Hi there dear Median XL community!
For some time now I've been thinking about installing mods for D2, as I've been playing the game for years now and would like to change things up a little.
Median XL and PlugY pretty much being the biggest mods for the game (as far as I can tell, at least), I thought I'd give them a try and become a little active here in the forums/with the community in general.
After spending the last few hours getting all sorts of things set up like Median, PlugY, and the Glide wrapper, I now have some questions that hopefully someone will be able to answer.
First and foremost, I would like to know if it is possible to have several installations of Diablo II on my PC. Since I already have a copy installed, the installer does not give me the option to install the game again. The thing is, I would like to have three versions of D2: One for both Median and PlugY, one for just PlugY, and finally "vanilla" D2 with the latest (1.14d) patch for online play.
I don't necessarily need three copies, just two would be fine too. But that brings me to my next question which is a little more specific.
I've noticed that using the Glide wrapper on version 1.13 has the game go through the symbol list (the infamous symbols that appear in the top left corner of the screen upon booting up the game) about three times, then the game loads the two splash screens before going through the symbol list one more time and then finally dropping me at the title screen. Every time I start or exit a game, it again goes through the symbols. The thing is, this does not happen on 1.14 (which is why I "need" an up-to-date copy). I need the Glide wrapper because it fixes my gamma and mouse speed problem.
Being able to use Glide on 1.13 without the horrible loading times would be amazing...
I'm on Win 8.1.
That concludes my questions!
If someone could help me out with either or both, I'd be very grateful! Many hours were spent browsing the web and trying out all sorts of different settings and game versions... Of course my issue has to be so specific that I can't find anyone else with my same problem, so I figured I'd try asking in a mod community where players likely have some experience with this sort of thing
Any additional info/tips are welcome!
Thanks for reading, and I can't wait to delve into this mod!
UPDATE:
After playing the mod for a few minutes, it crashed twice so far...
The error message is "UNHANDLED_[something, I forget] ACCESS_VIOLATION" with some number strings after.
What could be causing this?