Vista Tutorial - Diablo 2 - Poor Performance

I just bought a new laptop and installed D2 on it. I can get the game to
run, but as soon as there's any video demand my frame-rates drop from 50-60
fps to single digits.

Is there any way to tweak video settings to get around this?

The game worked great on my older laptop even though it had half the memory
and a much slower processor.

Thanks in advance for the help.

"Counter_Strike" <Counter_Strike@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I just bought a new laptop and installed D2 on it. I can get the game to
> run, but as soon as there's any video demand my frame-rates drop from
> 50-60
> fps to single digits.
>
> Is there any way to tweak video settings to get around this?
>
> The game worked great on my older laptop even though it had half the
> memory
> and a much slower processor.
>
> Thanks in advance for the help.

New Laptop, I was unaware that there was only 1 kind of laptop out there.
</sarcasim>

Post your system specs, be through as possible.

-a.

Vista requires about a gig of memory to run smoothly (and that's with a lot
of the features disabled) so hopefully you only need to upgrade your RAM,
and not your video card or anything a bit more pricy

"Andy" <android8675@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Counter_Strike" <Counter_Strike@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:F8DD2E2E-5C6D-4263-ACCC-736F0BB38B51@microsoft.com...
>>I just bought a new laptop and installed D2 on it. I can get the game to
>> run, but as soon as there's any video demand my frame-rates drop from
>> 50-60
>> fps to single digits.
>>
>> Is there any way to tweak video settings to get around this?
>>
>> The game worked great on my older laptop even though it had half the
>> memory
>> and a much slower processor.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for the help.
>
> New Laptop, I was unaware that there was only 1 kind of laptop out there.
> </sarcasim>
>
> Post your system specs, be through as possible.
>
> -a.

well whenever i try to download D2 on my laptop with basic window vista it says

THIS PROGRAM HAS KNOWN INSTALLATION ISSUES then i hit run anyways, and it just says you computer has enounterd a fatal error and were shutting down for safty reasons...does anyone no a way to d/l D2 on to vista so it runs normal. if so please emailme at Zpotter1@comcast.net ty

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I installed D2 on my Vista machine with 1 gig ram, it ran very badly, I
increased it to 2gig and D2 runs fine now


"KSib" <xzerokps@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Vista requires about a gig of memory to run smoothly (and that's with a
> lot of the features disabled) so hopefully you only need to upgrade your
> RAM, and not your video card or anything a bit more pricy
>
> "Andy" <android8675@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:6FAA4972-1EF4-4FC9-B515-E3910BC84EAE@microsoft.com...
>> "Counter_Strike" <Counter_Strike@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>> message news:F8DD2E2E-5C6D-4263-ACCC-736F0BB38B51@microsoft.com...
>>>I just bought a new laptop and installed D2 on it. I can get the game to
>>> run, but as soon as there's any video demand my frame-rates drop from
>>> 50-60
>>> fps to single digits.
>>>
>>> Is there any way to tweak video settings to get around this?
>>>
>>> The game worked great on my older laptop even though it had half the
>>> memory
>>> and a much slower processor.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for the help.
>>
>> New Laptop, I was unaware that there was only 1 kind of laptop out there.
>> </sarcasim>
>>
>> Post your system specs, be through as possible.
>>
>> -a.
>