Diablo2 freezing in LAN multiplayer

Superwombat

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Mar 11, 2000
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I can't get Diablo 2 to work right in multiplayer TCP/IP mode. Every time I try to host a game it works fine... for about five minutes. Then it freezes for thirty seconds or so, while my poor pitiful body is desecrated by thousands of creatures. Then it runs like a hamster on crack for about 15 seconds. Then we're back to five minuts of good play. Lather, Rinse, Repeat, until I jump in front of a speeding watermelon simply to end the pain.

This happens both on my Athlon 550 with 256M of ram, and my celeron 500 with 128M. It happens whether there is anyone actually connected to the hosted game or not. It does not effect the "hostee" I downloaded patch 1.01 and it didn't help. Any ideas?