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| Author: | nedder [ Wed Feb 17, 2010 12:31 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
Get this- http://www.svenswrapper.de/english/downloads.html extract to your Diablo folder run d2vidtst.exe and choose glide when it finishes This will give you several benefits. -faster than directdraw and d3d -sharper textures than d3d mode -can use 3D perspective mode -colored lighting (d3d has some but not nearly as nice) Glide   Directdraw - sharp textures, bland lighting  D3D - blurry textures, no colored ambient lighting like glide 
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| Author: | Hanayaka [ Thu Feb 18, 2010 9:50 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
Ooh, looks interesting. Will have to try when I get home - hopefully this helps with my performance issues. (Edit: Diablo 2 performance issues...) |
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| Author: | blinky99 [ Fri Feb 19, 2010 1:17 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
when i run diablo i get "setpixelformat schlug fehl!" then "error 23 crit error while initializing " 3dfx mode doesnt work either only 2d direct draw, i have no graphic card other than what came on this old ass pc. running windows 2000 |
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| Author: | nedder [ Fri Feb 19, 2010 3:53 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
It may not support win2k or your videocard may not have opengl, which is what the wrapper converts to. |
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| Author: | blinky99 [ Fri Feb 19, 2010 3:58 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
aye what im afraid of to bad sounds really cool, might have to try on my laptop. anything else to speed up performance trick wise, i already run in 2d, withi all low graphics settings. so i installed it on my laptop , now d2 wont work at all, did a clean install of d2, just get some % symbol up at the upper left hand corner of the screen when i try to play, sometimes it counts up to 10. how do i undo. I did the reset +remove from registry, then deleted the d2 folder, and the glide3fx from windows\system32 |
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| Author: | Steel [ Fri Feb 19, 2010 6:00 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
laptop OS? if it is vista then turning off visual styles/xpsp3 mode is a must for glide wrapper. |
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| Author: | blinky99 [ Fri Feb 19, 2010 8:04 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
I have vista, and service pack 2, does this apply to me?? ok done went to my pc>advanced system settings> visual effects, and unclicked everything does this do it? clicked "best performance option" |
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| Author: | PureRage-DoD [ Sat Feb 20, 2010 9:51 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
gives me 9fps using this. even on the test. The game is pretty much unplayable with it. I run windows vista. Went and changed the visual effects to "best performance option" (what an ugly mess it makes of your comp doing this) and still got 8-9 fps on the test. |
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| Author: | kramuti [ Sat Feb 20, 2010 11:43 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
On the properties of the shortcut, are you using XP compatibility mode? What do you have check mark below that? I have all of them unchecked. You may also go into the setting menu of the wrapper and increase the texture size and enable/diable the vsync option. |
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| Author: | PureRage-DoD [ Sat Feb 20, 2010 12:10 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
nope, even the test is showing 8-9 fps |
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| Author: | blinky99 [ Sat Feb 20, 2010 2:48 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
same for me game crawls in that mode [3dglidee], even with compatibility. only way for it to play is in windowed mode |
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| Author: | Sesshomaru [ Sun Feb 21, 2010 3:40 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
i have vista and i have a 60 fps when using glide |
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| Author: | Steel [ Sun Feb 21, 2010 4:58 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
http://img693.imageshack.us/img693/2707/abcgl.png make sure you have something like this (change vista to xpsp2, on win7 you must have vista chosen). Also open Glide-Init, nav to settings tab and turn off 32bit rend. Make sure you have latest directx 9.0(last is from august and ppl tend to think they dont need to upgrade it on vista) and gpu drivers. |
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| Author: | grincho [ Sun Feb 21, 2010 6:49 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
Steel wrote: http://img693.imageshack.us/img693/2707/abcgl.png make sure you have something like this (change vista to xpsp2, on win7 you must have vista chosen). Also open Glide-Init, nav to settings tab and turn off 32bit rend. Make sure you have latest directx 9.0(last is from august and ppl tend to think they dont need to upgrade it on vista) and gpu drivers. I can only run at 32bit rend (if the that is check off I get almost full black screen) and I'm running windows 7 and never had to run compatibility mode with this computer. |
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| Author: | Hanayaka [ Sun Feb 21, 2010 12:41 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
