oragefan: Hi
I just bought DIABLO, installed, opened the game after the black screen, and then quit, what can I do?
Thank you
Which version is crashing for you? The "Classic" version, or the "Gog-upgraded" one? Or both?
It's not at all uncommon for the "classic" version to do as you suggest, depending on hardware. This is almost always due to a "Directdraw emulation" issue. Even when this doesn't cause a crash, it will cause pallet corruption.
The Gog-upgrade version, on the other hand, should not have that problem, and should not crash for this reason unless you don't have a video card active at all, and are running "Microsoft emergency compatibility graphics" (what it runs when the video card isn't recognized and does not have a valid, recognized, running driver.) Or, alternatively, if you have a card with ZERO "acceleration" capabilities (pretty much unheard of these days... even our phones have 3D support!)
There are a few "source ports" (replacement game executables based, in whole or part, on the original game, but using revised programming) out there. I've no experience with any of those, however.
I DO use a "directdraw" wrapper which resolves color pallet and "crash to desktop" on occasion, however. But this is unnecessary for the "upgraded GoG version" you've just bought, and would only apply to the "classic" version.
