Those "uber 1337 haxxors" finally get the chop

[CelticHound]

Very, very interesting...

I understood it was likely a null pointer or one pointing off into space - I'm a developer, too. The dump info was simply too long to post - I can email the error logs, if it comes to that.

It turns out that I have two different sets of D2 CDs - though they are both marked version 1.0. The first set I'd bought pretty soon after the game came out. It is labeled as being for the various Windows OSes. The second set I bought a few months later, after I was really hooked. Though it's also labeled 1.0, it's for both Windows and Mac.

The d2data.mpq's are very different between the two sets:

Win
2000-05-10 13:28 256,225,123 D2DATA.MPQ

Win/Mac
2000-06-23 13:13 267,642,202 D2DATA.MPQ

We are talking an eleven meg difference here.

Also, I was under the impression that d2char.mpq and d2sfx.mpq had my CD keys encoded into them, so there should be no way my checksums would match yours. (For me, though, the results are consistent, given the CD keys I used during the install.)

Given all that, I've checked five different installations and here are my results:

Isolde:
d2data.mpq e86c2eb5
d2exp.mpq 31a1aa1b
d2music.mpq 63dddde0

RH (crashes on this box):
d2data.mpq - (267,642,202 bytes, CRC-32 = 0x6c8ee68f)
d2exp.mpq - (250,156,780 bytes, CRC-32 = 0x2e4516e1)
d2music.mpq - (345,349,632 bytes, CRC-32 = 0x63dddde0)

VPF:
d2data.mpq - (256,225,123 bytes, CRC-32 = 0xe86c2eb5)
d2exp.mpq - (250,156,780 bytes, CRC-32 = 0x2e4516e1)
d2music.mpq - (345,349,632 bytes, CRC-32 = 0x63dddde0)

VD2:
d2data.mpq - (256,225,123 bytes, CRC-32 = 0xe86c2eb5)
d2exp.mpq - (250,156,780 bytes, CRC-32 = 0x2e4516e1)
d2music.mpq - (345,349,632 bytes, CRC-32 = 0x63dddde0)

WI:
d2data.mpq - (267,642,202 bytes, CRC-32 = 0x6c8ee68f)
d2exp.mpq - (250,156,780 bytes, CRC-32 = 0x2e4516e1)
d2music.mpq - (345,349,632 bytes, CRC-32 = 0x63dddde0)

WT:
d2data.mpq - (256,225,123 bytes, CRC-32 = 0xe86c2eb5)
d2exp.mpq - (250,156,780 bytes, CRC-32 = 0x2e4516e1)
d2music.mpq - (345,349,632 bytes, CRC-32 = 0x63dddde0)

So d2music.mpq is fine by all standards. d2data gives the same crc for the 256MB version, but the 267MB version is different, naturally. My d2exp is consistent all through, but different than yours. That could be explained though by my using the same CD for all the installs, since I bought both my copies of the expansion at the same time, so I wasn't worried that the CD key would be "tied" to the particular disc, the way I was for the D2C disks - which were obviously different versions. Is it possible you are running a non-release version of d2exp.mpq?

What next?

-- CH