Contact Blizzard technical support if problem persists.”Īll this dancing around, and not only are my saved files still not usable, the bloody expansion pack has down-versioned them for me. WTF?!! That file is all over the place, in three different locations on the hard drive, and one on the CD. Right, then I’ve got the patch sitting right here on my drive, and away we go… Nowhere. OK, so Blizzard’s instructions at this point are to to load the v1.09 patch (your instincts were right in line, bafaa). I went ahead and created a new character, and sonuvagun if version 1.07 wasn’t displayed in the upper right corner of the screen.
WTF?! Observant soul that I am, I had failed to notice this previously. It seems the process of loading the LOD expansion actually downgrades the version of the characters to v1.07. I dug around on Blizzard’s site some more, and found a topic that seems to be aplicable. How the hell do I get these saved characters visible in LOD again?Īfter downloading and reinstalling DirectX, still the problem persists. Next I tried using the “save” files in a clean, newly installed, patched Diablo II w/no expansion. I even tried copying just those files off of tape, and still, no go.
Now, here’s the problem: While I’ve got a fully patched (v1.08) D2: LOD installation, I can’t see any of my old characters, even though their files are still present in the \Program files\DiabloII\Save directory. OK, It’s a pain in the butt, but no problem, I pulled the whole installation, and reloaded it all. I re-installed the expansion, but when I did, I got a “Bad MPQ file: Recomend uninstalling Diablo II and reinstalling” error (I think that was the text, but the “MPQ” might have been some other similar TLA). I replaced the drive, restored from backup, and found that the tape was from before I installed the D2: LOD expansion pack. No, problem, I’ve got a spare drive on the shelf, and a tape backup, so it’s just a little work, right? Wrong. The drive that died, of course, would have to be the one that held my Diablo II game files.
Dead, unrecoverable mechanical failure (Hey, it happens). So, last night, my games computer lost a drive.
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