1) I know the cinematics refuse to work, but I can live with that. What will happen when the game wants to play one automatically (eg. at the end of an act)? Will it skip it and load the next act, or will it crash?
2) What's the deal with the colour depth also? I've heard people recommending windowed mode as it 'improves the colour', and it does look a little better to me. Diablo II uses 16 bit colours normally, doesn't it? If my desktop is at 32 bit, how is Diablo II displayed correctly?
3) And most importantly, Diablo II uses 3D acceleration for things like perspective and spell effects, right? I couldn't care less about perspective - it looks terrible, and I usually have it disabled anyway, but I'm not keen on losing any lighting effects for spells etc. What exactly is effected by NOT using 3D acceleration (as a result of running the game in windowed mode)?
Yeah, it looks like I wont be spending any more points on Critical Strike, and I'll be keeping a very close eye on the percentages of my other passive skills.
This attack, and any mana burn attackers (minion or unique), will drain ALL of your mana regardless how much you have.
Thanks, that's what I wanted to know.
OK, so it looks like I'm putting few (if any) points on Energy this time. My top priority is Strength (for armor), and then life. I don't think I need dexterity, as I barely ever use a melee attack unless the enemy is immune to fire.
yah, when your killing baal and he sucks all your mana with the blue attack thingy, your srewed
Do you know how long it takes Baal to empty a character with very high Mana? Does that blue spell take away a certain amount of Mana, or just empty the Mana orb completely?
I've never actually taken any of my Sorceresses that far (I don't like the LoD expansion all that much), but I do know the spell you mean - I just killed Baal with an Amazon, and he was being a right pain in the arse preventing me from re-casting my Valkyrie.
My specialty in Diablo II has always been an inferno Sorceress, with skill points allocated to something like 45% Warmth 45% Inferno and 10% Fire Mastery. All my stat points are usually divided between Strength and Energy.
Recently, my brother decided to follow this example, but with one major difference: He didn't allocate ANY points to Energy.
When he told me, I thought he was mad - a Sorceress with no points on Energy sounds utterly ridiculous. But then I started to think about it; with high levels of Warmth, you don't really need all that much mana because it regenerates so fast, and leaving Energy at default would leave you with all those additional points to put towards Vitality etc.
Indeed, my brother seems to be doing just fine with his level 27 Sorceress with her Energy at just 35. Sure, he has to carry a few Mana potions in his belt for the occasional burst of heavy combat, but that seems a trivial price to pay for all the extra points he has on Vitality, and all the benifits that brings (eg. high Stamina).
So I'm thinking of ignoring Energy with the Sorceress I'm starting just now. Can anyone think of a potential issue with having a Sorceress with only, say, 40 Energy?
What's happened to my Amazon's Critical Strike? I intended to take it to level 20 however, apon reaching level 16, I noticed that the percentage was no longer rising:
Why does the official Diablo III site hate me so much.
I have to refresh three or four yimes just to get it to actually load the home page (the first few tries just result in a black or partially loaded page, and then when I finally manage click on a button (eg. 'Character Classes'), it instantly shuts down my browser without so much as an error message.
I've tried turning off my AV/firewall software, but it made no difference.
Why do you lose certain graphical options when playing Diablo II LoD in a window. I noticed that the "Perspective" option was greyed out.
Now, I don't really care about perspective - it looks terrible and I ususally have it disabled anyway, but do I lose anything else in windowed mode? Diablo II uses D3D accelerated spell effects etc. doesn't it? Will I lose them.
So far the biggest problem I have discovered with windowed Diablo II is that cinematics won't play.
This might sound like a stupid question, but is there any way to have the original Diablo II menu (both the visual and audio elements) in Lord of Destruction?
To put it simply, I don't like the LoD menu visual scheme and music - or at least, not as much as I liked Diablo II's.
I like the waves of nostalgia I get when I see the original backroung pictures and hear the old title track.
Yea I've seen that long a go.. I think it might be a problem with 9800 series radeons.. but it didn't really affect on gameplay in other areas. I had 9800SE.
If you play 640x480 I think you don't see that.
You might wanna try Glidewrapper which is an application that allows you to use the glide graphical mode in D2 even without those old 3dfx graphic cards.
Thanks, I'll try that.
Never tried 640x480 - If the glide wrapper thing doesn't work, then I'm sure I can live with 640x480 on that PC.
I ressurected one of my old PC's for the purpose of Diablo II LAN games, however, something causes strange gltches in the games graphics when played on that PC.
