01-01-2014, 07:43 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-01-2014, 07:52 PM by Slayer_X64.)
Nice stuff!!! I'll have to give it a try!!!
As for the StrangeBytes Patch, It itself is relatively unstable, but I have found ways to make it act much more stable (at least for playing the game for 4+ hours at a time, I've managed to avert crashes). And its a good thing because its the only way i've found yet to make Diablo run properly on say, an AMD R9 280X (because newer graphics cards like this are simply not compatible, even with the previous colorfix methods - part of me thinks this is some sort of driver issue. Hopefully it will be corrected in the future, but there's no telling if it will or not, so until then I came up with a solution for it). Here's what I do:
1) I set Diablo's compatibility options to run as administrator.
2) I edit Diablopatch.ini and set fullscreen to 1. for best stability I will also choose a 4:3 resolution, like 640x480 or 800x600 (though you can get the game stable with a widescreen resolution, its just a little bit more of a hassle - I've done this for myself personally, but more for the fact that whenever my monitor changes resolutions, it pops up an annoying message telling me such. If you do run it widescreen, VSYNC MUST be turned on, or else the screen tearing will be awful.)
3) I make a batch file to run the game with the following code:
start /affinity 1 Diablo.exe
the reason for this is because this patch doesnt seem to have taken Diablo's multicore issues into account, and that is what causes most of the crashes (the other half being caused by ddraw access violations, which can be averted through a combination of the resolution thing above, and rebooting your computer every so often.)
4) I restart my computer. This is probably the most important step, because if you dont do this, you will run into access violation errors, and will get crashes galore. With a fresh start though, the game still gets these errors on occassion but seems to recover from them as to not crash. But everytime I want to play diablo with this patch method, I always restart my computer first and then boot up the game - after that everything works fine.
As for Debug mode, I dont think that has any effect on stability - all it does is tell you why the game crashes. I dont believe I've had it turned on ever since I got things working properly.
Perhaps give that a try? Hopefully it helps you guys out a little bit.
Also, running screen capture software such as fraps can make the game unstable, especially if you leave the frame counter on. Turn off your frame counter, and if you are going to make a video recording, start off by "warming up" the game with a couple of 2 second dummy recordings in game before you actually start playing. Also I've found the game doesnt seem to do well if you try recording video on the main menu screen. Just something to note for future reference I suppose - If you want to record anything now, you'll likely have to do it from in-game in order to get any good results.
I will test this way and see how it works. Let me know if this helps!
As for the StrangeBytes Patch, It itself is relatively unstable, but I have found ways to make it act much more stable (at least for playing the game for 4+ hours at a time, I've managed to avert crashes). And its a good thing because its the only way i've found yet to make Diablo run properly on say, an AMD R9 280X (because newer graphics cards like this are simply not compatible, even with the previous colorfix methods - part of me thinks this is some sort of driver issue. Hopefully it will be corrected in the future, but there's no telling if it will or not, so until then I came up with a solution for it). Here's what I do:
1) I set Diablo's compatibility options to run as administrator.
2) I edit Diablopatch.ini and set fullscreen to 1. for best stability I will also choose a 4:3 resolution, like 640x480 or 800x600 (though you can get the game stable with a widescreen resolution, its just a little bit more of a hassle - I've done this for myself personally, but more for the fact that whenever my monitor changes resolutions, it pops up an annoying message telling me such. If you do run it widescreen, VSYNC MUST be turned on, or else the screen tearing will be awful.)
3) I make a batch file to run the game with the following code:
start /affinity 1 Diablo.exe
the reason for this is because this patch doesnt seem to have taken Diablo's multicore issues into account, and that is what causes most of the crashes (the other half being caused by ddraw access violations, which can be averted through a combination of the resolution thing above, and rebooting your computer every so often.)
4) I restart my computer. This is probably the most important step, because if you dont do this, you will run into access violation errors, and will get crashes galore. With a fresh start though, the game still gets these errors on occassion but seems to recover from them as to not crash. But everytime I want to play diablo with this patch method, I always restart my computer first and then boot up the game - after that everything works fine.
As for Debug mode, I dont think that has any effect on stability - all it does is tell you why the game crashes. I dont believe I've had it turned on ever since I got things working properly.
Perhaps give that a try? Hopefully it helps you guys out a little bit.
Also, running screen capture software such as fraps can make the game unstable, especially if you leave the frame counter on. Turn off your frame counter, and if you are going to make a video recording, start off by "warming up" the game with a couple of 2 second dummy recordings in game before you actually start playing. Also I've found the game doesnt seem to do well if you try recording video on the main menu screen. Just something to note for future reference I suppose - If you want to record anything now, you'll likely have to do it from in-game in order to get any good results.
I will test this way and see how it works. Let me know if this helps!
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Vision milky, then eyes rot
When you turn they will be gone
Whispering their hidden song
Then you see what cannot be
Shadows move where light should be
Out of darkness, out of mind
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