Diablo 2 - CD runs constantly

[Souka]

Ok, I feel a little silly asking this, but......

I did a full install of Diablo2 (1.5GB), patch 1.04b and 1.04c didn't help.

When I'm playing, the CD drive (the CD drive is a SCSI-DVD drive actually.....) keeps running at a medium-high speed...but the LED is off.

The game was locking up/freezing after about 20mins until I set the auto-insert notification to off. During this time, the CD drive spun up/down constantly....now it just spins at near full speed. I tried the auto-disconnect and sync settings, no effect.

Is it streaming off the music or something? I would hope not after 1.5GB of space used.

I'm about to the point of Downloading a hack to prevent the Play CD being needed....the whiring from my drive is annoying. Not to mention the drive is getting quite warm.


Suggestions? Ideas? Let's hear'em!

 

[TonyT]

It's definitely not streaming audio off of the CD - the audio was copied to your hard drive during installation.

I'm not sure why your cd keeps spinning, and I can't remember if I experienced a similar problem while I was playing Diablo II. I do know that if you eject the cd while playing, the whole game crashes (even if you do a full install).

Maybe the program keeps checking to make sure the cd is in your drive, and that's why the drive keeps spinning.

 

[Balt]

Turn the music off (or the volume all the way down). I know with that huge install it seems like you should get everything, but I don't think that's the case

 

[Need4Speed]

how will tunring the volume down help this problem?

 

[Souka]

some games have a "play CD music" option....unchecking that will stop the CD access.

and on other games, music-volume set to "zero" will disable the music, hence the CD componet.



Unfortunately, this is not the case with Diablo 2. If I remove the CD, I get a lovely blue-screen asking to put back in the Play-CD.....

I'm guessing this is a protection scheme. How annoying...boo on Blizard. Also, I've learned that if I hack-it so that the CD isn't required, I can't play on battle.net....argh.....

I need to somehow setup a virtual CD-Rom on my HD....hmmm....ideas are poping up into my head....

 

[Moonbender]

Setting up a virtual CD isn't very difficult, but I doubt you'll be able to fool the copy protection by a VCD.

 

[IamDavid]

I think you have the right idea in downloaing the patch that allows you to put the whole game on your HD. It will run much faster and will save on wear and tear of your CD Drive. I got mine from gamecopyworld.

 

[Vampire]

You don't need to download a patch. Even though the option says "full install" there is still a file that remains on the CD. It is either D2char.mpq or D2music.mpq, I forget which. Manually copy whichever of these isn't already on your HD from the play disc.

 

[MereMortal]

Thanks Vampire, it worked for me!

 

[Vampire]

Glad it worked MereMortal...which file was it? I assume the music file, but all I remember is it was a large file.

 

[Souka]

Whoa...coolness. I will try it tonight when I get home.

Massive thanks if it works!

Edit: Vampire or MereMortal: What directory did you put the file? or is it obvious?

 

[MereMortal]

I copied D2music.mpq from the CD to main Diablo II directory (Program Files/Diablo II). And yes it is a big file, 329 MB.

 

[Nosferatu]

Dag Nabit
It wont work for me. Are you using the latest patch from battlenet?

 

[Vampire]

I'm using the 1.04 patch. It worked for me on both computers I have D2 installed on. Don't think I had to make any other changes.

 

[MereMortal]

I'm also using the 1.04(b) patch.