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Posted March 07, 2019
Attempting to start the game as "Diablo" (not "Diablo (Classic)") results in an error where it requires the CD in the drive. Pressing "OK" loops back to the same error, and pressing "Cancel" brings up an issue that it is unable to load the file "diabdat.mpq".

Running a repair and running as administrator had no effect.
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Post edited March 07, 2019 by czarevilsam
This question / problem has been solved by Thievimage
Posted March 07, 2019
Also getting this issue.
Posted March 07, 2019
I can't even see the text in the error message, it presents me a blank error box that I can choose between what is probably "Try Again" and "Quit" with the arrow keys and enter button.
Posted March 07, 2019
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czarevilsam: Attempting to start the game as "Diablo" (not "Diablo (Classic)") results in an error where it requires the CD in the drive. Pressing "OK" loops back to the same error, and pressing "Cancel" brings up an issue that it is unable to load the file "diabdat.mpq".

Running a repair and running as administrator had no effect.
Did you have a previously installed Diablo on your system? This might be what causes this issue.
Posted March 07, 2019
Going as someone who still owns the game and found creative ways to make the disc run without using the disc I have an idea for you to try.

Go into your diablo location on your computer. See if you can look for a specific file. Default I get those messages on my PC if I don't have the disc in the drive, but by copying over DIABDAT.MPQ into the root directory of the game kills the CD check.

Not sure this will help, but it's a thought to look into.

I've had to use the HD Bezelbub hack to run this old game on my computer but stupidly enough they tweaked it added some weirdness to it and hacked it up a bit so it's not the same game so this real release here is appealing.
Posted March 07, 2019
it's possibly registry related, either the installation got messed up or the AV did.

I would suggest submitting a ticket to our Technical Support : http://bit.ly/GOGTechnical
Posted March 07, 2019
I'm pretty confident I don't have another installation of the game on my PC, so that's not it. I'll submit a ticket.
Posted March 07, 2019
Same problem here.
Posted March 07, 2019
I have this problem as well, submitting a ticket
Posted March 07, 2019
Thanks guys for submitting the tickets, we'll look into this.
Posted March 07, 2019
No problems here so far. The high-resolution support version (Diablo) works fine on my Windows 7 (64 bit).
Posted March 07, 2019
Same problem here. Maybe because i have the original installed?
Posted March 07, 2019
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That error suggests something went wrong during installation and one of registry keys is either not set or not read properly.
As a quick workaround, try copying diabdat.mpq from root folder to DX folder.

The key in question:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node*\Blizzard Entertainment\Archives\DiabloCD
should point to the game installation folder.

*on x64 machines
Post edited March 07, 2019 by Thiev
Posted March 07, 2019
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Thiev: That error suggests something went wrong during installation and one of registry keys is either not set or not read properly.
As a quick workaround, try copying diabdat.mpq from root folder to DX folder.

The key in question:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node*\Blizzard Entertainment\Archives\DiabloCD
should point to the game installation folder.

*on x64 machines
This worked perfectly, thank you!
Posted March 08, 2019
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czarevilsam: Attempting to start the game as "Diablo" (not "Diablo (Classic)") results in an error where it requires the CD in the drive. Pressing "OK" loops back to the same error, and pressing "Cancel" brings up an issue that it is unable to load the file "diabdat.mpq".

Running a repair and running as administrator had no effect.
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chandra: Did you have a previously installed Diablo on your system? This might be what causes this issue.
I do have the original retail version installed, but by the time I got home from work, I got a new update pushed and whatever it was seemed to have fixed the issue and I'm hacking my way through the Cathedral! Thanks for the really fast turnaround!
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