22-04-2001 15:55									#1
	Installing Diablo 2 Support Apolyton, buy Galactic Civilizations: Deluxe Edition

With my new system up and running, I thought I'd reinstall Diablo 2. Trouble is, I can't. Every time I try the computer freezes to a black screen while reading either from the Play disk or the Cinematics disk. I've tried a friends set of CD's as well, so it's not my CD's that are the problem.

If it's any use to know, my system is a Thunderbird 800 with 256Mb RAM and a Creative 32Mb Geforce 2 GTS. Most other components were in the old system, where it installed perfectly. Anyone have any ideas?

	22-04-2001 19:00									#2
	Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

It sounds like the old 'CD-ROM incompatability' bug to me. Did D2 work before? Have you patched it since?

If you are not going on Battlenet, you may want to try one of the earlier patches (My system got smacked upside the head by the 1.04 patch, IIRC, but the 1.04b patch corrected that); if you are on Battlenet, e-mail Blizzard and hope they get the next patch out soon.

Also, try diabloii.net--they usually have the best info (and forums) for all things Diablo.

	22-04-2001 20:47									#3
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I know all about CD-ROM incompatability - how some drives won't read some CD's for no apparent reason - so I've tried the CD's in both my reader and my writer to no avail.

I think we may be misunderstanding each other here. It's not that I can't play, it's that I can't install. It has worked before, it doesn't currently exist on my hard-drive patched or unpatched and a patch ain't gonna help. I'll try that site though, thanks.

	23-04-2001 20:18									#4
	Support Apolyton, pre-order Civilization IV

Unfortunately, nothing on diabloii.net. Anyone have any further ideas?