Unhandled Exception: (c0000005)/ unable to identify version

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Good day.

Used a fresh install of d2 from the battle.net website - version 1.12a - updated to 1.13d via the blizzard updater

Ran anni.exe, also tried the unzip method

single player works

when attempting to connect to the server (gateway annihilus) I either get unhandled exception (if im running on win xp compat mode) or unable to identify version if no compat mode.

any ideas?

Edit: Fix

Fix -

control panel

system and security

system

advanced system settings

advanced

performance

data execution prevention

set turn on DEP for essential windows programs and services only.

and it worked. Thx.