Diablo II Demo? Error Message

Hi all,

I have a Medion GeForce4 ti4200 with AGP8x 128MB card installed in my Medion
P4 2.66GB PC with DX9.0b and 768MB of RAM. OS is WinXP Home with the latest
updates from MS.

I downloaded and tried to run the demo for DiabloII, and it only gets as far
as the graphics test. It then tells me it can't find a supported mode? The
monitor I've got only does 800x600, but will do 32-bit color. I have a
feeling it is a setting somehwere, because this system seems like it should
run this game without a prolbem.

Any ideas what I could try to get it to run? I'm not really hip to all the
tweaks and things, so I appreciate the help.

Thanks,

Sean

I downloaded and tried to run the demo for DiabloII, and it only gets =
as far
as the graphics test. It then tells me it can't find a supported mode?

Can you run other games without problems?

Try this:
Start menu - Run (or press winkey + r). Type dxdiag in the box and =
press enter, wait for the program to finish loading. Go to the secon tab =
from the left. See if there's any errors listed beneath the list of =
files. Then select third tab counting from the left. Is directdraw and =
direct3d activated or not? Try running the directdraw and direct3d =
graphics tests.

If all these run just fine and other games do too, I suggest you contact =
blizzard tech support for further help.

Thanks, Lenny.

I do run other games without problems; but in the DXDiag tests, it said it
had a problem setting my display to 640x480 high color.
I have noticed when I set the display settings manually that it doesn't want
to go below 800x600. I'm using the 45.23 nVidia drivers, and I know the
monitor will do 640x480. Maybe I need to change the monitor setting to a
generic monitor, instead of the Gateway 31-1, which is what I have?

Thanks,

Sean

"Lenny" wrote in message
...

I downloaded and tried to run the demo for DiabloII, and it only gets as
far
as the graphics test. It then tells me it can't find a supported mode?

Can you run other games without problems?

Try this:
Start menu - Run (or press winkey + r). Type dxdiag in the box and press
enter, wait for the program to finish loading. Go to the secon tab from the
left. See if there's any errors listed beneath the list of files. Then
select third tab counting from the left. Is directdraw and direct3d
activated or not? Try running the directdraw and direct3d graphics tests.

If all these run just fine and other games do too, I suggest you contact
blizzard tech support for further help.

I do run other games without problems; but in the DXDiag tests, it said it
had a problem setting my display to 640x480 high color.

Maybe I need to change the monitor setting to a
generic monitor, instead of the Gateway 31-1, which is what I have?

Maybe. Try the generic plug-and-play monitor type and see if it helps,
though it shouldn't matter. Monitor .inf "driver" files state the *maximum*
scan rates the monitor supports, they can't - as far as I'm aware - exclude
low resolutions. I think you have some software glitch somewhere in your
system preventing 640 from working. If changing the monitor type does not
help, try uninstalling your graphics driver (from add/remove programs in
control panel), reboot, re-install latest directx, reboot again, then
re-install newest graphics driver set again.

Things like this, weird windows glitches, are not seldom totally incurable
by any other means than a full-blown OS re-install, but you can always
try...

"Sean R. Kerns" wrote in message
...
Thanks, Lenny.

I do run other games without problems; but in the DXDiag tests, it said it
had a problem setting my display to 640x480 high color.
I have noticed when I set the display settings manually that it doesn't want
to go below 800x600. I'm using the 45.23 nVidia drivers, and I know the
monitor will do 640x480. Maybe I need to change the monitor setting to a
generic monitor, instead of the Gateway 31-1, which is what I have?

Thanks,

Sean

This is probable. Diablo II runs at 640*480 resolution by default, and the
expansion pack Lord of Destruction is capable of 800*600. So if you can't run
640*480 you definately can't run D2 demo, and probably not D2-LoD either since
it defaults to 640*480..

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Regards,
Henric