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KaptainKaya · Mar 27, 2002, 10:10 PM

Well, the big update is finally here, anyone try it yet? I'm d/l it now, I'll test it and report after that. Cheers.

Tominator · Mar 27, 2002, 11:42 PM

It works pretty well on my 733 with Radeon 7500. Just losing a few FPS under the OS 9 version. A big thanks to Blizzard for making this update. OS 9 is now officially history on my Mac.

KaptainKaya · Mar 27, 2002, 11:54 PM

I'm impressed actually. On a B&W G3/350/896MB RAM, this thing works like it should and keeps me from booting into 9 and play it. Kudos to Blizzard!!

nemanirc · Mar 28, 2002, 01:53 PM

I played it for a few minutes this morning and it seemed to work well. Another reason why Blizzard is my favorite game developer, going all the way back to Warcraft I.

Archangel · Mar 28, 2002, 04:39 PM

Could you guys post your GPUs, resolution using, and actual FPS?

I get around 12 fps in 640x800 in Open GL w/ my Rage pro. . .I've heard it runs much better in software mode. I haven't checked that yet. As it stands, the Rage pro is too weak for me to play it with enjoyment.

IamBob · Mar 28, 2002, 05:05 PM

In order to use this you still need to boot OS9.

I could care less about the item editing(on open/single), I just want the monsters to show on-screen...

So, how long do you think it'll be before someone comes up with a maphack for us OSX users?

davechen · Mar 28, 2002, 05:59 PM

Originally posted by Archangel:
<STRONG>Could you guys post your GPUs, resolution using, and actual FPS?

I get around 12 fps in 640x800 in Open GL w/ my Rage pro. . .I've heard it runs much better in software mode. I haven't checked that yet. As it stands, the Rage pro is too weak for me to play it with enjoyment.</STRONG>

Yeah, I get much better results in software mode. I have a 500 mhz ti book and at 640x480 I get about 5 fps, turning off everything.

Justin W. Williams · Mar 28, 2002, 07:02 PM

Hooray. Guess I can finally go out and buy Diablo2. This was what held me back from getting it.

chezpaul · Mar 29, 2002, 12:41 AM

How long did U guys play /??
I downloaded it and first off had to turn off Hot App, a preference pane hot key launcher. (in order to access F1, F2, F3 etc)
Then once that was taken care of, it would just crash after 2 or 3 minutes.. can't play much more than that... ;-(

gheff · Mar 29, 2002, 12:59 AM

Ooo!

Played for several hours this evening. Went great. No crashes. No glitches. Very cool.

I don't know the FPS number, but I was running 800x600 in software. My creaky old G3 266 with Rage Pro won't do Open GL rendering. (Yes I run X on my G3 266. I quite like it, thank you very much.

) It was probably slower than most of you could stand, but I'm used to this speed. It was not that much slower than under OS 9 using hardware rendering.

#gheff

KaptainKaya · Mar 29, 2002, 01:34 AM

I played for close to 5 hours alone tonight.

dark3lf · Mar 29, 2002, 08:12 AM

The single player works extremely well, Starcraft and D2 are the fastest and most stable games on OS X if you're playing in single player mode. In the multiplayer mode, everything locked up and I had to hit the reboot button, second time I tried, I got time outs after every session I tried to join, and of course it hangs the game (doesn't crash) but I have to wait till the game decides that it wants to log out of the session to do anything else.