MPQ (within the Lord of Destruction CD) and dropped them into the Diablo 2 folder. Personally, I highlighted all the files ending as. Once that’s done, run the game and it’ll get the patch. Once the Expansion pack is installed, go to the Lord of Destruction CD and copy these two files to your Diablo II folder: Once it’s done, install the Expansion pack.

DatH said the following: Please reinstall the game using the Full Installation method (with the cinematics) to make sure that all 3rd party files are gone from the Diablo II folder.

UPDATE: Some fans are having problems with making the no-cd feature work. Share your comments with other Diablo fans. – Fixed an incompatibility between Rosetta and OpenGL mode on Intel Mac. In this case, a ‘Full Installation’ is required, followed by file Mac users will need to copy these music files and rename them to ‘Diablo II Music’ and ‘Diablo II Expansion Music’ respectively.Īnyone who did not perform a ‘Full Installation’ will need to re-install from CD again to ultimately play without the CD.

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. – If all required Diablo 2 ‘.MPQ’ files are installed on the hard drive, the game will no longer require the CD to play.įor 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. This patch marks the new ladder reset and introduces a no-cd patch. You can download it by login into the realms. The Diablo II patch 1.12 was released today at 1:30pm EST (-5GMT).

Diablo 2 lod patch history