Diablo II & G400

[Gum]

Been a long while since I posted in this forum...

Juz started playing DiabloII on my system(specs below) and I'm using the good old PD5.52 drivers. However, Diablo II doesn't seem to behave properly and sometimes it causes a total system stall(those that makes you press the "reset" button).

When the game stalls, DiabloII's background sound was still going-on but graphics totally stalled and there was no mouse movement.

Playing EA Sport's FIFA2000 also kicks me back to the desktop occasionally only when using hardware acceleration.

Buggy games or flaky drivers?

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Asus K7M BIOS KM1009, Athlon 750, 256Mb Micron PC100 -8E SDRAM, G400 32Mb DH, IBM 34GXP 13.6, Quantum ST 3.2, Toshiba 32X, HP CDWriter 9100i, Samsung 700IFT, HP Deskjet 710C, SBLive! Value, Altec Lansing ACS56

[Dyre]

Diablo2 problems is definatly the game. I get endless crashes and errors on my G400 system and my GF2 system.

[Grego]

Thats weird I also use pd5.52 and have no problems at all, have u tried turning off eax in Diablo? What happens if u do not use the socalled 3d acceleration but use the Direct draw instead?

Is your system also properly cooled?

Perhaps my suggestions are stupid, but we have rather identical systems so I cant see why u have problems that I do not!!

Grego

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System:
Asus A7V rev. 1.01b
AMD Thunderbird 800@800
SBLive retail with liveware 3.0
Matrox g400 MAX
LG Flatron 795FT 17# monitor
IBM 13.5 GB 7200 hdd
Pioneer 103-s dvdrom
Win98 2nd edition
directx 7.0a
128mb pc133 cas2 Memory Card Technology

[DosFreak]

Never had a prob here with my G400 and the drivers before the latest in NT5.

[antdude]

Yeah, I was having problems with my old DFI motherboard. I think my new ASUS P3B-F motherboard fixed the crashing problems. I used to get random computer lock ups and blue screens of death (especially in Act 2 Dry Hills area).

On the old motherboard, I had to turn off music and environmental sounds to have the computer not crash on me. Try that.

[Bursar]

You've probbaly done this, but it's worth checking...

Have you installed the latest patch for DII?

The last patch was 1.03, and you can get it from:
http://www.blizzard.com/support/diab...on/patch.shtml

[Gum]

Thanx for replies guys!

Will try out suggestions and see if they work.

[vouchat]

Try the newest Matrox driver 6.04. I was having similar issues with the 5.52 driver. After updating to the 6.04, DII is running like silk.

[ChoongLeong]

Hi,

Just my two cents worth.

For the past two months. I have been trying to find out what the hell caused my Diablo II to crash again and again. The system just hang with a 3 second loop of music playing continuously. I tried overclock, underclock, normalclock, increase cooling, disable network card, almost everything. But I still cannot figure out what cause the hang, till I visited the unofficial Diablo II website www.diabloii.net.

My NIC was sharing an IRQ with my SBLive! and SBLive! is a very selfish card. It will not work properly if it has to share IRQ with someone. Hence, I moved my NIC to some other slot and viola!!! I have never had any hangs for two weeks.

Hence, the moral of the story is: If you have SBLive!, throw it away... ehh.. I mean check to see if it share IRQ with any other card. Move either card to somewhere else if it does. My SBLive is in the last PCI (PCI 6) of my A7V and I make sure slot 5 is empty.

Hope this helps.


[This message has been edited by ChoongLeong (edited 03 October 2000).]