Diablo 2 Direct Draw issue...

I just got Diablo 2 last night, and when I try to run it under Win2K, 95% of the time it won't initialize and it gives me an error saying that it had an error initializing Direct Draw. Also, when I run the video check it says that I can't run Diablo 2 on my system. My specs are as follows...

AMD Athlon 1.2
EPoX 8K7A+
Elsa Gladiac GeForce2 MX

I was wondering if you guys thought whether or not the newest updates would help me, I kinda need to get it working tonight though, as I'm going to a LAN in 2 hours and we're probably gonna play it a little bit. One other note, I can get it working fine in Win98SE...I might just run it in that tonight...but I don't have my NIC working correctly on that OS. But I could probably get it going though... Let me know what you all think. Thanks in advance!

retro

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CJ Resident Wizard

It's Time to toss the Dice...

Update DirectX and your display drivers would be my first bet.

You can get the latest nVidia drivers at nVidia :

http://www.nvidia.com

and the latest DirectX at :

http://www.microsoft.com/directx

Hopefully that solves your D2 issues. https://www.sharkyforums.com/images/.../2005/06/5.gif

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Duke of the OC Crusaders

System Specifications.

Sharky SETI@Home

Well, I already had the latest Nvidia drivers in 2k, but I was running ancient drivers in '98SE. Thus far, the only thing that'll work is '98SE...I installed the new patches to no avail. So I think I'm going to reinstall DX and see if that does anything.

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CJ Resident Wizard

It's Time to toss the Dice...

well, just put DX 8.1 on and it didn't make any difference, so I'm at a loss here.

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CJ Resident Wizard

It's Time to toss the Dice...