I installed and set up the wrapper - but my game looks the exact same with none of the interesting coloring that your game has. Framerate is exactly the same. Anything I need to do to make sure it is running properly? Or settings I need to change to get my game to look like the pictures in the OP? |
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| Author: | nedder [ Sun Feb 21, 2010 1:14 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
Did you run d2vidtst.exe? In game, type /fps and it will show which renderer is being used. |
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| Author: | Hanayaka [ Sun Feb 21, 2010 6:33 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
Yeah I did, no renderer is displayed. Perhaps I'll play with the settings a bit. |
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| Author: | Hanayaka [ Mon Feb 22, 2010 9:44 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
Reran video test, works great. Much more noticeable in full-screen mode. Thanks for the howto 
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| Author: | blinky99 [ Mon Feb 22, 2010 11:25 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
what settings did u play with, on the test i only get like 50 fps, but i dont get that in full screen mode only windowed then its like 70. what OS? |
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| Author: | Hako [ Mon Feb 22, 2010 5:06 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
i tried it, but it only gave me like 100fps in town. i went into tundra, teled around a few times and poison nova'd but it dropped my fps down to like 20. i just switched back to directdraw where i get 300-400fps. -.- |
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| Author: | blinky99 [ Tue Feb 23, 2010 12:09 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
only 100 damn im lucky to get 60 on directdraw! |
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| Author: | x3n0x1d3 [ Tue Feb 23, 2010 12:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
Hako wrote: i tried it, but it only gave me like 100fps in town. i went into tundra, teled around a few times and poison nova'd but it dropped my fps down to like 20. i just switched back to directdraw where i get 300-400fps. -.- i had the same issue, but i managed to fix it by setting the texture-memory at its lowest (8mb) runs great now |
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| Author: | Hako [ Tue Feb 23, 2010 4:35 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
x3n0x1d3 wrote: Hako wrote: i tried it, but it only gave me like 100fps in town. i went into tundra, teled around a few times and poison nova'd but it dropped my fps down to like 20. i just switched back to directdraw where i get 300-400fps. -.- i had the same issue, but i managed to fix it by setting the texture-memory at its lowest (8mb) runs great now i just tried that and it did improve it pretty good. i can go around and nova nova nova pretty fast and it just drops it down to 30-60ish. i have a feeling that in a full game with multiple things being cast i'll still have a problem tho. |
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| Author: | blinky99 [ Tue Feb 23, 2010 6:47 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
i did that still tests at 50 max FPS |
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| Author: | NewBastige [ Thu Feb 25, 2010 5:39 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
sup nedder: I've downloaded the wrapper and I got around 120fps using the wrapper. It stayed around there while I was using my summoner with all summons out + mercenary in the Halls of the Dead (where you'd expect more objects). Maybe because my video is 60Hz and can't go any higher? Maybe I should just go to my boltress and spam charged bolts, see if that drops my FPS  Anyhow, damn good find man! |
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| Author: | nedder [ Sat Apr 17, 2010 12:30 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
should sticky this |
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| Author: | NewBastige [ Tue Apr 27, 2010 4:34 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
+1 on that. For some people, it can improve the quality of the game's graphics. (It'll be easier to find too )
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| Author: | trigun99 [ Mon Jul 26, 2010 4:02 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
bumping and +1 for helping me. Working great, i can finally see in windowed mode w/o having to screw up my actual desktop resolution. for the talk of 300-400 fps... remember, your monitor has a refresh rate limit. more than likely 60-125. the game may say 400, but you're not getting over your monitors limit. Mine stays static at 75 using glide, which is my refresh rate limit. not sure why people are losing fps in heavy traffic, didn't happen to me. |
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| Author: | eulogy [ Sun Oct 24, 2010 9:54 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
blinky99 wrote: so i installed it on my laptop , now d2 wont work at all, did a clean install of d2, just get some % symbol up at the upper left hand corner of the screen when i try to play, sometimes it counts up to 10. how do i undo. ok so i get this thing too. i installed from discs i bought at a store. i played bnet on them for a while. whenever im playin on 2D direct, whether HU or bnet, it takes exceedingly long for the game to run. i dont like playing on 3D because i hate the coloring and odd lagg i get from it. the whole game just looks wonky to me that way. but anways, on 2D, the % thing in the top left corner; it keeps changing like its a long count down. in fact it does count down literally like 9-0 then like a-z and some weird ass symbols. it takes like 2 minutes, but the game DOES run normally after that. |
