D2 L.O.D. Problems, help please!

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I need help badly with a couple Diablo 2 L.O.D. problems. First off I have a AMD Athlon 1.4Ghz, 768MB ram, 60 gig hard drive and an Nvidia 32MB video card. My biggest concern is when I am in a game, I try typing and I have to deal with horrible lag, many times I end up disconnected from the game. I simply hit enter, start typing, it lags almost immediatly and I'm lucky if I dont get dropped. I know that this has nothing to do with my modem(56 k) because the same exact thing happens in single player. Another problem that I have is I get an error frequently, something like unhandled access violation. When that comes up D2 closes. Also I have reinstalled diablo and the expansion 2 times, defragmented my computer 2 times, got the latest video card drivers, I have DirectX 8.1, and I dont know what to do next. Any help will be appreciated, thanks
 
Zulli85 use this program. and give the information there. Copy and paste it.

Just sytem info--not all the software info--include everything up to local drive volumes--you dont need anything past that.
 
Windows XP Professional (build 2600)
1400 megahertz AMD Athlon
60.04 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
45.58 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

ATAPI CD-R/RW 12X8X32 [CD-ROM drive]
CREATIVE DVD-ROM DVD1241E [CD-ROM drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]

SAMSUNG SV6004H (60.06 GB) [Hard drive] -- drive
SNC302EEH
System Serial Number: April74
Asset Tag: SNC302EEH
Chassis Serial Number: April74

Board: SNC302EEH
Bus Clock: 133 megahertz
BIOS: Award Software International, Inc. 6.00 PG 06/13/2001
768 Megabytes Installed Memory


This is everything upto and including local drive volumes
 
At first I thought it may be a swapfile probelm but you seem to have plenty of freespace on C:drive. Make sure that any of your pci and agp cards aren't sharing IRQs, each should have there own irq. Also make sure you have the latest via drivers if you have a via chipset.
The error you get is a common error in LOD and there isn't a particular cure for it. It maybe ram related or a coding probelm in D2. Try removing a stick of ram and see if the error continues.( You need to swap each stick around, you may have a mismatched or problematic stick).

Also with that much ram in your system try some of the ram tweaks in the Tweakers Sanatorium section. It may give your system a performance boost.
 
How can I make sure that any of my pci and agp cards aren't sharing IRQs? Thanks for the info. Also where is the Tweakers Sanatorium? Searched for it with no luck
 
To check for IRQ sharing, open the Device Manager. In Windows 2000/XP, right-click on My Computer, click on Properties, click on the Hardware tab, then click on Device Manager.

Click on VIEW and select Resources by Type. Click the + next to Interrupt Request (IRQ). This will show all of the IRQs in use in Win 2000/XP.

Tweakers Sanatorium
 
Okay, Ive located the IRQ. All are different except for a bunch that have the IRQ of 3. They are Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System, Creative SB Live! Value (WDM), Lucent Win Modem, NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro, VIA AC'97 Audio Controller (WDM), VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller, and VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller. Im assuming that I should give the NVIDIA a seperate IRQ, but I'll wait for your suggestions. Also why are there 2 of the same thing? Thanks for the info
 
You need to get the modem, sound, and video off that IRQ and onto their own seperate ones.
Don't worry about the USB/ACPI stuff.
 
What is the path in the RegEdit to get to my video, sound, and modem IRQ's?
 
Read above--you dont get to IRQs thru regedit. Try switching the cards around in there slots, until you get each card on a separate irq.

Also some bios setups allow you to assign irqs.
 
I've heard, and I think Rapmaster posted on another thread, that with XP, shared IRQ's are ok? In fact, that XP will keep re-sharing them, even if you move the actual cards around, because XP handles the swapping, and won't do the things that usually cause problems with shared IRQs... any truth to this??

Edited to say that it was Rapmaster, and the post is here:
http://www.the-group.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5752 , in case anyone's interested.
 
I was about to tty and put my vid card into a different slot when I noticed there is only one that it can go into...the one that its in. I will try moving the others around though. After observing the same thing on my friends computer, I swapped video cards with him and I now have a 3dfx 64 mb voodoo card. No change in the problem, which was expected. Any more ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
 
Check my article on irqs in the tweakers section too. APCI friend or foe--Not all XP does this--it depends if you loaded XP with acpi or as a standard mode pc--its the acpi that puts all the devices under one irq. Yes in most cases acpi sharing is great and doesnt cause probelms, but for some who are taxing their system with a high end game, sound card, video card, and then a modem-nic card--then cramming this thru one irq--think about it.
 
Some weird stuff happened with my comp in the past day...I tried switching around some cards to see if they would get different IRQ's. They didnt the first time, then I tried again and XP would refuse to load. Im like oh boy. XP would start to load, and freeze every time. Tried to go into safe mode and do the system restore. Yet again XP would not load. I ended up formatting my computer unfortunatly, there was no way around it. Tried everything I could think of but the comp would continue to freeze when booting up. Everything is fine now, when I type in D2 it doesnt lag anymore.:D I checked the IRQ's and they are still the same, any ideas what was causing it before?
 
K, the type problem thing is gone but I still get a ton of lag, just lost another hardcore char because of it. I'm there happily killing hephasto on nightmare when all of a sudden that damned screen comes up, "YOUR VALOR WILL BE REMEMBERED." Ive had it with all this lag im getting, it happens like every 20-30 seconds or so. Everythng stops moving, then 5-10 seconds later I see piles of monsters dead all of a sudden. Any ideas why this is happening to me all the time?
 
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