Windows 7 issue

[Arisen]

Ok, got a question here....last night i decided to try out w7...and everything is more-less ok, aside from one "minor" thing....apparently when i installed w7 i also pulled out my sound card and ate it....or well, that`s what my w7 is thinking. I got no sound at all.

First i thought that was some driver issue, so Google stepped up and i downloaded like 7-8 of them ( all of them were more-less latest version). No luck. Whenever I try to install them i get some weird bug ( different for every driver version ) and my pc crashes, and the ones that I actually can install do not seem to make any difference.

Device manager shows this under " Other Devices / Multimedia Audio Controller" and it has that yellow ! - implicating that it`s not working properly ( or at all for that matter ).


Anyone got any ideas how to fix this ? Anyone had similar experience ?

[Mysto]

What soundcard do you have?

[Zergx]

doesnt a yellow ! mean its a quest?

[Lan]

Maybe your sound card is incompatible with W7?

doesnt a yellow ! mean its a quest?

The quest for the holy sound card!

[Arisen]

Lol Ash...didnt think of that

Anyway no idea what my sound card is, but come to think of it, it could be that it just wont work with w7....gonna reinstall pretty much everything, windows included, and see what comes of this.

[Mysto]

If u don't know what sound card u have, it's prolly integrated with the mainboard. So if Lan is right, my next question is, how old is ur mainboard?

[Arisen]

MSI K8N Neo4 i belive ( and yeah i know it`s shit now, but up until this point I had no real reason to change any part of my pc ( apart from adding another gb of ram couple of moths ago as well as getting nvidia gforce 9600 gt graphic card)) Is there really a possibility that w7 wont even recognize my sound card ( if it is integrated - since i`m 99% sure it is ) ?

[Arisen]

Aight, it would appear that I am not only an idiot, but a lazy idiot. As soon as i checked my mainboard papers i noticed it said exately what sound card / drivers i need to make it work ( true, they were old, and i downloaded new drivers) . Thx for helping me open my lazy eyes guys. Cheers

[Langston2]

I installed Diablo 2 on my new rig that is running Windows 7 and I would like to share with you how I fixed several issues I had with it.

Installation went fine. And I chose the standard Video Config which is: Direct3D. I didn´t install any patches becouse my main role was to play singleplayer.
So when I tried to launch the game the screen went black for a couple of seconds and then dissapeard. Nothing else happened. Then when I opened Task manager th process was still running so I killed it. Then came my first solution that didnt result very good...I changed the video option to Direct Draw. I also changed it to comptability to Windows XP(Service Pack 3) and ticked Disable Desktop Composition. I ran the game and surprisinly it ran. I watched the intro movie but when I came to the menu all the colours where screwed up. So I went back to Direct3D and then downloaded the patch(1.12). Now the game works flawlessly, well kind of.... Becouse I noticed a important thing, the game was using 30-50% of CPU load! I still havent come to a fix to it yet. But here is what I have come up to while reading other formums: that the game uses the "old" programming way that consumes loads of CPU and almost none of GPU. The forum had a much more detaild explanation you can search it if you want: Diablo 2 CPU. And another big fix:

When you exit the game you notice that windows has turned to Windows 7 basic(no aero), you wait and aero still dosent show up. I concluded that the process still is running so I killed it. While killing the process I noticed that there were 2 rundll32.exe running. Usually there is only 1 unless you have a program that is really using it. It used 15% CPU power + 200mb ram. so I killed it and finally aero + CPU + RAM came back how they were before.

Hope this helped a little.