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| Author: | FuryCury [ Sun Jan 16, 2011 12:59 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
bump |
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| Author: | jsh [ Sun Feb 13, 2011 2:46 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
I am running xp on a laptop and it works great in windowed mode, but 8 fps as mentioned before in full screen. I turned down the texture memory to 8MB and turned off the 32 bit rendering. The test still shows 8 fps and the game is still choppy in fullscreen mode. Is there a way to fix this? Thanks jsh |
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| Author: | kramuti [ Sun Feb 20, 2011 7:13 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
anybody had issues with the video test not even seeing that glide was there? I still just get the two original options for some reason on win7...i miss my wrapper... |
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| Author: | kramuti [ Tue Feb 22, 2011 5:16 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
So, it seems people don't have the same issues as i do, but for my machine that is now on 32bit win7 pro (32 bit, sad i know) i found a few things out hu doesn't want to run the batch file unless in C:/Dfolder (rather than program files), and glide wrapper doesn't want to initialize unless it IS under program files...luckily i have vanilla installed there. Figured that i would post this in case somebody else has similar issues. |
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| Author: | Steel [ Tue Feb 22, 2011 6:59 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
Huh?? Reason you can't run d2mod from program files is on win7 this folder is heavily guarder(admin rights and stuff) BUT glide wrapper its kinda odd as any application first check for dll in root folder then in system folder. IE if you put modified dsound.dll(99% of games/software overall use it) into root folder it will be used instead of right one from system's one. That's how every wrapper is made... man in the middle in dll and alter it.
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| Author: | Pixelpojken [ Mon Apr 04, 2011 6:37 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
Works like a charm! Many thanks! |
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| Author: | Reei [ Wed May 04, 2011 4:21 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
I cant seem to find the d2vidtst.exe in the diablo 2 folder, any solution to this? |
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| Author: | PureRage-DoD [ Wed May 04, 2011 8:00 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
Heres the one from my folder |
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| Author: | Reei [ Thu May 05, 2011 4:21 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
cant download it, just says: Information You are not authorised to download this attachment. |
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| Author: | PureRage-DoD [ Thu May 05, 2011 6:04 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
oops, |
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| Author: | Reei [ Thu May 05, 2011 6:06 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
thanks, so i just paste that data folder into the diablo 2 folder or what? |
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| Author: | PureRage-DoD [ Fri May 06, 2011 5:26 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
paste it it your HU folder (or wharever) and just run it, it'll make your screen flash a few times while it's checking the display then you pick what display you want. Ps. new version of D2SE does all this automatically and you just mark the box for the display you want |
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| Author: | Reei [ Mon May 16, 2011 4:29 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
But how am i supposed to "run it" its just a data folder with a bunch of files in it.? |
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| Author: | PureRage-DoD [ Mon May 16, 2011 12:27 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
arg wrong link..... this would be much easier with attatchments |
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| Author: | PureRage-DoD [ Mon May 16, 2011 12:32 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
https://rapidshare.com/files/2549836507/D2VidTst.rar |
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| Author: | Reei [ Tue May 17, 2011 4:44 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
Ok i've got it activated but i have some problems. My d2 is stuck in window mode when i start it with the loader and i have some weird grahpics bugs ingame. Hers a screenshot: http://imageshack.us/f/269/glidew.jpg/ any solution for this? |
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| Author: | PureRage-DoD [ Tue May 17, 2011 9:51 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
no idea, my glide is setup through d2se (automatic). For the windowed mode you need to change the windowed option in the glide config. |
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| Author: | drrod [ Mon May 30, 2011 1:58 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
How much of a difference does this make in the known lag heavy areas? Places/bosses like tundra, Moloch, Glasya, etc. I never lag much outside of a few specific areas so I'm curious if this is worth doing for those problem spots. |
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| Author: | Wolfs [ Tue Jun 21, 2011 11:29 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
