D2Mod install under Win98

[Ulmo]

Someone (Constance) complained here about problems with D2ModSetup under Win98.
As I don't know what rundll32 is supposed to do, I can't do more than reporting here...

[Brother Laz]

That may well be a private forum... c/p:

Hi there ^^

I've tried to install this following the procedure for those who didn't have D2mod installed yet, described in the first message.

After installing D2Mod with the D2ModSetup.bat, I got my first problem :

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RUNDLL32 a causé une défaillance de page dans 
le module <inconnu> à 0000:00000003. 
Registres : 
EAX=00000000 CS=017f EIP=00000003 EFLGS=00010202 
EBX=8184d9b6 SS=0187 ESP=0063fde0 EBP=00000001 
ECX=d571cdc0 DS=0187 ESI=00400000 FS=3c7f 
EDX=9094fcbf ES=0187 EDI=00000c5c GS=0000 
Octets à CS : EIP : 
00 65 04 70 00 16 00 6c da 65 04 70 00 65 04 70 
État de la pile : 
00400000 00000000 8184d9b6 00000001 8184d8d4 00000044 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 

As I had a message saying it was installed successfully before this, I just went on and extracted the v 0.01 beta files to a "shadow" sub-directory, then ran the LaunchMod.vbs script ... and got this :

http://img33.echo.cx/img33/7249/launchmodcrash8ja.png

I'm running Windows 98 first edition with Internet Explorer 5.0 (guess this must be have some kind of link with the version of what executes the VBS script ? ) ... please, help :'(

Edit : same thing running RecoverFromCrash.vbs , error line 19.

I also had a look at the CleanUp.bat script : it uses like a constant Diablo II path... which is not even the default one

[kingpin]

I have in past told SVR that this could be an issue. I know there is a problem in get path from "shortcut" in some win98 + gfxcards. A friend had this issue in my mod and we changed the way we loaded the custom DLL.

[SVR]

The path has nothing to do with d2mod. It doesn't use any.

The Rundll Error message is known. Win98 uses a different prototype for the dllentry point so the return stack is not adjusted correctly.

The install completes correctly then rundll abnormally exits. It isn't a problem.

Though I can't read french, it appears there's an error in the script.
You probably have to edit the script to tell it where your d2 is installed.