Problem with full screen in d2 & sc

[YourXero]

Hi guys, i've recently upgraded my system to a hd4850 graphics card...
And one really annoying problem is that it cant play my favorite games, wich are D2 and SC in full screen.

The problem is when i turn on full screen my monitor goes black and the LED starts blinking (while the game runs fine in the background, i can hear the sound and all)

Now in Starcraft BW it helps to wait like 1-4 min and it WILL eventually turn on and work, but in diablo i guess it works but you have to wait something up to 10-20 min for the screen to turn on.

This problem only occurs with these two games, have NO problem playing COD4, AoC, Crysis and all other high spec games.

[ThulRasha]

I have heard this before, but don't have the problem myself.
Perhaps you can find a solution in the Diablo 2 Bug Reports forum.

[Manatrode]

Same thing happened to me a while back . What type of Graphic Drivers did you download? Or did you download any? If you did, probably you downloaded a one that doesnt fit with your Graphic Card.

[knightmawko]

I had that problem once with an old D2 disk, but I switched to a downloaded copy from the blizzard store, just put in the CD key and download and run, and it worked just fine.

[TalRasha]

Two things you can try:

1. Uninstall your video card drivers, then reinstall latest for your specific card.
2. Run the game in compatibility mode for an earlier operating system.

[kavlor]

Ive got same card and have had times when D2 just froze for a good while or the screens gone black ,updating my drivers seems to have solved it but it seems a random thing anyway.By the way the Catalyst control centre was crashing on boot up also but got that fixed too.

[Equalizer]

I had that problem. If you are using vista try clicking Properties on the Diablo 2 shortcut on your desktop, then click the compatibility tab and check the "run this program in compatibility mode for:" box and choose windows xp.

Before you open it, you might want to try and right click the shortcut and click "run as administrator" might help aswell. That is what i did.

One more thing that might help is going to properties again on the d2 shortcut, where it says Target: "... /Diablo II.exe" add to the end of it " -w -ns -skiptobnet"

Thats " -w -ns -skiptobnet"

That cancels in game sound like that annoys you when in chat and talking to friends on skype and its all they hear :P and it runs it in windowed mode, imo its alot better i can watch movies and stuff while playing/mfing. Also when you open d2, it skips the intro with the cinematic stuff, and goes straight to bnet login.

Edit: If it makes any diffirence im using ATI Radeon 3470 HD in a lap top, got same one in my desktop.

Hope this helps!

Equalizer.

[skolapper]

just did a clean install of windows 7 and FSX. On windowed mode is working great but when I got to full screen screen goes back and forth between a small window and a black screen, then the small window satys on still showing the desktop. Full screen wont work

I installed the latest nvidea drivers, fsx sp1 and sp2
video card is 9800GTX with a dualhead2go, native resolution is set the same on windows and fsx

Thank you

[Rashiminos]

Run the game in 2d mode and make sure it's up to date.

[sunkenfaith]

i didnt get this problem on my end.