The problem your talking about 'should' be the overflow issue from to many errors when you attempte to create a game. Its an old issue with B2 and B3.5 that I didn't know how to fix up till some point making B4. Then I realized a lot of simple things that don't really cause an issue for the game techically end up (if theres a lot of them, 100+) cause that random crash.
For instance I can have hundreds of reserve skills in the skills.txt file, but if I give them links to skilldesc (for in-game readout, name/dmg that kinda stuff) with out the skilldesc entries - it'll crash.
Now as for crashing 10 minutes into getting a char going? No clue on that one. if it happens every, single, time then I definitely have no clue. If its just a fluke crash probably has nothing to do with the game. At one point some bugged thing dropped in 1.10 for me once (non-modded game) in a TCP game and anytime someone got near that item/area they'd crash. So no telling which is rjust D2 being an ass or something I did years ago
So to sum this up:
10 minutes? no clue.
Crash trying to bring a char into game - its random, it sucks but you really don't have much reason to be save/exiting to quickly start playing again anyways. Unless your doing some transfer thing then your using TCP.
And all these issues are fixed (or well irrelevant to B4). Course currently there's an absurd amount of bugs in B4 from the new coding which hopefully will be getting smoothed out.
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