[Guide] Median XL 2.0 with D2DX: New Glide wrapper

[davxd666]

ur all i ever wanted... yeah... ur all i ever needed... yeeaaah. so tell me what to do now... cuz i want.. to hack! and slash! in 60 fps! and now i can!

remarks: scosglen is looking weird in the edges of the screen with white flickering of the unrendered part or something, i think the icy mountanous background. also teh fire at beginning in tul dulra has a shadowy border around it.

island of skarta the light radius is very flickery.

[Lakai]

how do i do the number 4 on installation

"Run Diablo 2.exe with the following args:
Required: -3dfx (sets video mode to Glide)
Required: -dxnoresmod (turns off D2DX built-in widescreen resolution mod)"

[Becoming]

how do i do the number 4 on installation

"Run Diablo 2.exe with the following args:
Required: -3dfx (sets video mode to Glide)
Required: -dxnoresmod (turns off D2DX built-in widescreen resolution mod)"

Add the arguments in the "target" line of your shortcut. Like this:

[Lakai]

ok cool thanks it worked.
when i start it in window mode my mouse is locked and i cant resize or move the window. Can i change that?

[fixer_m]

when i start it in window mode my mouse is locked and i cant resize or move the window. Can i change that?

You can unlock mouse cursor with -dxnoclipcursor option. However I'm not sure if resizing game window by resize cursor is possible.

[Mafankulo]

If U install Reshade(DX11) u can also stretch the image to remove the black bars Using the aspect ration toggle/Shader

a fake 16:9 looks alright.

A bug i noticed is you cannot get over 60fps in the actual game. lobby runs at max but the in game it hovers then drops back to 60fps

[aerial]

stretched d2 looks like many things but definitely not alright

Btw, is there a way to start game in window of specific resolution? Scale parameter is integer only, it can go only to 2 or 3 which is too big.
Issue is, if i run it with 2, it cuts it to 184%, and i have maximized window with d2 in the middle of it. But i can't then resize that window, if i resize it to 4:3 window, it shrinks the black bars on the sides.



If i start game without scale, it opens up 124x768 small window, but then when i resize it, to whatever size i want, its blurry.

Resized window vs full screen:



edit:

Seems that nocompatmodefix=true and then selecting compatibility windows 7 fixes the problem, with that selected, resizing window keeps the sharpness.

#IfWinActive ahk_class Diablo II

F10::
{
WinMove, Diablo II,, x, y, z, q
}

; x,y - position of left upper corner of window
; z,q - window resolution

[fixer_m]

aerial,
Great! I have built version that supports floating scale value and tried it - worked like a charm. Windowed game image is sharp.
Let me know, if you want to test it.

[aerial]

ye sure, i want it

[fixer_m]

aerial,
Here it is. I've just built version with this PR.

It supports float scaling via config file:

[window]
scale=1.5 # range 1.0-3.0, a rational scale factor for the window