Taem wrote:Captcha wrote:Taem wrote:This whole topic is kind of pointless, don't you think? D2R is written with entirely new code with a 3D engine. Whatever bugs were present due to gfx or 3D limitations in d2 won't be present in d2r at all... you do realize that, don't you? Now if the issue you are describing is mod related, then that makes sense, but comparing MXL to d2r is pretty ridiculous.
But it isn't. The devs have said that they kept the old d2 code but the graphics have been redeveloped.
Your assumption that the freezing is purely a graphics issue is rather strange - I'm guessing you've never done any development work. The most likely reason for this is that when the bug occurs, it causes the engine to fail to issue commands to the merc. If it were purely a display issue there's a high chance of different symptoms, it would probably catch up at least some of the time, possibly on some hardware but not others, or the game might behave as if the merc were there even though he doesn't seem to be etc etc.
When you can go and stand next to him in a quiet place, even after taking a wp to an unpopulated area and he does nothing... under any circumstances... that's not likely to be a display issue.
I do understand what you are saying, but I also disagree because even if they kept *most* of the origin code, all the gfx code was rewritten for a 3D engine from what I understand. It may look 2d and isometric, but it is not. If the issue is not present in d2r, but is present in vanilla, then I would argue the issue is exactly this. However, I don't pay too much attention to my Merc and I have never noticed my Merc freeze in place before, so I may not he the best judge of this behavior.
Based on what you've written, I'm not sure that you do understand what I'm saying.
(1) I don't believe that it is or ever has been present in vanilla, that's what I've been saying.
(2) As I tried to explain to you, you are talking about graphics-related code but you seem unable to understand that the bug is almost certainly nothing to do with graphics code - it's about engine code (since it's about a merc DOING nothing, not APPEARING to do nothing).