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<blockquote data-quote="GreyLord" data-source="post: 6094230" data-attributes="member: 4348">Are you absolutely certain you had Diablo working over the weekend.&nbsp; Starcraft and other craft games are KNOWN issues with Win7 and would not run, and Diablo had graphical glitches that made it impossible to play on&nbsp; Win7.&nbsp; However, there were workarounds which MS was made aware of and which worked to get the games running and working correctly on Win7.&nbsp; Some people made patches even to incorporate these workarounds so that you didn't have to manually do the workarounds to get those games to work.MS for some reason, instead of building off the Win7 base and utlizing it, instead appear to have closed off the work arounds and disabled any manual patches making it impossible to run an older copy.&nbsp; Unless you buy it directly from Blizzard (not certain if you still can, but they may sell the NEW copy which runs for Win8 off their site for download, which could be why they disabled ALL older copies with Win8) you shouldn't be able to run an older copy of Diablo at this point.If you can, you probably should inform MS and others...on the otherhand, maybe you shouldn't because MS probably will incorporate that into the next patch to disable however you got it running as well.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GreyLord, post: 6094230, member: 4348"] Are you absolutely certain you had Diablo working over the weekend. Starcraft and other craft games are KNOWN issues with Win7 and would not run, and Diablo had graphical glitches that made it impossible to play on Win7. However, there were workarounds which MS was made aware of and which worked to get the games running and working correctly on Win7. Some people made patches even to incorporate these workarounds so that you didn't have to manually do the workarounds to get those games to work. MS for some reason, instead of building off the Win7 base and utlizing it, instead appear to have closed off the work arounds and disabled any manual patches making it impossible to run an older copy. Unless you buy it directly from Blizzard (not certain if you still can, but they may sell the NEW copy which runs for Win8 off their site for download, which could be why they disabled ALL older copies with Win8) you shouldn't be able to run an older copy of Diablo at this point. If you can, you probably should inform MS and others...on the otherhand, maybe you shouldn't because MS probably will incorporate that into the next patch to disable however you got it running as well. [/QUOTE]

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