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Rowsdower
Game Will Not Launch(1)Category: Technical SupportAugust-22-2014 11:55 PM PDT (8 years ago) Go to Blizzard forum post
Ok, so I received "Diablo 3" as part of the annual pass promotion. I suffered the indignity of the Blue Screen of Death and as such had to get a new hard drive. I re-installed the game.

My problem is that when I start the game, either by way of the launcher or the .exe program itself, I am presented with a black screen. The Diablo icon is on the task bar, so when I click on that, the black screen pops back up, I can hear music for about 3 seconds, and then back to the desktop.

I did some research on this problem and none of the suggested fixes have worked.

Any assistance is greatly appreciated.

Many thanks in advance!
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Omrakos
Game Will Not Launch(2)August-23-2014 10:40 AM PDT (8 years ago) Go to Blizzard forum post
Rowsdower,

Can you post some information about your computer? You can find this information in the Direct X Diagnostic Tool:

Click on Start
Click on Run
Type in: dxdiag (In Vista, type dxdiag in the search field)
Hit Enter or OK

Click on the Save All Information button at the bottom, and create a dxdiag text file, and copy and paste it ALL here.

Could you also post your D3Prefs.txt file? It's located in the My Documents\Diablo III folder.

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