diablo 2 - how do i run glide with nvida

[lespaul]

Ok, i have an nivida GeForce 2 mx..i want to be able to play diablo 2 in glide mode (it looks, and runs much better in glide), but not exactly sure how to go about this. I tried evoodoo which is a glide wrapper, but all that does is give me a white screen with a few colored blocks. It seems all of those glide wrapper files were designed to be used with console game Emulators.
Is there some sort of glide emulator program designed for nvidia cards to play games like diablo 2? I could really use some help here, and any advice or suggestions will be appreciated.

 

[marneus]

never knew you could get glide working on a Nvidia... even in a SW emulator

no-one shouts louder than someone who is being ignored, or in the case of techies, to be heard over the noise of their PC's ;-)

 

[ejsmith2]

Yeah, there's stuff like "Glidos" out there.

I'm sure, by now, some freak of nature has done that for Diablo2. I played d2 on a voodoo2 card at 640x480. I *cannot* say it looked better than my GF2 Ultra under d3d.

But to each his own.

I can, however, say that glide looks like those cheap photos of naked chicks who are so embarrassed by their bodies they tell the cameraman to use a smear-filter to hide their vericose veins and strech marks.

Just my little $.02 in there...

"I personally think filesystems should be rewritten from scratch every 5 years..." --- Hans Reiser

 

[lespaul]

a voodoo 3 will out perform ANY geforce card, even gf4 ti4600's, in diablo 2..the game was made for glide, and it runs crappy frame rates in Direct 3D, especially in later acts of the game. I've talked to people who have made the switch from voodoo to the new nvidia cards, and its sucked for them. My friend still has his voodoo3 in his system, on his old 450 MHz cyrix processor, 128 MB of pc100 sdram on windows ME, and it outperforms my 1.0 GHz, amd athon thunderbird, win2k, 512 MB pc133, geforce 2 mx400, on diablo 2...his computer does however suck on any other newer games NOT made for glide.

I went and read some forum messages at guru3d.com and this seems to be a problem for quite a few people..for some, a glide wrapper like evoodoo worked very well.. for me, it doesn't at all.

Just wondering if someone else has found a glide wrapper to work on thier system for diablo 2, and could share thier advice with me.

 

[Skipper007]

Doesn't Unreal Tournament have problems with Direct 3D performance as well? I know that Wheel of Time (based on an earlier Unreal engine build) runs fine on my Geforce 2 Pro, but run it on an early Direct 3D card (Matrox G200) and it's unplayable even at bare minimum detail.

 

[lespaul]

yes, UT also has this problem, along with a number of other older games from this time

 

[Liranan]

I had an XP1900, 512MB PC2100 and Leadtek GF3 Ti 200 running at 250/550 and yet D2 still ran slow, now I know why. Thank you very much.

From the Seas we come to the Seas we return.

 

[HolyShiznit]

A lot of those older games are just designed to run well using 3dfx cards (Glide). 3dfx was awesome back in the day.

Games like Unreal, Diablo2, etc were optimized for Voodoo cards, and not much work was done to make them run well using Direct3D. So you'll need a faster computer to make up for it.

Specifically, I believe certain visual effects were Glide-only for Diablo2. So unless you have a Voodoo 3 or higher card, I don't think you'll see *everything* they programmed in for visual effects. Having said that, my Athlon XP 2000+ screamed through Diablo2 last night. Awesome load times, and no slowdown.

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