Diablo 2 : error decompressing sprite

[Jorrit]

at certain bosses the game gives an 'error decompressing sprite' an quits. blizzard response was to uninstall, then defrag, and then reinstall the game. didn't help. have you ever heard of such a crappy engine that needs you to defrag your drive? didn't have the problem with my previous computer. but apparantly it doesn't like my via chipset or something.

did anyone have this problem?

 

[tanstaafl]

I had this problem a couple of times in the past. For me, it seemed to be a problem with reading the CD, possibly due to problems with the copy protection scheme. I copied all of the d2*.mpq files to the Diablo II directory on my HDD and the problem has not occurred since then. Also, you may want to make sure you have the latest patch, since I believe some of the later fixes were related to CD reading problems.

 

[Jorrit]

i already had all files on the hd, and have the problem with all patches. btw, newest patch is automatically installed when you connect to battle net.