windows vista and battle.net help please!!

[estcourt]

can anyone help! just recently purchased diablo 1 to re-live the good times i had with it when i was younger. however i cant get it to work on battlenet. ive got windows vista. i read up online and have downloaded v1.09 patch, but ever time i try to install it, it says 'this program is used to upgrade programs through battle.net and does not need to be run'. However i get a pre patch text document appear which says:

Blizzard PrePatch v2.23 compiled on Mar 17 2000
This program patches Diablo retail version

Log created at 7:23 pm on 10/29/2008

RESULT: Prepatch successful

When i go back into Diablo 1 its still version 1.00. Ive tried uninstalling diablo and trying it again but the same thing happens.

I would really appreciate if anyone could help me????

Thanks

Jacob

[estcourt]

thanks for the help people!! anyway finally got it sorted. if anyone has the same problems go into the properties of the patch and change the compatibility to below

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/using-windows-vista-compatibility-mode/

its installed the patch and updated it to v1.09 and i can use battle.net!

[estcourt]

i have further problems!!! whenever i try and connect to a game its tells me im unable to join as my latency is too high?!?! Does anyone have any solutions?

Thanks

[Dantoshou]

im gettin that too :crazyeyes: not fkin fun! i want to play n complete it online before i do diablo 2!

[rCt Arbitur]

I got my own computer last week and its a top notch vista, i guess i will get the same problem when i get on :(

[The Sandcat]

Lag is something your ISP (service provider) can sort out, hopefully. It depends to some extent on how fast your connection is.

[Devil Squid]

I have xp so will i get problems?!? ------------------------------- Peace, Squid

[xnn]

i've recently experience the lag too high problem. Since battlenet was designed while people were on 26k modems if you have broadband then your connection speed is clearly not the issue. From what i've heard firewall and router settings make it so the game can't communicate properly with your computer. I can play b.net just fine in a game by myself, however if i try to join one with a friend it gives me the error.