Diablo2LOD FPS weirdness.

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Sigillstun

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Hi there. I registered but haven't received the email to confirm my account yet.

I'm experiencing something extremely weird with my fps on diablo 2 LOD. I only play single player now as all the crap on Bnet got on my nerves too much. (not that I played multiplayer very much anyway.) The problem I'm having is something I noticed when I was using the modified d2gfx.dll to mule items to another character. (by having 2 instances of d2 open and TCP/IP'ing with myself.) I noticed when I hosted a TCP/IP game to mule that the game for some reason looked smoother than when the game was running in single player mode. At first I just thought it was my imagination but after using the /fps command on both a single player started game and a hosted TCP/IP multiplayer game, my fps in single player was at a steady 25 FPS, and when I was hosting a TCP/IP game, my FPS was showing 85 fps almost constantly!?!? This makes no sense to me! Why would my FPS be that much better when I am hosting a TCP/IP game than when playing a single player game?

Here's 2 screenshots showing what I mean.

Single player game
TCP/IP hosted game

What the.....? I really have NO idea why this is. It's really frustrating. If the game is able to run like that, why only in TCP/IP mode? I mean, I could just play in TCP/IP mode when I'm playing, but one of the things I really like about single player is the fact that the maps are saved, instead of being reset every game.

If anyone has any ideas for me, I would greatly appreciate the help.

My comp: Intel Celeron 1.7ghz, 512 DDR ram, intel 82845G graphics onboard video, Windows XP SP1.
 
Maybe some of the detail settings are turned down automatically in multiplayer, to reduce lag (and so it ends up going really fast because you are on a local network)

Don't know...

maybe single player gets slowed down by the map saving...

Anyway I manually enabled your forum account.
 
Thanks for enabling my account Rapmaster. :)

I suppose the map saving thing could reduce fps, but it seems almost like it's set at 25 fps. All the graphic settings stay the same regardless whether or not it's TCP/IP or single player...

Damn, I wish I could figure this out....:(

Edit: Isn't it a bit odd that I have a ping other than zero in a single player game? :confused:
 
Ok, that's cool. If anyone can think of anything I could try to get that smooth fps in a single player game, I'd be more than interested. I keep thinking there's got to be some way. If it runs that smooth one way, there should be a way to get it that smooth the single player way...
 
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