It took me three times to realize I had an issue with the desktop. The game would shut down and the only way to play again was to uninstall and reinstall. This reminds me of when I tried playing D2R on my old desktop before I realized that my video card was capable of handling the game. I've checked and I have the latest drivers on the laptop. I've checked the save games folder and all of the charaters are still there. I then tried GoMule and while it shows my wolfbarb, when it opens it says disconnected and is totally empty.

I've shut down the computer and retried several times with the same error. The game would allow me to start an online character. I think trried a number of my other characters and the game started to load, but then gave me a Failure to join game message. I skipped over that and got to my offline characters only to find that the character that I had been playing, my wolfbarb, was not listed. The game started up as if I hadn't played before with the questions like on color blindness and then started the opening the very first story graphics. I then logged onto Battlenet and started D2R.

This was the second time that has happened though I wasn't playing D2R the first time. On opening the lid I was able to log back in. So, I closed the lid and waited till the fan speed had stopped. When I clicked on the waypoint the laptop crashed, the screen went black and I had zero response from my laptop. Last evening I was getting set to run the Ancient's way Terror Zone for a second time. I know I should have posted this in the sticky, but I need help now.

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