The installation of the game and Lord of Destruction expansion is appropriately tedious, requiring me to juggle an Install Disc, a Play Disc, a Cinematics Disc and Expansion Disc. I searched again…and found my original CD jewel cases! The one for Diablo 2 has a note on the back to assure you that it is “Year 2000 compliant.” Good to know. The CD key is on the front of the CD case, but I found the discs in a binder of game discs. No problem, I went to my Blizzard account and…noticed that it has a license key, which is different than the CD key.
#DIABLO 2 INSTALL DISC NOT DETECTING PORTABLE#
I brought out my portable USB DVD drive, connected it to my PC and tried installing the game the same way I did back in the year 2000. Yesterday I went looking for my original game CDs…and found them. Periodically I try something new, or repeat something I’ve tried before, hoping it will magically work this time. I am sad, but have moved on.īut wait, that’s a lie, because I am actually still quietly obsessed with getting the game to work. Diablo 2 would not run on my new PC.įast-forward to today, a year later. I began searching for, then attempting every fix or workaround I could find.Īll of them failed. Visions of the early days of Tribes 2 came vividly back–these are not good visions. When I ran the game I got an unhandled exception error.
#DIABLO 2 INSTALL DISC NOT DETECTING LICENSE KEY#
Among the games I installed was Diablo 2, grabbing the installer from Blizzard’s site, and using my license key from the same place. Still running, Windows 10, but now with a newer video card (still Nvidia) and a modern CPU (this time AMD instead of Intel). And so on.īut still, the music is great and there is satisfaction in slaying a multitude of demons and picking new skills to slay a multitude more. You have to hold town portal and identify scrolls in your limited inventory. The characters walk awfully slowly around the landscapes, and they move like they have to go to the bathroom very badly. The game is 20 years old now and has lots of janky bits to it. On my old PC I was able to install and play Diablo 2.
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