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?

    • zewm@lemmy.world
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      10 hours ago

      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.