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Invisible Character in Single Player
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Posted by: Draggon
I just bought and installed Diablo II today. No matter which character I choose to play, the character is invisible on the game screen. All NPC's and monsters show up just fine, and the game plays just fine, but I can't see my own character. Any suggestions?
Posted by: Canis Lupus
It may have something to do with your video card/drivers. Do you only encounter the problem when you are in Direct3D mode? What video card are you using? My guess is either a TNT2 or a GeForce. If so, be sure to download and install the latest detonator drivers from NVidia's website:
http://www.nvidia.com/products.nsf/...detonator3.html
If your video card is not an Nvidia card, just make sure you have the latest drivers. Also check if your character is invisible in DirectDraw 2D mode.
It may also help to uninstall and reinstall the game. Post back on your progress.
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Posted by: Ion Silverbolt
This has been a problem caused by certain CD-ROMS incorrectly reading the CD. Here's some things you can try..- If you're using a CDRW drive, check for updated firmware for the drive from the manufacturers website. Also check for a Firmware update if you're using a CD-ROM that uses the TrueX multibeam technology such as the Kenwood CD-ROM drives.
- Delete the "d2char.mpq" file from your Diablo II install folder. Then copy the "d2char.mpq" file from your Diablo II play disk into your Diablo II install folder. If the files corrupted, this may fix it. If the file doesn't exist on your hard drive, try a full install of the game if possible. This file gets read better off the hard drive than it does on the CD-ROM drive.
- If you're using an AMD, ALi,VIA, or SiS chipset, updating your IDE busmastering drivers may help address this read issue with your CD-ROM drive.
- If it still acts up, try reinstalling DirectX from www.microsoft.com/directx
If nothing above helps you, post back with your system specs including drives, memory, motherboard or name brand of the PC, and processor type you have and we can help you further.
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Posted by: Draggon
Canis & Ion,
I wanted to post a followup and thank you for your helpful and speedy replies. I also wanted to iron out some details.
I am using a Kenwood 52x TrueX drive. It's an awesome CD-ROM drive, except of course for Diablo II. Kenwood's site blames Blizzard's "copy protection scheme" for the unreadability, but offers a firmware upgrade for users to try. Well, I've tried several times to upgrade the firmware, and it just won't "take". I boot to a clean DOS environment, run the firmware updater, it seems to do it's thing and tells me to reboot. Well, it didn't solve the problem, so I tried running it again; several times in fact. It keeps telling me my existing firmware version is 5.00 and it is upgrading it to 5.01, but the change never seems to happen. Anyone familiar with this problem? I'm waiting on an email back from Kenwood's Tech Support to see if they can help here.
Anyway, my video card is the Voodoo 3 3000. I downloaded and upgraded to the latest drivers. My character was invisible whether I used Glide or DirectDraw 2D, it didn't matter. I also downloaded and upgraded to the latest Bus Master drivers for my mainboard as suggested. I also reinstalled DirectX 7.0a as suggested. Nothing worked.
Do you know how I finally solved the problem? Well, solved is not accurate, I basically found a workaround. I have a basic 2-computer network here at home. I put the Diablo CD in my 2nd computer, which has an old TEAC 12x CD-ROM, and installed it onto my computer through the network. It took forever, but the install went okay.
My system is homebuilt with an AMD K6-3, 400Mhz processor, 128MB RAM, a TYAN S1590 mainboard with a VIA MVP3 chipset. I would sure like to get the 52x working right, who knows what game will have problems next time? Warcraft III? That would suck.
Again, thanks for the replies, I'm off to play now. Let me know if you can think of anything else I should try.
Draggon
Posted by: Ion Silverbolt
I don't think many other games use the exact copy protection scheme that Blizzard used. Really the blame should go on Kenwood for not adhering to industry standards.
A lot of other CD-ROMS don't adhere to industry standards either however. It usually is never a problem though unless some sort of copy protection is used.
I'm guessing they don't use the same copy protection method on later game titles. But who knows. http://www.opentechsupport.net/forums/smile.gif
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