D2 Help

[Linus]

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I just bought Diablo 2 tonight. Bought it in hopes of running
networked play in my house on my 3 computers.

Having some problems:

#1: I installed the 1.09b upgrade patch successfully on 2 of the 3
computers. The 2 that it worked on were a Celeron 2.66 and a Duron
800 mhz machine both running XP. The computer it wouldn't install on
is a dinosaur...P2 400, Win 98.

Any idea what is preventing the patch from installing correctly?


#2: In multiplayer play, I don't qiute understand the point. Once
the host exits the game, how do you get back to where you were? Do
you have to start fresh with each and every multiplayer game? I
understand the characters keep their skills and such, but isn't the
basis of the game a continuing adventure. I hope this isn't a stupid
questoin.

 

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"Linus" <linus@nospam.yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:qi9iq0p0r8v1l7u53tjnu5r7n7p47hi9ft@4ax.com...
>I just bought Diablo 2 tonight. Bought it in hopes of running
> networked play in my house on my 3 computers.
>
> Having some problems:
>
> #1: I installed the 1.09b upgrade patch successfully on 2 of the 3
> computers. The 2 that it worked on were a Celeron 2.66 and a Duron
> 800 mhz machine both running XP. The computer it wouldn't install on
> is a dinosaur...P2 400, Win 98.

The most curent patch is 1.10. It will download automatically if you connect
to battle.net.
If you want the 1.09 patch, then don't connect to battlenet.
I use a P2 398mhz, and it works fine here.

> Any idea what is preventing the patch from installing correctly?

Not sure sorry. Did you do a full install?

> #2: In multiplayer play, I don't qiute understand the point. Once
> the host exits the game, how do you get back to where you were? Do
> you have to start fresh with each and every multiplayer game? I
> understand the characters keep their skills and such, but isn't the
> basis of the game a continuing adventure. I hope this isn't a stupid
> questoin.
>
You complete quests. You only need to do each quest once. If the creator of
the game has already done the quests you need, you will need to create your
own game to complete them
You also can collect waypoints, allowing you to start where you left off.
You will see how it works once you get going.

Justin

 

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here's a link to the D2 official site as well.

http://www.battle.net/diablo2exp/

Justin

 

[Guest]

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Linus wrote:
> I just bought Diablo 2 tonight. Bought it in hopes of running
> networked play in my house on my 3 computers.
>
> Having some problems:
>
> #1: I installed the 1.09b upgrade patch successfully on 2 of the 3
> computers. The 2 that it worked on were a Celeron 2.66 and a Duron
> 800 mhz machine both running XP. The computer it wouldn't install
> on is a dinosaur...P2 400, Win 98.
>
> Any idea what is preventing the patch from installing correctly?

What error message do you get?

> #2: In multiplayer play, I don't qiute understand the point. Once
> the host exits the game, how do you get back to where you were? Do
> you have to start fresh with each and every multiplayer game? I
> understand the characters keep their skills and such, but isn't the
> basis of the game a continuing adventure. I hope this isn't a
> stupid questoin.

That is what waypoints are for. In every new game all the monsters
respawn, so you just skip the areas you have been to already unless
you want to kill the monsters there over and over again.

 

[Linus]

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On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 06:37:12 +0100, "Gundemarie Scholz"
<spamyousilly@inbox.ru> wrote:

>Linus wrote:
>> I just bought Diablo 2 tonight. Bought it in hopes of running
>> networked play in my house on my 3 computers.
>>
>> Having some problems:
>>
>> #1: I installed the 1.09b upgrade patch successfully on 2 of the 3
>> computers. The 2 that it worked on were a Celeron 2.66 and a Duron
>> 800 mhz machine both running XP. The computer it wouldn't install
>> on is a dinosaur...P2 400, Win 98.
>>
>> Any idea what is preventing the patch from installing correctly?
>
>What error message do you get?
>
No error message. If I run the patch from the downloadable .exe file
when I execute the screen just goes blank and nothing happens. If I
try to do the update through battlenet, it goes through the download
process and afterward the whole Diablo program just closes once it
starts trying to do the patch.

I think my Windoze might be corrrupt. I may need to do a fresh
install.

 

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Linus wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 06:37:12 +0100, "Gundemarie Scholz"
> <spamyousilly@inbox.ru> wrote:
>
> > Linus wrote:
> > > #1: I installed the 1.09b upgrade patch successfully on 2 of
> > > the 3 computers. The 2 that it worked on were a Celeron 2.66
> > > and a Duron 800 mhz machine both running XP. The computer it
> > > wouldn't install on is a dinosaur...P2 400, Win 98.
> > >
> > > Any idea what is preventing the patch from installing correctly?
> >
> > What error message do you get?
> >
> No error message. If I run the patch from the downloadable .exe
> file when I execute the screen just goes blank and nothing happens.
> If I try to do the update through battlenet, it goes through the
> download process and afterward the whole Diablo program just closes
> once it starts trying to do the patch.

Have you had a look at the event log to see if there are error
messages there?
My Computer -> Rightclick -> Administration -> System -> Events
(or similar, this is just a rough translation from German)