The heck?

[Bob the Beholder]

So, I restarted some D1 action. I figured that it would be fun, what with the nostalgia and all. But there's a small problem. D1 seems to read quite a bit from the CD, and for some reason, whenever something strange happens, like a weapon breaking, my CD-ROM drive goes insane, the game stops for a moment, and then suddenly keeps going, skipping over all of the actions that would have happened while it seemed to be readin the CD, leaving me with the result that I basically stood there and took whatever hits happened to come my way until it stopped loading.

So, I checked the readme. It says that I should increase the CD-ROM cache, and provides instructions to do so. Aside from that it says it should only be required for slower drives, which mine certainly is not (especially considering the slow-fast range that was present at the time the readme was written), the instructions are for Windows 95, and my XP of evil apparently follows some sort of demonic, evil route to do this, that I am barred from finding.

I'd figure that Halo, Dungeon Siege, Warcraft III, or Age of Mythology would be the prime culprits for such problems, but nooo. Of course, it's good ole Diablo.

Anyway, do any of you know what kind of a problem this might be, and hopefully, a way to fix it?

*edit* I forgot to add: Yeah, baby, yeah *edit*