I noticed it first in Lut Gholein. I was walking around the town when I began to see black squares around the edge of the screen - like the game was having trouble loading in tiles or something.
Now, the PC in question may be old, but it's specs are perfectly adequate for Diablo II:
I wonder why Blizzard still hasn't released an official No CD patch for the original Diablo, since they have just recently done it for Diablo 2. :confused:
C'mon Blizz, a No CD for Diablo 1 is way overdue. Pretty please, pretty please.
I was also hoping for an official No CD fix, but I doubt they are going to release one - they would have done it already.
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1) I know the cinematics refuse to work, but I can live with that. What will happen when the game wants to play one automatically (eg. at the end of an act)? Will it skip it and load the next act, or will it crash?
2) What's the deal with the colour depth also? I've heard people recommending windowed mode as it 'improves the colour', and it does look a little better to me. Diablo II uses 16 bit colours normally, doesn't it? If my desktop is at 32 bit, how is Diablo II displayed correctly?
3) And most importantly, Diablo II uses 3D acceleration for things like perspective and spell effects, right? I couldn't care less about perspective - it looks terrible, and I usually have it disabled anyway, but I'm not keen on losing any lighting effects for spells etc. What exactly is effected by NOT using 3D acceleration (as a result of running the game in windowed mode)?
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Yeah, it looks like I wont be spending any more points on Critical Strike, and I'll be keeping a very close eye on the percentages of my other passive skills.
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Thanks, that's what I wanted to know.
OK, so it looks like I'm putting few (if any) points on Energy this time. My top priority is Strength (for armor), and then life. I don't think I need dexterity, as I barely ever use a melee attack unless the enemy is immune to fire.
Thanks for the input guys.
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Do you know how long it takes Baal to empty a character with very high Mana? Does that blue spell take away a certain amount of Mana, or just empty the Mana orb completely?
I've never actually taken any of my Sorceresses that far (I don't like the LoD expansion all that much), but I do know the spell you mean - I just killed Baal with an Amazon, and he was being a right pain in the arse preventing me from re-casting my Valkyrie.
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Recently, my brother decided to follow this example, but with one major difference: He didn't allocate ANY points to Energy.
When he told me, I thought he was mad - a Sorceress with no points on Energy sounds utterly ridiculous. But then I started to think about it; with high levels of Warmth, you don't really need all that much mana because it regenerates so fast, and leaving Energy at default would leave you with all those additional points to put towards Vitality etc.
Indeed, my brother seems to be doing just fine with his level 27 Sorceress with her Energy at just 35. Sure, he has to carry a few Mana potions in his belt for the occasional burst of heavy combat, but that seems a trivial price to pay for all the extra points he has on Vitality, and all the benifits that brings (eg. high Stamina).
So I'm thinking of ignoring Energy with the Sorceress I'm starting just now. Can anyone think of a potential issue with having a Sorceress with only, say, 40 Energy?
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Current Skill Level: 16 = 65 Percent Chance
Next Level = 65 Percent Chance
What gives?
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I have to refresh three or four yimes just to get it to actually load the home page (the first few tries just result in a black or partially loaded page, and then when I finally manage click on a button (eg. 'Character Classes'), it instantly shuts down my browser without so much as an error message.
I've tried turning off my AV/firewall software, but it made no difference.
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Now, I don't really care about perspective - it looks terrible and I ususally have it disabled anyway, but do I lose anything else in windowed mode? Diablo II uses D3D accelerated spell effects etc. doesn't it? Will I lose them.
So far the biggest problem I have discovered with windowed Diablo II is that cinematics won't play.
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To put it simply, I don't like the LoD menu visual scheme and music - or at least, not as much as I liked Diablo II's.
I like the waves of nostalgia I get when I see the original backroung pictures and hear the old title track.
So is it possible to switch the menu?
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Thanks, I'll try that.
Never tried 640x480 - If the glide wrapper thing doesn't work, then I'm sure I can live with 640x480 on that PC.
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Hehe, exactly what I was thinking.
It is an excellent piece of artwork though.
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I noticed it first in Lut Gholein. I was walking around the town when I began to see black squares around the edge of the screen - like the game was having trouble loading in tiles or something.
Now, the PC in question may be old, but it's specs are perfectly adequate for Diablo II:
Radeon 9800XT
1GB DDR RAM
MSI K7N2 (nForce 2)
Athlon XP 1700+
There are no other issues - no lag etc., just these black squares.
Any ideas?
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I was also hoping for an official No CD fix, but I doubt they are going to release one - they would have done it already.