Help with Radeon Le and Diablo 2 LOD

[Justorq]

Hi I'm having very choppy (really slow) game performance with this game ... What can I do to improve it ?
Can someone help ?

 

[AEboy128]

I believe LOD takes more power to run. Look for patches for LOD, there may be one.

 

[Justorq]

I have the newest patch... I don't think that LOD would take that much power ... especially when I'm running it at 640x480 instead of 800x600...
Anyways... I don't really know what's the prob... I hate THIS!
It is extremely choppy... I'd say a max of 10fps which is pretty low !

 

[Nelmster]

I'm not saying it's NOT your Radeon LE, but that is what I'm using. Runs great...

 

[Justorq]

Nelmster, what are your settings for your Radeon LE ?

 

[Justorq]

No one knows about this problem ... or is that my comp isn't up to par with the game's requirements !

 

[DJediMaster]

Choose directdraw as the video mode. I have the same card and i get horrible fps when running under direct3d. Others over at the rage3d board are experiencing the same thing. I believe it is an issue with the radeon.

 

[Nelmster]

I'm using Radeon Tweaker as my overclocking program, and it runs at 189 all day long. I never did the BIOS flash trick; I just used this program. As far as my settings go, I just chose whatever Radeon Tweaker "recommended". If you don't have it, download and install it. It has probably 50-70 settings, and gives a "recommended" setting for each one.

Now, as far as DII LOD goes, I am currently running Direct3D and the very sweet 800 x 600 resolution. I haven't even tried running it in DirectDraw mode.

I WILL say that I noticed this. I was previously running my Duron 750 -> 950. When I was at this speed, everything was perfect. Now, however, I'm running at 850 (slapped an 80mm onto my PAL6035 to cut down on the noise). I run about 2-4C warmer, but it's quieter. What I DO notice is that if I turn on the MAP in D2 LOD, I can barely notice that it is getting choppy. As soon as I turn off the map, it runs perfectly, even with a screen full of 20-30 monsters.

 

[MWink]

Are you running it on the K6 system in your sig??? I have seen D2 on a K6 system and it runs really slow. You may need a faster CPU.

 

[Justorq]

Yeah I'm running on my k6-3+ ... but I didn't think that was the problem... oh well... sucks to be me... thanks anyways guys
btw, I do have Radeon tweaker and it's running at 166 and with the recommended settings.