Diablo2 On Windows7

LazyGamerMike

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I recently bought the Diablo2 Battlechest and installed the game (I have the LOD expansion but haven't installed it yet). I installed Diablo2 on Sunday and after following steps to get it running on Windows7 it ran well and was enjoyable to play and was on Monday too.
However last night I shut down my PC before going to bed and now today when I went to play the game it's having problems launching/crashing all the time. All previous settings under Properties are the same: I have the latest patch, I have run the 'D2VdTst' and selected 'Direct3D' as I was suggested to from multiple forums. All these things - like I said - worked before but not any more, so curious as to what to try next and hopefully resolve this problem? I don't want to have to figure things out and have to resolve issues with this game every time i restart/shut down my PC
 
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Actually to better compatibility run the game in Direct2D (DirectDraw) mode, also make sure to run it with windows XP SP3 compatibility and as administrator, I've been playing it for years in Win7 Ultimate 64bits with that config no issues at all.
Actually to better compatibility run the game in Direct2D (DirectDraw) mode, also make sure to run it with windows XP SP3 compatibility and as administrator, I've been playing it for years in Win7 Ultimate 64bits with that config no issues at all.
 
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LazyGamerMike

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I gave that a try to no success still need to update driver as well, but thought I'd try your suggestion first. When I went back to select Direct2D a second time (after the first failed) running the D2VdTst again I got a message that said: Error 22: A critical error has occurred while initializing DirectDraw" I'm thinking I should probably just reinstall Diablo2?