Diablo II LoD with a ATI Radeon.

March 19th, 2005, 10:09 AM

Im Using a Radeon 9800 Pro 128 mb. and ive been trying look for something thatll make diablo II look like how it does on nvidia or vodoo cards..cuz it looks really crap on my comp after i got this Radeon

im using Windows XP sp1. with NGO Driver 2.2 :P , Directx 9.0c, Avast, Spyware Tools and a kerio firewa.. if that helps.. Pentium 4, 2.8ghz processor, and 1gig of memory

**Regeneration** · March 19th, 2005, 10:12 AM

you tried to force AA/AF ?

March 19th, 2005, 10:25 AM

This is wat it looks like

.. and im not really sure how too force aa/af for Diablo II...

March 20th, 2005, 02:07 AM

Man,check this Glide Wrapper out!The game will run and look soooo much better!
http://diablo2.ingame.de/hilfe/Wrapper.php

March 20th, 2005, 08:18 PM

ive tried using glide wrappers.. it makes it look realli similar.. tho i change it in vid test and follow the instructions of the glide wrapper too bad that Diablo II site u posted is in dutch i think.. and i cant understand anything on that page

, neway my graphics still dont look how it does on older pc's Which sucks..

MEH

March 20th, 2005, 10:36 PM

Use Babel Fish to translate the page.

March 28th, 2005, 03:20 AM

The glide wrapper isn't going to improve your IQ really, though it does dramatically boost performance.

I'm guessing you are complaining about AA not smoothing things out, D2's sprites have some ugly artifacts and dithering thanks to the lossy compression they used. AA can smooth these artifacts out.

On some NVIDIAs and definitely Voodoos, AA was trully full-scene, it went and blended every single freaking pixel.

On ATI cards after a certain point, AA now only applies to pixels on the edges of polygons, no-where else. This is pretty useless for D2 which is basically sprites.

I tried looking for a hack that would do this older kind of AA but couldn't find any.

On the other hand, there are smartshaders. Put on the Blur one and those artifacts will bother you less. However I found this too blurred for my tastes and made reading text too difficult. If someone could code and implement a weaker blur then I imagine this will be perfect.

There are also some dithering issues but this is really only noticable on poison clouds and large puddles of blood.

Only other thing I can think of, though it would seem pretty obvious, is to flip perspective mode on or off.