Monday, April 16, 2012

How do you play without disk?

I read the patch notes (at least the ones on the wiki page) and didnt find any info. also couldnt find info when i did a search. Could someone clue me in to how this is done and if it really helps?|||if you upload your CD key to the blizzard website, there is a digital download on there that you can use to install a no-CD version of the game. There are other ways, but I'm not totally sure of forum rules, so I'll refrain from mentioning them. I know for a fact (read: I do it myself) that the online digital download works this way.|||Awesome thank you, yea people were making it seem like it wasn't an exploit and that blizzard actually made it possible or i wouldn't of asked. thanks again.|||from the 1.12 patch notes:


Quote:




If all required Diablo 2 '.MPQ' files are installed on the

hard drive, the game will no longer require the CD to play.

For users that originally performed a 'Full Installation'

and wish to run without the CD, all '.MPQ' files should

be copied from the Diablo 2 CDs to the Diablo 2 directory.

Most users will only need to copy D2Music.mpq from the

Diablo 2 Play CD and/or D2xMusic.mpq from the Lord of

Destruction CD. Mac users will need to copy these music

files and rename them to 'Diablo II Music' and

'Diablo II Expansion Music' respectively.

Anyone who did not perform a 'Full Installation' will need

to re-install from CD again to ultimately play without the CD.

In this case, a 'Full Installation' is required, followed by file

copy step noted above.




in recap:

1. do full install

2. update to 1.12 or higher

3. drag and drop the .mpq files from the install cd over to the d2 directory on your computer.

no one's violating anything by doing this, the info and procedure come directly from Blizzard.

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