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John
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From: Marlton, NJ
Registered: Jul 2001

posted 15 July 2001 02:34     Click Here to See the Profile for John   Click Here to Email John        Reply w/Quote   
Has anyone experienced slowdown or choppiness with D2 or LOD in a single player game? My game will play fine for awhile and then it starts. It get to the point where is not playable. I'll have to save and exit and then go back in. It will be ok - then it will start up again.

Any help? Thanks.

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iowan
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Registered: Jan 2001

posted 15 July 2001 04:49     Click Here to See the Profile for iowan   Click Here to Email iowan        Reply w/Quote   Visit iowan's Homepage!
sounds to me like a RAM problem , please check your resources when the game gets slow , right click on " my computer " then " properties " and then the last tab ( i dunno what its named i have a dutch win 98 SE version ). if so u might wanna check out a ram manager , i myself use Cacheman which i find the best one .

http://www.outertech.com/

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RexxLaww
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Registered: Mar 2001

posted 21 July 2001 13:15     Click Here to See the Profile for RexxLaww   Click Here to Email RexxLaww        Reply w/Quote   Visit RexxLaww's Homepage!
Some tips to help game performance:

1 -> Go to www.blizzard.com/support and read the FAQ on speeding up the game. It will give you tips on how to set file usage, defragging, etc...

2 -> The old standby: Update your drivers for your video card...

3 -> RAM is dirt cheap ATM so it might be a good time to pick up a 128/256 stick of it. RAM is THE single biggest speed cruncher for Diablo 2. You cannot have enough of it.

4 -> Copy the copy all the *.mpq files from BOTH CD's (D2 and LOD) to the root D2 directory. The game will generally go looking there before the CD. Assuming of course you have the hard drive space for it. If not, see #3 above, but substitute the word RAM with Hard Drive.

5 -> If you are playing in 800*600 resolution, drop back to 640*480.

6 -> You can run D2 in a window (just like your internet browser), by right clicking on the icon for D2, selecting properties, and then going to the TARGET line and adding a -w at the end of it like this;

"C:\Diablo II\Diablo II.exe" -w

That should get you started.

Iowan: I downloaded Cacheman and it seems pretty nifty. Even with 198MB of RAM, D2 will take me down to 30% resources.
Thanks for the link!

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[This message has been edited by RexxLaww (edited 21 July 2001).]

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MPHG
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Registered: Jun 2001

posted 21 July 2001 14:23     Click Here to See the Profile for MPHG   Click Here to Email MPHG        Reply w/Quote   Visit MPHG's Homepage!
Only thing i'd like to say is why is this printed on the box when they know it make the game run like ****(i made those *'s)

d2 collector's edition
---single--
pentium 233
32MB Ram
650 Hard disk
4x cd-rom
---multi--
64MB ram
950MB hard disk
28.8 modem
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
d2x-pack
pentium 233
64MB RAM
800 MB hard disk
4x cd-rom
28.8 modem for battle.net
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Now i got a P3 16x cd-rom
128MB Ram lowest resolution
cable modem a 40 gig har drive

and i lag like a demon in hell
once i switch an act
I must keep music off or i lag worse
even if 5 people are on screen
I have all the cd's on hardrive except the files that need to be on cd music etc
and i'm about to get an extra 128 due to the lag factor. it's SICK!!!!

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