techn ical issue, help

[weird]

help please

i am on a laptop that has been running diablo 2 for about 10 months, i then try and start up the game normally as i do all the time yesterday and to my surprise i get a direct draw error...."could not start the game client" if i remember correctly. so i uninstall and reinstall and now i am getting error 22 and vid test says that this computer cannot run diablo 2

but as i said before...i have been running it before now on this computer

so this laptop is not the best seeing as it is a work computer and not designed for games, the only chan ge that has been made between the last time i could play and this time is i uninstalled utorrent....which should have no impact at all


i have reinstalled display drivers (intel mobile 945gm chipset.....as i said crappy onboard card, but nonetheless i have run d2 and d2x before now sucessfully) reinstall did not work....so what do i do?

sorry if this is in wrong place but seeing as it is not a bug specific to 1.11 i thought i shouldnt put it there, and there isnt really a 'technical only' thread...uinless i missed it



but yeah any and all help is greatly appreciated

[krischan]

Welcome to the forums !

Try reinstalling your gfx card driver. Important: Don't just install it over the old one. Uninstall it before, then reboot, then reinstall (or similar). Check the page of the gfx card vendor for details about the installation.

[weird]

k thanks, i will try that and let you know if it works or not

[ffejrxx]

also run dxdiag and do the tests (dddraw and d3d) on the display tab

if they give errors then its a driver problem like krischan said

[Mursilis]

One other thing to try is run the Video test for DII and choose 2D intead of 3D.