Another “Fix”
It seems the Diablo 2 CDs aren’t playing totally fair. A reader who wrote in to berate me for my jibe about having substandard CDRoms said his game more or less fixed itself.
Don’t give me this crap from about buying a better CD-ROM. I have a Toshiba DVD player and a Hi-val/Kenwood 72x drive. Both of these had trouble. I tried to install with the Kenwood, couldn’t. Installed with my DVD drive, it wouldn’t run the game, so, I re-installed the Kenwood and it ran. This is definitely something with their CD’s. No other game I’ve ever installed or ran gave me any problems.
I’m afraid he’s right - these problems inevitably mean Blizzard has missed something in their CD authentication code.
If none of this is helping you, I have news of another possible (very effective) workaround which just may answer your problems. I want to check it out before I post anything, so stay tuned (Thanks Jon).
posted by monty · at 11:07 pm · filed under News