Diablo II and Leopard 10.5.3 w/NVIDIA hardware

I was feeling nostalgic (turns out I'm not alone) what with Diablo III announced and all so I wanted to run thru the old dungeons of D2 one more time. Turns out this is a no can do with 10.5.3 and NVIDIA hardware. The 256 color mode has been removed from the driver and this causes the game to just crash before it even starts.

There is a simple solution available if your prepared to hack around with your kexts a bit. By restoring the NVIDIA drivers from the Leopard Graphics Update 1.0 package you can go back to an older version of the driver that supported 256 colors.

I was a bit scared but I just did this myself and I can report success after only one false start (bottom of thread as Dreamer3). The thread also has the full instructions but if anyone needs tips you can ping me on IRC.

Comments

[Rendez]

I was also nostalgic and your post helped me out to start it. Now I'm looking for pvp TCP servers because I don't have the courage to start over in level 1 alone haha.

[Matthew Wastrodowski]

I was feeling nostalgic too. After numerous bad links to old fileserver sites, I tried to fire up Diablo 1 demo, but it fails very early in. Need to find a work around, or find the full version.

[steven markworth]

seriously, you are my favorite guy on the internet right now. thanks.

[Dylan]

Thanks Josh ! Inquired with Blizzard, and they told me the same thing, but was too scared to try it ;) You are a brave man my friend ! A hero to us all :D

[Jarques]

I too wasn't happy about the fact that Diablo 2 (nor StarCraft) worked after the update. My solution? Install CrossOver, works perfectly.

[Jan Wikholm]

I too have been contemplating starting afresh with D2 and the expansion to run thru them prior to D3.

Thanks for reminding about this :)