D2 wont even start when i download it...

[Guest]

i downloaded the full version of diablo 2 and restarted my computer,
then when i try to play it it says" check to see if play disc is
in then press restart" but the play disc is in, fully clean, no
scraches. any help will be apreciated.

by 'downloaded' he means copied off the disc <small>-Rapmaster</small>


[This message has been edited by Rapmaster (edited July 29, 2001).]

 

[Rapmaster]

Your problems are related to Diablo 2's copy protection (which even stops some legitimate users with certain CD drives from using the game)

when you say you copied it, what files did you copy? you really only need to run the install program but sometimes copying some of the mpq files or game.exe to your HD can get you around this problem...

what kind of CD drive do you have? Is it a DVD drive or a CDR drive? They seem to have the most problems like this

Make sure you go to Blizzard's site and download the latest patch... it has a fix for this, which works for some people

[This message has been edited by Rapmaster (edited July 29, 2001).]

 

[Guest]

ok. i went to get the pach but it never worked. the kind of cd drive i have i do not know but its not DVD. then you said i can copy files from the cd?
which ones are they? (im not too good with computers)

 

[Rapmaster]

you can try copying the game.exe and d2music.mpq file from the CD

this will take a lot of disc space and it probably won't help you anyway, now that I think about it

 

[Guest]

so the pach is the only way to fix the game?

 

[Rapmaster]

if you have a legal copy of the game, you either need to get a different CD drive (and hope that one works) or wait for Blizzard to fix it, which they have been trying to do since the game came out