I was having nasty HD chunking problems with DII on-line, especially at the start of a huge spawn-in battle or when entering new areas. I have 384 MB and a Voodoo3, so I'm not hurting for texture/bitmap caching room. I tried things like upping the memory parition, copying music to HD from CD, and even reading all the official Bliz Support stuff I could find about these problems. I couldn't bring myself to actually play in 640x480 after tasting the big screen
I found a partial solution in a comp.sys.mac.games... group posted by a supposed Bliz support guy: turn VM ON. Now I played a lot of FPS shooters on this machine and that's the one thing you never, never want to have to do. But go figure, I tried it out and reduced the memory partition back to it's nominal value (important as well) and things got a lot better. My standing FPS went up about 10 and the gameplay stutter (artificial lag) went way down in those two situations. My HD still chunks a lot, but it doesn't seem to affect the gameplay as badly as it did before.
I'm sure this isn't a help for everyone, but it does improve my game noticably.
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I found a partial solution in a comp.sys.mac.games... group posted by a supposed Bliz support guy: turn VM ON. Now I played a lot of FPS shooters on this machine and that's the one thing you never, never want to have to do. But go figure, I tried it out and reduced the memory partition back to it's nominal value (important as well) and things got a lot better. My standing FPS went up about 10 and the gameplay stutter (artificial lag) went way down in those two situations. My HD still chunks a lot, but it doesn't seem to affect the gameplay as badly as it did before.
I'm sure this isn't a help for everyone, but it does improve my game noticably.
Now you too can have friends! ;-)
http://www.battle.net/chat/friends.shtml
I guess I'll be making up a list tomorrow. Post yer login(s) for ease of use.
*ramsesiicp
Ramses II
umbleego
umbleego2
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Now you too can have friends! ;-)
http://www.battle.net/chat/friends.shtml I guess I'll be
making up a list tomorrow. Post yer login(s) for ease of use.
*ramsesiicp
Ramses II
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and mine is...
conner_cp
[url=http://mariusnet.clanplaid.net/]mariusnet home[/url]
[img]http://mariusnet.clanplaid.net/mariusnet.gif[/img]
mine is:
tcrother
Spit
charoncp
Alienate
Alienater
AlienateHC
but I do not use the battlenet command line interface crap, so i don't expect to be buddies with anyone.
N8
^A^ Apoc Home Page
I think I'm
bloodrain_cp
but I haven't had a chance to log on in a while, so I'm not sure. That's probably it.
Darklord_CP
and
Darklord's_hc's
Yes, you do need the "_". Diablo won't let you use spaces.
note: I tend to only play hardcore characters. So the latter login is where you'll find me.
Darklord
[quote]
Now you too can have friends! ;-)
http://www.battle.net/chat/friends.shtml I guess I'll be
making up a list tomorrow. Post yer login(s) for ease of use.
*ramsesiicp
Ramses II
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Login:cunbelin
By the way anyone else extremely dissapointed with the ending cutscene for LoD ?
heya Charon...errr ahhh.. I believe you are pointing to the wrong thread :P
Spit
try the previous thread titled...boo hiss
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