Diablo 2 System requirements are epic

[CptSlappy]

i can't await to play Diablo 3 and have installed Diablo 2 to play it for the last time again. And while i am downloading i have read the manual. The System Requirements made me laugh

Here it it is, fasten your seatbelts:

• 233 MHz Pentium or better
• 32 MB RAM
• 650 MB drive space
• 4X CD-ROM drive
• DirectX 6.1 compatible video card

i can not remember what kind of crappy computer i had then, but must have been something similar to this, because id didn't run very well...

On what kind of computers do you guys have played diablo for the first time?

[Urzuxo]

Mhz? wow, never actually seen that written before.

[stonerdoom]

Commodore 64? :]

[CptSlappy]

Commodore 64? :]

no, that was just 1 Mhz, but something close to that. I had one of those too it was much fun.

[ElBozo]

I think now a calculator can run D2...

Also to answer your question, i think it was a crappy 200mhz with some no-name graphics card. I remember the graphical lag in act 4... Usually took me about 2-3 hours to get to diablo. Not to mention, a wonderful 1-skill-point-in-everything barbarian build.

[Forgotten One]

i can't await to play Diablo 3 and have installed Diablo 2 to play it for the last time again. And while i am downloading i have read the manual. The System Requirements made me laugh

Here it it is, fasten your seatbelts:

• 233 MHz Pentium or better
• 32 MB RAM
• 650 MB drive space
• 4X CD-ROM drive
• DirectX 6.1 compatible video card

i can not remember what kind of crappy computer i had then, but must have been something similar to this, because id didn't run very well...

On what kind of computers do you guys have played diablo for the first time?

The first time I played Diablo was on it's launch day.
At the time my PC was:

HP Pavilion PC Model 7110Z

120 MHz Pentium
16 MG ram (SIMMs)
16 KB Level 1 cache (8 KB for data, 8 KB for code)
0 KB Level 2 cache
Video Memory: 256K x 16
Video Memory Type: 60ns or faster (DRAM)
28.8 Kbps modem
Windows 95

Good times!

[Sokar Rostau]

My first computer was a Vic20, but my dad had one that I was never allowed to go near so have no idea what it was other than that it used 8" floppy disks.

I played both D1 and D2 on the same 1999 Indigo iMac

350Mhz PowerPC G3
OS9.1
128Mb RAM (eventually upped to 256Mb)
8Mb vRAM
ATI RAGE 128 pro
10Gb HDD (remember, D2:LoD took up a bit over 1Gb)
125mb external drive
28.8 kbps dial-up that I had to redial every 4 hours

That lasted me until 2006 and I still use it as a jukebox.

For D3 I have

AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4GHz Quad Core CPU Black Edition
Windows 7 Home Premium
ATI 5830HD 1Gb gfx card
8Gb RAM
1Tb internal hdd
500Gb internal hdd
1Tb external hdd
ADSL2+ broadband

[Darkmere]

I first played Diablo 1 on a 486-33.
The 33 is for 33 Mhz. I remember getting the processor upgrade to 66 Mhz and how awesome it was that I could press F5 in DOOM II to run it in glorious 640X480, or whatever it was then, and have almost no stutter. It ran the original Worms and Warcraft great, too.

[eatspie]

I totally remember my family computer running slow as HELL playing d2. It took like 45 seconds for the loading screen to finish... doing baal runs was horrible because by the time I got into the game all the monsters were dead LOL. Then my dad bought a new computer that sounded like a freaking jet engine when it started up... it ran sooooo fast the loading screens were practically instant, it was heaven.

[NMnine]

I had just gotten my new 450MHz with a RIVA TNT1 when D2 was released. Smooth as silk baby