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Video anomalies in Diablo 2
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Posted by: markrm
I bought D2 again to play with 2 buddies online in private games. I installed it fine.
I play it and chose DIRECT3D. Well, in the game, there are dark black outlines around the characters and houses and rocks. I looked at it and thought "i dont recall these outlines last time i played this months ago". But i had a different video card then, a GF2. I have a GF4 Ti 4200 now.
Anyhow, the outlines looked just wrong, looked like cuniforms haha, if anyone remembers those things. So i tried running the game with the directdraw 2d mode. Well the black lines went away, the graphics didnt quite look as well shaded or colorful, real jagged. Plus, the bottom of my screen flashes randomly using directdraw.
SO back to d3d mode. Same black lines. Even the menu text like SINGLE PLAYER and all, is just screwy looking, hard to explain. I turned off CLEAR TYPE for fonts in Windows XP - had no effect. I have a screenshot of the black outlines if anyone wants to see.
SO how can i get the black lines to go away? It is very distracting, and makes the game look like someone did a cut n paste job of buildings and rocks, with adobe or something.
Here's my specs:
Diablo 2 (latest 1.09 patch)
AMD Thunderbird 1.5ghz
Abit KG7-RAID motherboard
256mb pc2100 ddr ram
16x10x40 cd-rw drive
GF4 Ti 4200 with 40.72 drivers (non-whql)
Direct-X 8 (the latest of couse)
Monitor driver is updated
Windows XP (fully updated including Service Pack 1)
Desktop resolution is at 1024x768x32bit color
No other d3d games do this, except Diablo 2. I'd have to show a screen shot. Just picture rocks, cliffs, buildings and such, with these dark border black lines. The sand by a building doesnt mesh in to the rest of the dirt on the ground - but in directdraw mode, it does. But directdraw mode gives those flashes, remember? I tried turning on and off antialising, and everything. Tried LOD settings for my video card, you name it. Just havent tried the old 30.82 whql drivers yet. I might just do that after i click SUMBIT here.
Anyone help? D2 is playable just fine, just those damnd black outlines...
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Posted by: Outlaw
DirectDraw is much more stable than Direct3D in Diablo2.
Those flashes you see are probably caused by nvidia's beta drivers, I got that too right after I installed them. Going back to 30.xx will probably solve that.
Posted by: markrm
I reverted back to the 30.82 drivers and now direct3d works fine... i knew it probably would. The new 40.72 drivers are still buggy.
As for d3d versus directdraw... nah, direct3d is better, image-wise, than directdraw, anyday. I turned on FSAA x4 (d3d spcial mode) and now D2 looks great, perfect.
Who told you directdraw (2d) was any good??? It's too scratchy, grainy and jaggy for me.
Posted by: Outlaw
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Originally posted by markrm
Who told you directdraw (2d) was any good??? It's too scratchy, grainy and jaggy for me.
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Direct3D looks better, I agree with that, but there are certain parts in the game where your framerate just drops, no matter how fast your pc is. This doesn't happen in Directdraw. I think one of these places is in act5, when you go up the stairs to the healing woman (Mala?).
The game also doesn't seem to freeze/exit to desktop as much when using Directdraw. Of course on some pc's this doesn't happen at all...
Anyway, you got your problem fixed, and that's the important thing here. 
Posted by: markrm
Hmm, i havent had frame rate drops at all. Nor any crashes :P Heh... but, occasionally, when i go from outside to say, a dungeon... the game pauses, while i hear my cd-rom spin up the disc inside. I hate that... ok there's a new problem LOL. How to make the game not freeze everytime the damned music to a new section starts up?! I did a FULL INSTALL of the game, too. Weird... maybe the music is on the cd? I dont know...
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Posted by: Outlaw
If you copy every .MPQ file from the play disc to your D2 dir, then it'll only need the cd for starting the game, music will play from your hd.
Posted by: markrm
Hmm ok... copy mpq to diablo folder. Cuz it does it quite a bit and im sick of it freezing.
Ok, my final question, and i might start a new thread on this...
When i had Diablo 2 when it first came out way back, i played online and some games lagged, some didnt. Overall it wasnt too laggy hardly. But last night i got online to trade gems for gold (playing as open character)... of course the bratty teen boys wanted to duel and kill me for my junk, when i said STOP YOU IDIOT haha. But surviving that, i didnt survive the lag. It's more laggy now to me.
My question is: DSL for my specific area in Texas has just been readied. I can get it now with ease. But i need to save up a bit more to pay for a whole year of service. I'd hate to miss a payment and get shut off haha. Anyhow... im on 56k modem right now. The phone company is 6000 feet from my house. So i get online at 56k speeds up to 55,444kbps (that is DAMN good for a modem, im talking good). My 2 buddies have DSL already, and they are far from the DSL server thingy in MY town. Well about 15-20 mins away down a highway.
I was told i could get 1.5mb download since im 6000 feet away if i got DSL. But for now, poor people have poor ways - im stuck with 56k modem. If my 2 DSL friends played Diablo 2... with one of them hosting the game... and i joined on 56k - would i lag? I was thinking not at all, if even barely at all. I play Warcraft 3 with no lag, and i dont understand why Diablo 2 has more lag. Perhaps all the enemies and action on screen, are sending too many data packets at once, and my modem cant cope with most of it.
That's the question... will i lag playing on a DSL hosted game, with me using a 56k modem? If so, me and my friends are not going to have much fun playing this game, and i just wasted $32 for no reason to buy it again haha.
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