From: SkateRat
Subject: Diablo and Win 2K

Hello Gheed

I need some serious help. I an running Win 2k with a Athlon 800, 128 megs mem, ASUS A7V mother board, SB LIve Value voodoo 4 4500 vid card. I have all updated drivers for evcerything and no conflics in Device manager. Everytime I go to play Diablo 2 my computer reboots. I have unistalled and reinstalled the game lots of times and even spent 2hrs with blizzard tech support. CAN you please help me. Star Craft still plays fine and so does Diablo 1. but Diablo 2 will not run it reboots my system like I hit the reset button. PLEASE HELP ME. I wana play my 54 Necro and 43 barb and 28 Pal 22 sorc and 15 Amazon. Please Oh please help

Thanks

Mike
aka SkateRat in B.net

SkateRat,

You're in a bad situation! What I would recommend doing is double-checking that you do have the latest drivers for everything in your computer. If you have already done that, there are few things left to check. One of the most tricky and overlooked problems is current BIOS software, for the motherboard. Check the motherboard's manufacturer for any updates to your current BIOS version, and that may just fix your problem! Otherwise, I couldn't think of what is causing this to happen.

From: Krog
Subject: Backing Up Characters

Gheed,

I have read in many strategie guides it is possible to back up your character in the single player game. How can I back up and restore my character and are there any possible side effects?

PS. I had to pawn my full plate mail to make up for all my gambling!

-Krog

Krog,

All you need to do to back up a character (an open character) is to copy its .D2S file. These are located in the /save/ directory under the main Diablo II directory. Each D2S file is named for the character, so if you have a Barbarian named "KuteKitty," the file you would ned to copy is kutekitty.d2s. But, you ask, where do I copy this file to? Place it in a seperate directory, seperate from the Diablo II directories. Put it in a folder that you will remember, possibly even just on your desktop. If you accidently "mess up" your character some how, just copy this file (from the directory you placed it in), and paste it back into the /Diablo II/save/ folder, overwriting the one currently located there. You will end up with the items, character level, skill point distribution, etc. that you had when you backed up your character.

As for your financial troubles, maybe you just need to gamble at my shop some more... [muffled laughter]

From: Peter
Subject: rings of your store

Hey!
what's up. I'm playing diablo and I think the price of a ring is too high.I could buy a million potions at that price.I dont even want to think about the tax!!

Everyone's entitled to their opinions, but I must say that the beautiful rings available at my stores are greatly underappreciated! These priceless items with incredible effects like... umm... +1 to light radius are quite the treasure, and you can always give them to your spouse or partner as a gift of love!* And as for tax, that gives me a wonderful idea... I'll increase all prices to compensate for the new "Gheed Fund" tax. Thanks for the idea!

* The rings do not have love power.

From: Seriously Pissed off Gamer
Subject: F***ed up Character/Account

HIYA!!!!!!

1st of all you kick ass!!!!

I gamble all the time and you seem to always give me a bonesnap when I gamble for it. :) anyways,

my account is really f***ed up, if i find an item and it says that it has like cold damage and then my friend sees it and its a TOTALLY diffrent attributes and I can only use items that I pick up of the ground after a monster or chest, but when I get an item from somebody and equip it i get kicked off, and last but definetly not least is that I sometimes (ok, often)get items when the durability is like 67 out of 65. Is there ANY way to solve this because the ^!#@%%(^&$*^# over at blizzard arent answering my e-mail and wont do ANYTHING about it.

Thnx,
Seriously Pissed of Gamer

I am shocked and appalled that you are so lucky with gambling at my shop! :-) Please start gambling for the best armor available to you, so that I can buy another yacht... er... donate the proceeds to the starving children of the world. As for the rest of your e-mail, it's a bit too incoherent for a normal human to understand. So, your Battle.Net account has Cold Damage, but when your friend looks at it, it is totally different. Huh? You can only use items that are from the ground after killing a monster or opening a chest, and you get kicked off Battle.Net when you equip any items? Huh? You often get items that have durability amounts over their maximum durability? Huh? Well, the one part that I can answer is what you should do: Calm down, get some psychiatric help, and then cut your computer into tiny squares and sell them on E-Bay. More information can be found here.



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