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I have experience this when I was in the Beta Stress Test on Diablo 2.
Running Video Test freeze my screen and all I have to see is the 2 white bar
on the top & bottom screen.

Solution:

Use the latest drivers from 3Dfx 3.03  by downloading from this link
http://www.3dfxgamers.com/drivers/voodoo2/voodoo2_win9x.stm
but you will lose your very nice Creative Labs Control Panel.


"Andreas Nilsen" <andreasd@stud.ntnu.no> wrote in message
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> I've recently bought diablo 2, and was looking forward to try it out with
my
> v2. I ran vidtest, the video detection utility that comes with diablo 2,
and
> sort of expected the card to be detected.
>
> Much to my displeasure, it was not.
>
> Instead, I have to rely on my crappy 2d card, a  S3 TRIOv64-2(775/776).
>
> Reading through the support page on blizzard, it quite clearly states that
> this is a commonly known driver problem, due to a bad install of the
driver
> or corrupt driver. So, I removed every trace of the old driver I had (inf
> files, dll's and stuff connected to it), downloaded the latest driver from
> creative and after having spent an hour, installed. The result was the
same.
>
> I saw that the driver hadnt been updated since 1999, so I looked at the
3dfx
> driver which diabloii.net recommended. Not much surprisingly, that didn't
> work either.
>
> But both of these drivers worked nicely in all the other 3d-enchanted
games
> I have. they even *gasp* made ultima 9 work kinda smoothly!
>
> So, I ask - anyone here know what to do except trying to reformat the
> machine and reistall windows? I'd really hate to do that as I have a lot
of
> important data on it.
>
> Andreas Nilsen
>
>

Perhaps I am blind, but I cannot see any version 3.03 on that page. Only
3.02, which I have already tested :(

Andreas Nilsen wrote:

> Perhaps I am blind, but I cannot see any version 3.03 on that page. Only
> 3.02, which I have already tested :(

    Hello there,

     I had a lot of trouble with getting diablo 2 to work also, but the
video test seen all my video cards including V2. I am using the lastest
driver for V2 from creative labs website called 3dbvw95.exe; windows version
2.18; dated 3/19/99. And reinstall directx drivers too...after you update
this.

    See if you have that one installed, Diablo 2 works great now. Also,
check your sound card drivers too, update them, could help too. Diablo
crashed on my computer after making a funny sound and I got message stating
- Server error - ever though I wasn't playing on the net !

    Hope this helps, Dale.

---------------------------------New Search
Started---------------------------------
Found Glide Driver:  C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\glide3x.dll
Version of File:  3.03.00.0670

Found Glide Driver:  C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\fxmemmap.vxd
Version of File:  4.11.01.0015

Found Glide Driver:  C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\glide2x.dll
Version of File:  2.56.00.0459

Found Glide Driver:  C:\WINDOWS\glide2x.ovl
Version of File:  2.56.00.0458

------------------------------------Search
Ended-----------------------------------


"Andreas Nilsen" <andreasd@stud.ntnu.no> wrote in message
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> Perhaps I am blind, but I cannot see any version 3.03 on that page. Only
> 3.02, which I have already tested :(
>
>
>
>

Wow. I tried both approaces, the driver with 3.03 didn't do much good, i'm
afraid.

However, the 3dbvw95.exe driver did it's trick - AFTER i had reinstalled
direct-x.

That might just have been my problem all the time.

Only problem existing now is that the mouse is still locked in 640x480 mode,
which unfortunately is the resolution I use normally. (old monitor, have to
resize screen every time I go to 800x600 - which looks blurred and resizing
is a mess, or I can install univbe to force "vertical ... something", but
that's even more mess). So, unless I  change the screen res. every time I
start diablo, i really cannot press buttons beyond that 640x480 border.
*sigh*

Perhaps I just ought to buy a new monitor - 10 years is a long time to live
for a monitor.

Thanks a lot for the help, guys.

Andreas Nilsen