Diablo 1

[Malak]

Does it work on Win7 64-bit?

 

[drebo]

Yes.

 

[Malak]

Yes.

Without qualification? Meaning, do I need to do anything special? Been considering buying it again to play. The resolution would probably be horrible though...

 

[Anubis]

640*480 baby!

looks like ass on a LCD, if you have a CRT id suggest using that

 

[Malak]

640*480 baby!

looks like ass on a LCD, if you have a CRT id suggest using that

Yeah I guess I'll just have to let it die off. Maybe one day they will make a updated version of the first, the sequels just miss a crucial part of the original.

 

[PieIsAwesome]

I don't know about the first Diablo, but Diablo II and Starcraft have image issues in Windows 7. Either the entire screen is a garbled mess of colors and the game unplayable, or the game is mostly normal with a few things oddly colored.

If you run into it there some suggested fixes you can google for, but they aren't guaranteed to work.

 

[drebo]

For Diablo, all I had to do was "Run in 256 colors" and "Run in 640x480 screen resolution". It looks well enough to play on a 20.1" LCD that normally runs at 1680x1050.

 

[Cheesetogo]

I don't know about the first Diablo, but Diablo II and Starcraft have image issues in Windows 7. Either the entire screen is a garbled mess of colors and the game unplayable, or the game is mostly normal with a few things oddly colored.

If you run into it there some suggested fixes you can google for, but they aren't guaranteed to work.

Diablo II runs fine for me on 7. The only game I've had image issues with on the OS is AoE II.

 

[Zenoth]

Yeah I guess I'll just have to let it die off. Maybe one day they will make a updated version of the first, the sequels just miss a crucial part of the original.

Play Torchlight instead, it's very much like the original Diablo, more so than its sequel, if you don't want to play Diablo on such a low resolution, then I really recommend Torchlight, unless of course you've already played it.

 

[dfuze]

I haven't installed D1 on my win 7 64 bit pc, but I do have D2 on it. Looks and runs "fine", but I am running it in windowed mode

 

[shortylickens]

Well, if Diablo 2 and Starcraft 2 are any indication, Diablo 3 will be pretty much exactly like Diablo 1 but in 3D. So you can give it up and not miss it.

 

[Cerb]

Yeah I guess I'll just have to let it die off. Maybe one day they will make a updated version of the first, the sequels just miss a crucial part of the original.

No. Set your monitor or driver to do specific pixel scaling, or run it in windowed mode. Then it will be fine.

Though, after picking it back up, I put it right back down, as Bnet is still 90% assholes with trainers.

 

[Wyndru]

I haven't installed D1 on my win 7 64 bit pc, but I do have D2 on it. Looks and runs "fine", but I am running it in windowed mode

Yeah D2 looks fine on win 7. I can run 4-8 d2 windows at a time, and my old ass core2 duo laptop still keeps up. Great for self rushing a bunch of chars just to get runes from the forge :awe:

Like mentioned above, you can probably just run d1 in windowed too and it should look fine, I haven't tried.

 

[Malak]

So I finally started playing it again, but rather than getting it to work on the PC I installed it on my phone. Works great and makes for a great mobile game.

 

[CurseTheSky]

So I finally started playing it again, but rather than getting it to work on the PC I installed it on my phone. Works great and makes for a great mobile game.

Hmmm, very interesting. Unlike Diablo 2 which required you to press several buttons (changing skills, right click to use skill, left click for normal attack / movement, etc.), Diablo 1 was pretty much just left click on everything. So, it should be perfect for a touch interface.

Any details on how you did it?

 

[Jadow]

Ahh the memories, of Townkill.exe and the Kings Sword of Haste, and the Staff that lit up every monster in the room.

 

[simonizor]

Yeah D2 looks fine on win 7. I can run 4-8 d2 windows at a time, and my old ass core2 duo laptop still keeps up. Great for self rushing a bunch of chars just to get runes from the forge :awe:

Like mentioned above, you can probably just run d1 in windowed too and it should look fine, I haven't tried.

I have to run it in window mode for it to work properly. If I don't, the colors go inverted at random times, making the game pretty much unplayable. Nice thing is you can maximize the window and it'll scale it up to double the resolution.

 

[Daishiki]

I installed it the other day and it runs fine. I haven't run into the inverted colors issue. I hope I find another Windforce.

 

[Fenixgoon]

Ahh the memories, of Townkill.exe and the Kings Sword of Haste, and the Staff that lit up every monster in the room.

archangel's staff of apocalypse

 

[Malak]

Hmmm, very interesting. Unlike Diablo 2 which required you to press several buttons (changing skills, right click to use skill, left click for normal attack / movement, etc.), Diablo 1 was pretty much just left click on everything. So, it should be perfect for a touch interface.

Any details on how you did it?

I just installed a PSX emulator and got the rom for the PSX version of diablo. Controls were designed to work with a gamepad so it works just fine on a phone.

 

[RPD]

For those interested, there is another modification to the game besides Hellfire, simply called The Hell. It takes the difficulty and the game play to a much more hard core style.

 

[DeathReborn]

Diablo 1 + Hellfire (sometimes with mods) runs just fine on both my Win7 32bit laptop & Win7 64bit desktop in 256 Colour + 640x480 resolution. Multiplayer with trusted friends (those that don't cheat) is still great to this day, even on the PS1 (2 player co-op).

If you got Hellfire don't forget to activate the 2 other characters & quests.

 

[KMFJD]

I just installed a PSX emulator and got the rom for the PSX version of diablo. Controls were designed to work with a gamepad so it works just fine on a phone.

Display is so small it's hard to play though....but it works...

 

[Mike Gayner]

There's no such thing as Diablo 1. It's just called Diablo.

 

[Texashiker]

This thread got me to thinking about the original diablo, so I installed it last night, and it looks terrible. My system is windows 7 - 64 bit, ati 4850.

The videos like their in 5 or 6 colors, the characters have different colored pixels around them. When I set the game to windows 95 or 98 compatibility mode, the game can not find the cd.