I’ve tried to launch D3 after its scheduled maintenance; however, it won’t launch. It begins to, but then terminates. Specifically, the blue bar reads ‘Playing Now’ then reverts to ‘Play.’
I’m using Mac Sierra. Have I, finally, become obsolete?
Best,
J
My wife’s Mac Catalina is doing the same thing.
Mine came up ok. Cross fingers
What’s your OS? (And I’m writing this part because it’s required.)
Windows has a 2 Gb update to download and install.
mine won’t launch saying VCRUNTIME140_1.dll is missing. it says to try and re-install program to fix.
this only happened after the BNET update. complete BS
Im getting the same thing here.
I got that message when trying to run D3 on Windows 10 through bootcamp on a 2012 iMac running Catalina. Downloaded latest distribution ob C++ from Microsoft and it fixed.
Same here on late 2012 iMac running Catalina. I had W10 installed via bootcamp and tried that. I got a VCRUNTIME140 missing dll error. Downloaded and installed C++ from Microsoft and it corrected the dll error. D3 would then run fine on hardware using W10/bootcamp but still won’t run when booting into Catalina so it does not seem like hardware is the issue? Newer iMac running Sequoia plays fine.
I play D3 on an older system windows 10. For some reason it crashes to the desktop on my new system win 11, but it was doing that before the patch. Haven’t tried running it on the new system after the patch. Maybe it fixed it? 
It looks like Blizzard had to move to a newer version of XCode that can no longer target anything prior to Big Sur (macOS 11). World of Warcraft had that issue when it transitioned to being built with a version of XCode that could target ARM64 (M-Series Macs).
Navigate to your Diablo 3 folder in the Finder. If there is a stop sign overlayed on top of the Diablo 3 launcher and app, that means you need to be on a newer OS in order to launch the game. This is something end users cannot override.
I have this problem. Please elaborate the fix with me. I am not a savvy tech user. I am using Windows 10 and play the game thru the battlenet app. Thanks
Your issue is different from the one I’m referring to. You’ll want to make a thread in the technical support forum.
Oddly, there’s no stop; however, when I click on the launcher, it launches then, quickly, closes.
I’m getting the same thing and 4 hours later and a reinstall, I still can’t play.
Check your D3 folder in the finder like I mentioned above. If you see the D3 app and launcher with a grey stop sign over their icon, then it will not launch on your current OS anymore and you need to update to a newer OS or use Windows via boot camp.
Edit: WARNING: Do not update to any OS later than Monterey if you are on an Intel Mac. Ventura breaks a ton of functions on Intel and AMD GPUs and Sequoia further breaks them. Apple will not be releasing fixes for thse problems either as they only actively test and fix for M-Series Macs now.
same thing with that VCRUNTIME104_1.dll popup window , i rebooted system and still same message , uninstalled the battle net and reinstalled fresh from site , rebooted system and installed then again reboot , launched game and still same error , looked it up and even did the files from microsoft the vc redist .x64 and x 86 versions and installed them and tried game with still same error coming up when try to launch - the other Diablo 2 and 4 with the 2 resurrected play go figure its with Diablo 3
I did this and there was no such icon.
OK, for the VCRUNTIME104_1.DLL error, there may be a relatively easy solution. Go to the TechPowerUp site and download the all in one Visual C++ Runtime package. Follow the instructions on the page I linked and it will install all of the VC++ runtime packages released so far. The very error you’re seeing is one of the errors listed on that page that gets fixed by installing (or reinstalling) the VC++ Runtime packages.
Make sure you carefully follow the instructions. They aren’t difficult, but pay attention to what you’re doing so you get it right.
I’ve made an easy fix for win11 that appears to have fixed the issue with vcruntime140_1.dll missing. I went to windows/system 32 folder and created a copy of another file vcruntime140_1_clr0400,dll and called it vcruntime140_1.dll. I also moved a copy to diablo3 game folder with the exact same name because there was only the vcruntime140.dll there. Hope this works for the rest of you.