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  1. Rinnok

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    I discovered this Server only a few days ago so i tried it and the first install went fine and i was able to play and i did a few sessions, meaning i closed the game several times and restarted without failure. except for some odd color issues un the menu everything looked great. No D2 had been installed on this machine before a few days ago. The second day i tried the maphack that was provided by this site, that's when problems started. When i opened the launcher a webpage opened and told me a cheat had been discovered, wasnt able to get in the game. well okay, but as far as i was enlightened MH was allowed on this server since it's even provided. so i removed it and then i was able to get into the game menu, but i was unable to connect to the server and got the ingame message. unable to connect...or something. Since then i removed and reinstalled the game 3 times over, tried to remove reg and re add,... no succes yet. today without doing anything different, the game won't even launch anymore and says gameguard has stopped working. APPCRASH. So its getting worse.

    Yes, i'm doing the drill everytime, i install the provided files from the site in the right order, i do operate and run files as administrator as required.
    My system is running on win7. It had worked, so it should be able to today but i don't know what changed after the maphack that screwed everything up.

    Can you guys tell me what i can do to resolve this, or do you need more specific information?
    I'm not a pc guru so i'll require exact info to follow. Thanks.
     
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    Hello. The cheat message was most likely a false positive, have you tried running the game again after that message or you straight removed it afterwards? Also what maphack have you downloaded exactly? Almost everyone uses a maphack and even though it's an old 3rd party cheat tool that may not be fully compatible with the game such issues are usually just isolated as it should not block your connection.
    Both the odd color issues and the unable to connect messages are client related, I suggest checking D2VidTst for the color issue (don't check the reduced color option inside the compatibility mode either) and your antivirus/firewall for the unable to connect message because that means something is either blocking you from connecting to the realm or the realm address is wrong.

    Remove your current game client and follow the instructions provided below:
     
  3. Rinnok

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    Alright Installing it this way worked. I guess the registry and or other foldername did the trick.
    At least i can play again : ) Thank you for the fast reply.

    but...
    -I'd like to play in fullscreen mode, and i saw there's also a glide thingy to get better quality when doing so.
    -As for the maphack, i downloaded the Sting Maphack from the site here, so i don't know better alternatives, i aslo haven't been able to use it so i don't know what's best.

    How do i proceed without messing it up again?
     
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    I'm not sure how you messed up really, something else must have happend. Download the integrated maphack from here and you should be good, it will start together with the game.
    In order to play in full screen mode then create a shortcut of your game.exe or edit the existing shortcut and remove the -w parameter which stands for window mode from shortcut target. Alternatively you could use glide, however glide and maphack don't get that well together.
     
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    Alrighty, the maphack works but starting the game fullscreen doesn't.
    it gives me a window stating :
    Exception Processing Message oxc0000135 Parameters
    0x000007FEFD7819C 0x000007FEFD7819C
    0x000007FEFD7819C 0x000007FEFD7819C

    and that's it. doesnt work with the shortcut to game, nor the edited existing shortcut.
     
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    Never seen this message before, doesn't seem to be game related at all. Did you run game.exe directly? What's wrong with running the game in window mode anyway?
     
  7. Rinnok

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    Well i have a pretty large native resolution, which makes the maximum 800x600 res a really tiny window. i cant seem to resize or stretch it either. so playing the game like this is pretty intense for my eyes : )

    I tried directly, and i tried shortcuts from the desktop too for all executables.
     
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    Give glidewrapper a try, although running game.exe directly from your game folder should start the game in full screen by default.
     
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    This time, placing the glide dll in the folder made all my problems go away. I did nothing else. Its unclear what the issue was, yet i'm now able to play in either fullscreen or windowed mode but at larger resolution. Works both through shortcuts and directly from folder. Thank you for your input.
     
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