blizzard is the shizzy of my dizzynizznizz.

God bless you Blizzard people...what a cool surprise.

The performance so far is maybe a bit slightly below the OS 9 version. But it loads the acts like a son of a bitch...daaamn fast.

Thanks Blizzard. I apologize for making that earlier comment...I was losing faith...but you guys have proven that you can keep a release date (or quarter rather).

Mar 27, 2002, 09:01 PM

Oh btw...D2/LOD was the only reason I was booting into OS 9. I can now have OS X running full time.

Tominator · Mar 27, 2002, 09:30 PM

Originally posted by <Guy Incognito>:
Oh btw...D2/LOD was the only reason I was booting into OS 9. I can now have OS X running full time.

Yeah, I hear that. OS 9 has now officially become a thing of the past, for me.

edddeduck · Mar 27, 2002, 11:09 PM

Originally posted by Tominator:


Yeah, I hear that. OS 9 has now officially become a thing of the past, for me.

I bought the game a month ago and I was awaiting for this patch I could not be bother to boot into 9 JUST for this...

At Last

Cheers Edd

Osirisis · Mar 28, 2002, 07:32 AM

This is sweet. No more OS 9. Got to test it this monring. Like everyone else there is some choppiness in comparison to 9, but this is the same as every other application in comparison to it's 9 version, so no big deal. I would agree with everyone else's assessment in regards to the hardware mode. Still some work for NVidia to do to get this up to par. You get any creatures on the screen and you pray that you can teleport through without getting hit.

Appreciate all the hard work Rob, and thanks for keeping us in the loop

Guy Incognito · Mar 28, 2002, 08:10 AM

Originally posted by Osirisis:
This is sweet. No more OS 9. Got to test it this monring. Like everyone else there is some choppiness in comparison to 9, but this is the same as every other application in comparison to it's 9 version, so no big deal. I would agree with everyone else's assessment in regards to the hardware mode. Still some work for NVidia to do to get this up to par. You get any creatures on the screen and you pray that you can teleport through without getting hit.

Appreciate all the hard work Rob, and thanks for keeping us in the loop

One thing I'm gonna try tonight is renice'ing D2 so that it gets more priority. If that doesn't cure the choppiness/skips then I'll have to blame nVidia's crappy drivers.

Steve · Mar 28, 2002, 03:42 PM

Kick ass! I may actually go use OS X to see how it runs...

Any of you non-Xpac guys wanna go play together? I've got a couple badass barbs, a zon, and a sorc (just started my first pally).

We should have a "mac dueling room"

just whisper *appleprophet later on tonite and I'm sure I'll be on.

juanvaldes · Mar 28, 2002, 09:57 PM

OS X 100% OS 9 0%

Thanks Rob and everyone else at that wonderful place called Blizzard.

make sure to pass on how much we appreciate this!!

iKevin · Mar 30, 2002, 01:18 AM

Yeah...Really great of them to do this!

Has anyone had any problems with the mouse tracking on the X version? If i move my mouse it shoots to one side or another...makes it near impossible to play.

Mar 30, 2002, 09:33 AM

Originally posted by iKevin:
Yeah...Really great of them to do this!

Has anyone had any problems with the mouse tracking on the X version? If i move my mouse it shoots to one side or another...makes it near impossible to play.

Are you using USB Overdrive? USB Overdrive doesn't play well with anything in OS X.

a2daj · Mar 30, 2002, 01:04 PM

USB Overdrive works just fine on all 3 of my Macs. You just need to disable the settings for specific apps like Diablo II, or Quake 3.

Mar 30, 2002, 01:12 PM

Just got my first Diablo 2 crash...happened in a chat screen...everything just froze. Oh well...at least I don't have to reboot the OS.

iKevin · Mar 30, 2002, 04:31 PM

Originally posted by <Guy Incognito>:


Are you using USB Overdrive? USB Overdrive doesn't play well with anything in OS X.

Nope...just elStandardo OS X usb drivers

cuomo411 · Mar 30, 2002, 06:39 PM

iKevin,

I've noticed the exact same problem with my iMac G4 800 MHz and the new Diablo 2 patch...have no clue what's going on.

iKevin · Apr 2, 2002, 08:39 PM

I still haven't resolved it...gave up playing the game again(after hours of trying to get it to run halfway decent) till they come out with a better patch.