Does joining erase battle.net account?

I do still play on bnet and I wanted to know if joining this server would delete those accounts on bnet because I thought I heard that it does for private servers.

 

Was not able to connect. Downloaded the archive, took the contents of the USA folder and copied them to the D2 directory and overwrote that one file.

Added the gateway and tried to run the exes but I get the "D2Loader does not recognize this version of Diablo II. This build is only designed to work with Diablo II v 1.12." error. I tried the fix in the help topic of downloading the d2gfx.dll and putting it in the D2 folder but I still get the error. I don't have time tonight to look at it any more but I'll try again tomorrow. I'm running windows 7 don't know if it's an admin thing cuz D2 normally has to run as admin to work.

 

OK, I assumed 1.13c was the most current patch. Didn't realize it was 1.13d. That must be the mistake, I'll try again.

 

Damn. So I downgraded to 1.13c and it was loading but I was unable to connect to battlenet even though the gateway was set (chosen) to usabattle.net

Say "unable to identify application version". When I quit the game I get that "big error" message so I tried that fix with DEP by adding all the exes in the diablo 2 folder but it didn't work. I feel like I missed a step. Is there a patch to install for your server because I never ran an exe to install a patch for usabattle.net. I just copied all the files from the realm patch archive and put them into the d2 folder.

 

The gateway was correct, I was just shortening it for my reply.

D2 won't let me install it again now that it's installed. I was trying to avoid a re-install but I guess I'll try that next.

 

Did a fresh install and same issue. "unable to identify application version" when I try to join "battlenet" and then "big error" when I quit Diablo.

 

OK I forgot to set the .exe to run as admin after reinstalling. Works now.