I recently bought Diablo 1 via GoG and wanted to install it on my Dell Latitude for couch sessions. I installed it via Heroic and everything seemed fine, but after the Blizzard splash, the game stays black. Sometimes, when I tab out, some menu texts appear in the tab switcher thumbnail, but thats about it. I fumbled around with the graphics settings in the pre-game settings window (which is really tiny) and tries window mode, different resolutions etc. but nothing changed.
It feels a bit like a “not good enough graphics card” but… well, its Diablo 1…
Is there something I can do, or try, to make D1 playable?
yes, you only need a file called “diabat.mpq” which you can extract from the installer or copy from an existing installation.
hellfire requires some mpq-files as well, but those can be obtained in the same fashion.
Ok figured it would but everything I read referenced they’re gog version.
https://devilutionx.com/mpq
This page explains how to copy the files from your original CD.
I think gog is just the most common method and so it is always referenced. Not many people these days have physical media anymore.
Should work just fine.