As the title says, any of my offline characters will not log in, it says “Failed to Join Game” and returns to the main menu. My online characters still work, as do any hardcore offline characters, making me think it’s related to the shared stash.
try deleting or moving the shared stash file, see if that will help
it is located here: “C:\Users\ubeogesh\Saved Games\Diablo II Resurrected\SharedStashSoftCoreV2.d2i” (replace ubeogesh with your windows user name)
Thanks for the tip, though won’t that also remove all the items in the stash?
Edit: Just tried that, it fixes the problem, and now I can play. However it deletes the stash, so all the stuff I had in there, including all runes is now gone.
Your stash file got corrupted. From the reports here - looks like not an uncommon problem in D2R. Corrupting save files in legacy D2 is not unheard of, but from my experience it was quite rare. I would assume some file-locking software might cause that (like an antivirus).
I suggest to auto-backup your save folder to OneDrive (search in google “How to sync any folder to OneDrive”, you need an instruction that shows you how to make a directory junction). After that, in case files get corrupted, you can restore it via “Previous Versions” menu.
Disregard what I wrote before about those tutorials about directory junction. It is better to just change the properties of the Saved Games folder and relocating it under OneDrive altogether.
I remember doing the directory junction trick and it wasn’t syncing very frequently (probably something to do with OneDrive listening to the file system updates; but they were actually done in some other location, and “passively” appeared under OneDrive)
Well I appreciate the thorough response, and if I decide to play the game ever again, I will have to make backups as you suggested.
Unfortunately, that won’t save you from a corrupted stash. By the time you discover that it’s corrupted, the file would already be overwritten on Onedrive and also corrupted. Best thing to do is keep manual backups, multiple if necessary. At least that way you only lose maybe a day’s worth of items.
Did you read what I wrote?
After that, in case files get corrupted, you can restore it via “Previous Versions” menu.
OneDrive keeps a lot of previous versions.
I have this problem too its nothing to do with the shared stash, other offline characters load up fine, but 1 offline character just goes to “Failed to Join Game”