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Diablo II... Fps with Glide!!

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Jakalwarrior

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Ever run fraps etc... in d3d mode? diablo gets 20-40fps with serious slow downs in some spots. The game was developed for glide. Check out how it runs on a modern card with a glide wrapper! The world all looks a little bit different too. Less grain and blur. Less font smoothing too though.

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what wrapper are you using, and where can i get it. Diablo 2 seems to be lag quite often for me with my 30 minions running around.
 
That actually looks quite pretty, that's impressive. The architecture looks very crisp. Too bad it's limited to 800x600 though..
 
http://www.svenswrapper.de/english/index.html
This one. I had to fiddle with the options a lot to get rid of some corruption though. Also it crashed about 1/10 times when I try to join a game :( im still fiddling with the options trying to fix that. I would imagine which options work best vary by card.
The FPS usually run from about 100-500 though.
 
I'm at like 700fps in windowmed mode Direct3D. My gpu hardly heats up at all too. Its 90% cpu load.
 
aeonrevolution said:
I'm at like 700fps in windowmed mode Direct3D. My gpu hardly heats up at all too. Its 90% cpu load.
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I get around same in windowed, but in fullscreen it goes down to something like 20 and becomes extremely choppy.
 
thx the wrapper helps alot

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i get around 400 in town but it drops to around 200 when alot is going on. way better than it was before tho.

and why dont i rmember seeing the shadows before is that something thats only in glide? cause i honestly dont remember them before i used the wrapper.

aslong as im above 60 fps i dont care too much but it seems like my fps is still lower than it should be considering im using a 3ghz 1333mhz fsb C2d and an 8800gts. but meh cant complain when its 200fps+
 
hmm, I cant seem to get it working, I put the dll file into the diablo 2 directory, I have patch 1.12 , after running the video test I selected glide, then when I went to load it up all it gives me is a black screen with symbols in the top left corner ... % * (

Im using a 4870 , could that be the problem?
 
Krenum said:
hmm, I cant seem to get it working, I put the dll file into the diablo 2 directory, I have patch 1.12 , after running the video test I selected glide, then when I went to load it up all it gives me is a black screen with symbols in the top left corner ... % * (

Im using a 4870 , could that be the problem?
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FAQ page has this:

10. Vista:
If I start the wrapper, only a black screen/window appears and in the upper left corner of the screen some characters are shown one by another.
Please make first sure, if the Aero-Glass theme is activated. If it is so, please first try to deactivate it.
The wrapper uses the OpenGL-interface. In Vista, the real OpenGL-interface is not supportet, if Aero-Glass is activated.
In the start-link of Diablo2 you can set, that at game-start the Aero-Glass theme will be deactivated automatically. And at ending the program automatically activated again:
in the properties of the D2-start-link go to compatibility, set there the mark at 'Disable desktop compositing'.
 
glide wrappers are great if its an older game designed for it. i find any game using the original UT engine doesn't run right without one - especially with ati cards! their drivers dont seem to like it too well...this makes me want to dust off D2 at some point. been a while since i've played it.
 
zombix said:
how do you play in windowed mode?
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add -w to the shortcut target line.

Also, did anyone else just notice all of their characters arent expired anymore? They say the are, but you can create a game and they unexpire...
 
Rofl-Mic-Lofl said:
Also, did anyone else just notice all of their characters arent expired anymore? They say the are, but you can create a game and they unexpire...
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Nope, before I rerolled I tried my old chars and got the "does not exist" or whatever message. My infinity, all my runes, arachs, torches, eth forth, enigmas, anni, etc.. all my stuff from last ladder season gone. I deleted them all now to make way for re-rolling. No biggie though, all of that took less than a month to get and I was having fun. Im having fun now too.
 
Jakalwarrior said:
Nope, before I rerolled I tried my old chars and got the "does not exist" or whatever message. My infinity, all my runes, arachs, torches, eth forth, enigmas, anni, etc.. all my stuff from last ladder season gone. I deleted them all now to make way for re-rolling. No biggie though, all of that took less than a month to get and I was having fun. Im having fun now too.
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My friends, and my accounts both work now. Sucks for you :p
 
How are you getting that framerate? Isn't Diablo II capped at 25fps?
 
Bop said:
How are you getting that framerate? Isn't Diablo II capped at 25fps?
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the only 25fps cap ive seen is in the menu. and i think vsync is on by default in the wrapper, but when you disable vsync the fps fly...
 
I can't get this to work, I have set my D2 shortcut to disable desktop composition, but all i see is the Fraps counter and random parts of the screen flashing in and out. Anything I'm doing wrong?
 
shiznit said:
I can't get this to work, I have set my D2 shortcut to disable desktop composition, but all i see is the Fraps counter and random parts of the screen flashing in and out. Anything I'm doing wrong?
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Start disabling the extensions. All of them then see which work for you.
 
horrorshow said:
I couldn't tell a lick of difference.
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I didnt see an increase in FPS but I am running D2 fullscreen and at desktop resolution (2560x1600) so it is no longer blurry as it was when running at 800x600. Still pixelated but it looks a lot more clear. Does the Glide wrapper support image scaling like 2xSaI? I havent had time to play around with it much.

EDIT: Doesn't look like there are any image scaling filters unfortunately. That would be a really awesome feature. Does anyone know of a glide wrapper that has image scaling filters?
 
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