Diablo 2x --- wont start up

[Mr.Macbook]

Ive installed diablo 2 expansion from the website
but now when i try and open the game it says
"The application Diablo 2 has quit unexpectedly"

Ive looked up many solutions, Ive tryed to decrease the screen size to 600x800 and ive tryed downloading the patch
but i cant seem to find out where to put the patch when its downloaded

if anybody knows what i can do to fix the problem it'd be a great help
id love to get playing diablo 2

[imassents]

I take it this is for a Macbook that was purchased early 2008? If so, the drivers for the video card supplied in OS X do not support 256 colours, hence the reason for the crash. Diablo relies on 256 colour support. While this a fault of Apple, Blizzard are currently working on a fix for this, and it is believed to be implemented in the next patch, 1.13 (currently still in development).

In the mean time, patch yourself to 1.12 (http://ftp.blizzard.com/pub/diablo2exp/patches/Mac/LOD%20Patcher%20112a%20(Carbon).zip) (which you may already have). Extract the .zip file and you should be given a black battle.net icon. Double-click the file to apply the patch (it will also attempt to load the game and crash once more - this is normal). Once the patch is installed, use the beta patch to enable the game to run. You can find the patch here
http://www.macgamefiles.com/detail.php?item=20233

Just drag and drop the patch into your installed folder. Hopefully this will fix it up. This patch is also single-player only, battle.net will not work.

[Phish30]

imassents,
that was awesome and very helpful but can you explain "
Just drag and drop the patch into your installed folder." a little more? the path to the folder would be an awesome help. thanks!

[imassents]

imassents,
that was awesome and very helpful but can you explain "
Just drag and drop the patch into your installed folder." a little more? the path to the folder would be an awesome help. thanks!As it's possible to install Diablo wherever you like, try using Spotlight to find it. Press Command-Space and search for "Diablo II (Carbon)". Once it appears in the list, choose show all. Find "Diablo II (Carbon)" then right-click it and choose "Open Enclosing Folder". Put the file "Diablo II BETA-for-X3100 (Carbon)" in this folder. Use this file to load Diablo.

Please note, this is for Singleplayer only. Battle.net will not work at this stage.