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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?

edit: DevilutionX did it amd it was a breeze. Ty all.

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[–] maltasoron@sopuli.xyz 17 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Know that Diablo specifically has issues when run under wine/proton because of the way the menu was implemented. It violates the Windows specification, so on wine/proton you just get a black screen and have to navigate it blindly. Even on modern Windows the menu doesn't work properly and has various graphical issues.

From the GOG forums.

The general advice, also on the PCGamingWiki, is to play DevilutionX.

[–] xtapa@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 days ago

Will try that, thanks!