I found some info regarding this in the readme for Sven Labusch's Glide3 to OpenGL wrapper: There will be more stuttering and processing overhead due to how textures are processed for D3D from what I understand. But in general the D3D mode for old hardware is pretty weak because of limitations they had to work with for D3D 6 compared to Glide. It's actually hard to say which way is better looking. So it was sharper in appearance but more aliased as well. The most obvious difference with D3D was the ground appeared to not be texture filtered as with Glide. I had a Matrox G400 Max in that machine with the Voodoo cards.

This setup worked flawlessly on both an old ASUS G73JH notebook with Mobility Radeon 5870 and a desktop with GTX 1080.Īs to D3D vs Glide on old hardware, I was curious about it too because I hadn't tried it in ages. I also got DSOAL to restore the EAX sound effects. It's stunning to play the game in high-resolution widescreen with motion-predicted high framerate.

D2DX is a form of Glide wrapper with various enhancements. Voodoo2 seems to run out of texture memory and drops to about 10 fps sometimes. I beat the first four acts on Voodoo2 12MB SLI and Voodoo3 2000 a month ago.

More annoying is that 3d sound effects won't be available on modern kit/OS and probably not environmental effects either. But I also recall that it was the Lord of Destruction expansion that really seemed to cause the directx renderer problems with choppiness and lags. I recall that athlon 2000 + voodoo2 + glide gives far smoother gameplay than athlon + mx400 + directx. Glide may be refresh-limited to 25fps ? And I'm not sure whether the higher resolution setting, perspective etc work in directx as well as glide. Of course the dagger issue means I would only use nglide. Otherwise I used to be convinced glide did look better and was far smoother on older hardware, but with an lcd screen and modern hardware there is probably not much difference. Not a big deal except for us perfectionists. After a certain quest completion this changes to a dagger if you are using glide but not if you are using directx. Kurast Docks, in the middle somewhere there is a blue sphere on a stand.

There is at least one Diablo 2 game object that does not display correctly in directx but does in glide.

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