Diablo 1 full screen windows 7

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Your friends. Friends list is currently empty. Connect with friends. It only takes a minute to sign up. Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. I just found an old copy of Diablo the first game in a box and whacked it into my laptop I purchased just yesterday.

After the quick install I hit play and found that the screen remained black nothing was rendering. There was however sound. I downloaded the patch but still nothing. With it being a new laptop, I figure I might be missing some required software like Direct X maybe? I'm not really sure. Notorious problem I'm afraid.

Not so much missing software but you'll have a version of DirectX so advanced it's incompatible with early games. This may sound weird and I have actually done this to play Diablo on my Win 7 laptop , but right click on your desktop and click on Screen Resolution.

Leave that open and then run Diablo. It allows you to provide path to original Diablo files on your disk so you can play game legally. After updating Diablo to version 1. There are a variety of other mods to Diablo which achieve the same level of modern playability, but many also change the gameplay to various extents. This patch preserves vanilla Diablo. Note: Blizzard discontinued support for Battle. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Quanton Member.

Sep 24, 12 0 1 Santa Maria. Warriouge said:. Click to expand Last edited: Sep 24, Tried what you said, but didn't get it to work. However my d1 disc have been broken for some time. Might try re installing and see what happens. Noktis Member. Mar 17, 11 0 1 Poland diablo. Hmm dunno what I'm suppose to do with it?