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Article #544039Re: Greetings, Old Friends
From: TheGunslinger
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2010 20:12
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2010 20:12
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You will need patch 1.13 and Administrator privileges to play under Windows 7. Check Blizzard support site for dretails. On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 02:49:54 -0700 (PDT), "Chucky@Work" <st.chucky@gmail.com> wrote: >On 23 maalis, 11:26, "Chucky@Work" <st.chu...@gmail.com> wrote: > >Follow-up: > >> 1) Are there new patches out beyond 1.10 to deal with Windows 7 and >> other issues, and where could I find them? > >In accordance with the Just Fucking Google It treaty of 2004, I just >fucking Googled it and found the 1.12a patch for download from >Blizzard. I suppose I can always run this, at least, to get a bit of a >new lease on the original version of the game. > >I also found a fix for whatever problem the game might be >experiencing, although as I said there was no problem with gameplay >for me so far and the incompatibility does not seem to have stopped >the game form working. Still: > >*paste* > >--- > >If you want to run D2 in windowed mode you have to right click your >Diablo 2 shortcut, go to properties, and in the "Target:" field you >should see something like > >"C:\Program Files (x86)\Diablo II\Diablo II.exe" > >Just add > >-w > >to the end of that (after the quotes and with a space between) so it >looks like > >"C:\Program Files (x86)\Diablo II\Diablo II.exe" -w > >--- > >*unpaste* > >This may fix the problem. > >It does not, however, necessarily help me with the Chaos Empire issue. >The last known installation of Chaos Empire I used insisted on the >1.10 patch of Lord of Destruction. > >> 2) Chaos Empire mod no longer installs properly, even with the 1.10 >> patch, and it is probably to do with this same incompatibility. Is >> there a new Chaos Empire mod for Windows 7 OS, and where might I find >> that? > >I looked for this too, but couldn't find much even on the Chaos Empire >home page. It looks like I need to register to look at their FAQ and >downloads and things. Can anyone testify as to the effectiveness of >this mod in this day and age? > > > > >Cheers and beers, > >- Chucky
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!border1.nntp.ams3.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams2.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!transit4.hitnews.eu!feeder2.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!209.197.12.242.MISMATCH!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!post02.iad!post01.iad!not-for-mail From: TheGunslinger <mikiesrunsbaal.sec@sbcglobal.net> Newsgroups: alt.games.diablo Subject: Re: Greetings, Old Friends Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2010 13:12:16 -0700 Organization: UseNetServer - www.usenetserver.com X-Complaints-To: abuse@usenetserver.com Message-ID: <619e065l7l0koqu883t0nimphk346mvhld@4ax.com> References: <4e2379a3-61c0-40ce-8f15-281f85ea70bf@z3g2000yqz.googlegroups.com> <7c12ddfe-e187-4f40-bed2-c0bb917d5857@g11g2000yqe.googlegroups.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 MIME-Version: 1.0 Lines: 69 Bytes: 3018 X-Original-Bytes: 2963 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit