Improve Graphic Performance With A Glide †
What A Glide Wrapper Does? †
- Diablo II is optimized for Voodoo series video cards, which were popular among 3D gamers when it was released. Glide is the 3D graphics API for Voodoo cards, and D2 runs much faster in Glide mode than in other modes (Direct Draw/3D.) If you don't have a Voodoo, you can't select Glide mode.
- In short, a Glide wrapper lets other video cards than Voodoo work in Glide mode, to improve the graphic performance.
Which Glide Wrapper Do You Recommend? †
- This Glide Wrapper is recommended in Eastern Sun forum Glide Wrapper thread.
http://www.svenswrapper.de/english/downloads.html
- You can find many other Glide Wrappers, too, but this one is optimized for Diablo II, and would work better.
- If you are running Windows Vista with the Aero-theme activated, the Glide Wrapper will not function by default due to OpenGL conflicts. You can go around this issue by configuring your Eastern Sun shortcut: Go to the compatibility-tab at the shortcut properties, and enable 'Disable desktop compositing'. This setting will disable the Vista Aero-theme every time you run ES from the shortcut, which allows the Glide Wrapper to run properly.
General Tips †
Getting Started †
Starting out in Eastern Sun for the first time, or playing untwinked can be quite a challenge. Here are a few tips that should make it easier:
Tactics †
- You start out with a very low chance to hit, so go after easy targets like Fallen until you gain a couple levels.
- (Edit) All monsters' life was roughly doubled in R5, and characters are given 500 fulminating potions instead, which would let you gain a few levels with ease.
Monster | Level | Remarks | | Monster | Level | Remarks |
Fallen | 2 | | | Dark Spearwoman | 3 | Fast |
Quillrat | 2 | | | Gargantuan Beast | 3 | Stun |
Zombie | 2 | Slow | | Hungry Dead | 3 | Slow |
Dark Hunter | 3 | Fast | | Skeleton | 3 | |