About
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This is an unofficial, hacked version of D2Loader v1.10 to make it compatible
with Diablo II 1.12. Most of the 1.10 parameters and what-not still work, so
please refer to the v1.10 D2Loader docs for more info about D2Loader.

Version numbering is now done completely by date to avoid confusion when there
is a Diablo II "v1.11b" and D2Loader "v1.11b02". When looking for the latest
release, look for the one with the latest date.

For the latest versions, please see http://d2loader.webhop.net/ which will
redirect you to a page which has (hopefully) safe versions of the latest
builds. I can't promise whoever hosts the files will not replace them with
trojans and such, so please be careful as with any D2 related executables.

Installation
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Remove any existing v1.10 or v1.11 plugins - they will not load. Then copy the
.exe to your Diablo II directory and run it or whatever you want to do with
it.

THE D2LOADER EXE MUST BE IN YOUR DIABLO 2 FOLDER AND MUST BE RUN FROM THERE
TOO. You will get a STORM.DLL error if you try to run it outside of there or
have a different startup directory.

Below are some useful command line parameters you may wish to use:

-w             Run in windowed mode.
-ns            Disable sound.
-nohide        Don't hide the Diablo II window when losing focus.
-res800        Start at 800x600 (avoids window moving off-centre on load)
-nosleep       Do not call sleep(1) (allows D2 to use 100% CPU time).
-altcolor      Change color of monster health bar.
-title "foo"   Set the Diablo II window title to foo.
-mpq foo.mpq   Load foo.mpq (useful for additional CD keys)
-skiptobnet    Skip straight to the BNet login screen.

Technical Note
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This hacked version uses direct DLL offsets (not based on load address), so if
any of your D2 DLL files are relocated, you will most likely get crashes. To
see if you have relocations, download Process Explorer and look for yellow D2
DLLs at the bottom of the D2 process in DLL View. Find out what loaded in the
preferred base address and remove / rebase it to fix this.