Diablo and Diablo 2 have problems running in Windows 7. AFAIR, they are 256 color games, and Win7 does not support 8bit colour anymore. They seem to work fine with a Glide wrapper, though.

well i have a old tower I was playing it on but my tower wont turn on at all. so I tryed it on m laptop and i pulled it up and the color was like wow holy crap thats bad. So I tryed running it with DOSbox and it wont even run it.

Diablo is a Windows game, of course it will not run in DOSBox.

I figured it was worth a shot, all I want to do is play my games but they are all the "old" games.

I suggest you install a Glide wrapper and run Diablo with it. It seems to work with Diablo 2. Try nGlide, I think is worth a try.

Diablo1 doesn't use glide, ist a Direct Draw game, so using a glide wrapper for Diablo1 won't help.

The game runs fine for me under Win7 x64.
Right click the EXE, click "properties" and go to the "compatibility" tab. Enable WinXP SP3 compatibility and check everything in the "settings" box. That works for me.

I ran into issues with Diablo on Windows 7 as well. I am not sure what causes it but it has something to do with explorer.exe. The best solution I've found is to kill the process and then open Diablo. I got tired of doing this so I made up a quick batch file.

This part is widely available around the web as the de facto solution for the issue:

Open up notepad, copy/paste the bit below and save it as a .bat file. Make sure it is saved in the same directory as Diablo.exe.

1@echo off
2taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
3diablo.exe
4pause
5start explorer.exe
6exit

You can use this to run the program without issue. The way it is written it has to be saved in the same directory as Diablo.exe.

Instead of navigating to the batch file every time, I made a shortcut of it on the desktop. The default icon is pretty ugly, so you can change it to the Diablo icon or since you are on Win7, a 32-bit icon would look sharp.

To change the icon: Right click the shortcut => Select Properities => Select Change Icon => Choose the icon you want by clicking browse and navigating to the icon file => Click OK.

Now, rename the shortcut to Diablo and you have a batch file disguised as the real deal on your desktop. Set it up once and you're good to go.

I've had only a few troubles here and there in Diablo II. The best solution I've found is to just run it in a window by adding the -w parameter to the end of the shortcut destination.

i had installed Diablo 1 because i lost the diablo2 cd key to install it.... I have had these games for years and my last move I lost all my codes for Diablo and the old Sims 2 games. But I will try the both suggestions out if one dont work the other might.

OK I tryed it and it did not work neither of them did. I did the code with your directions and all it is doing is poping back up with th notepad. I am not sure what I did wrong. Oh I dont have a Diablo.exe in my computer sistum. Not one that says it like that anyways.

whay is this thread doing in Console & Arcade?

killing explorer works
or you could use
http://bitpatch.com/downloads/ddraw_color_fixer.zip
or
http://bitpatch.com/downloads/ddwrapper.zip

Diablo1 is one of the few games that should already have this "fix" applied by Win7 by default. However if you change the executable name ( a mod or hellfire.exe ) it doesn't get applied by default.

So you downloaded diablo, it doesn't work and there is no diablo.exe.

Maybe the solution would be to start by getting a legitimate copy.

robertmo wrote:

whay is this thread doing in Console & Arcade?

Took care of that for ya 😉

Hi pointy one 😜

snowflake wrote:

OK I tryed it and it did not work neither of them did. I did the code with your directions and all it is doing is poping back up with th notepad. I am not sure what I did wrong.

It opens with Notepad because you saved it with a .txt extension. A batch file should have a .bat extension.

Disable "hide file extensions for known filetypes" under "Folder and Search Options" so you can see what you're doing.

snowflake wrote:

i had installed Diablo 1 because i lost the diablo2 cd key to install it.... I have had these games for years and my last move I lost all my codes for Diablo and the old Sims 2 games. But I will try the both suggestions out if one dont work the other might.

I've got a Diablo 2 up on eBay at the moment, but can't advertise it here, but you might be able to find it!

TO get them to work just Disable and goto Classic theme and it will work!