Sticky this please... this fixed so much problems i have months trying to fix... some video cards and screen resolution have serious issues with D2. |
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| Author: | Soulmancer [ Sat Aug 06, 2011 11:14 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
Wierd. I can get it running without Hell Unleash installed, with HU the game crashes on start up as long as D2Mod is enabled. If I un-install d2mod it works :/ |
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| Author: | jaykayrox [ Sun Aug 07, 2011 8:31 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
drrod wrote: How much of a difference does this make in the known lag heavy areas? Places/bosses like tundra, Moloch, Glasya, etc. I never lag much outside of a few specific areas so I'm curious if this is worth doing for those problem spots. i'd be interested to know also! |
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| Author: | Soulmancer [ Sun Aug 07, 2011 10:38 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
Well for some reason I can get Glide working fine without D2Mod installed and vice versa. Try having them both enabled and I get "Diablo 2 has stopped working" instantly when I try I start it. |
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| Author: | Steel [ Sun Aug 07, 2011 10:43 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
Soulmancer wrote: Well for some reason I can get Glide working fine without D2Mod installed and vice versa. Try having them both enabled and I get "Diablo 2 has stopped working" instantly when I try I start it. What's your install dir of d2? if program files then move it outside of it. Try running glide-init and unselect everything in extensions... also try to change overall graphic setup in either nvidia/Catalyst panel. I've had many weird problems with wrong loader, opengl triple buffering enabled (weird colors in game), etc. Try to run d2vidtest again. What's your graphic card ? What about logs? is there any info about this crash (like trying to load dll but fail)? |
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| Author: | Soulmancer [ Sun Aug 07, 2011 11:06 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
-D2 installed Games\Diablo 2 -Tried running D2vistest again -Nvidia GTX 560 Ti -Using D2 Loader -No error at all documented in log I can get glide working fine on it's own without any issues at if I un-install D2mod systems. As soon as I install D2mod systems Diablo 2 instantly stops working upon start up. As I said with D2mod systems only installed without glide, game works fine; glide installed without D2mod systems also works fine... Together they fail. |
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| Author: | Steel [ Sun Aug 07, 2011 11:28 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
Hm weird. 560 is like hd6850 and I have 0 problems with it. Try http://www.svenswrapper.de/english/text ... rsion.html and disable aero(compatibilty tab)completely. Are you getting the error in full mode and -w as well? |
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| Author: | PureRage-DoD [ Sun Aug 07, 2011 11:32 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
try D2SE it pretty much gets rid of any instal issues with glide and mods ingeneral. |
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| Author: | Soulmancer [ Sun Aug 07, 2011 11:35 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
Apparently I just needed to reboot. I've been able to get Glide and the D2ExpRes plugin working fine together now. So it's all good now! |
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| Author: | utunnels [ Tue Sep 25, 2012 10:51 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
Interesting. I have tried this long time ago but failed. I guess that was because gfx card driver for windows 7 sucks. I searched the internet to see if anyone had the same problem, but it appeared I was the only one that had such kind of issue. At first I used direct3d, it looked good but the game ran quite slowly. So I always played in windowed mode after that. Later I found that glide wrapper and gave it a try. Before the loading screen, everything was fine. But when in game, my computer was choked to death, it got less than 1fps I guess that I could barely move my mouse. I couldn't see anything but gray triangles. Esc menu and HUD were displayed correctly I think. I saw it rained in rogue encampment, but beyond that there were only some gray triangles, odd. *edit* GeForce 7100 GS |
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| Author: | PureRage-DoD [ Thu Jan 03, 2013 10:10 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
I had the same issue and eventually sorted it by messing around with the diff glide settings. See This topic also, a few pages are related to glide issues and theres a config file in among there too i think. |
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| Author: | iiNfluence [ Fri Jul 18, 2014 10:34 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Howto: Using a Glide wrapper for better gfx/performance |
ive tryed everything and i still cant get Glide wrapper to work, i extracted to folder. i opened the glide init to un check the 32 bit renderer i cheked 1024x728 window-mode and some more, i runned vidtest again and choosed the 3dfx glide, i changed to: run windows vista and cheked the 2 boxed you guys said to check on my d2.exe. and if i open a game and type /fps ... its still say video: Software... any idea on wats going on ? oh yeah and d2 was installed on path: folder : document game:d2 and hu is in the same GAME folder as d2 hu. ? mmm i dont know wat to try now tbh oh also i tryed restarting and running the vidtest again. but idont work either |
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