d2gx

D2GX is a Glide-wrapper for Diablo II on modern PC:s

Version 0.91.325

Features

• High performance DirectX 11 renderer.
• Behaves nicely in windowed mode.
• Modernized fullscreen mode with high quality scaling.
• Fixes startup glitches in older versions of the game.
• More graphical enhancements (tba).

Requirements

• Diablo 2: LoD 1.13c, 1.13d, or 1.14d (other versions untested).
• Windows 7 and above.
• A CPU with SSE2 support.
• Integrated graphics or discrete GPU with DirectX 11 support (feature level 10.0 required).

Compatibility

So far it has been tested as working with:

• D2 LoD 1.13c, 1.13d, 1.14d
• PlugY
• D2ModMaker

Installation

Copy the included "glide3x.dll" into your Diablo II folder.

Note that in some cases you may have to also download and install the Visual C++ runtime library from Microsoft: https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/vc_redist.x86.exe

The wrapper should work with PlugY, just make sure you have (at a minimum) -3dfx in the ini file:

[LAUNCHING]
Param=-3dfx

Usage

To run the game in windowed mode

• Game.exe -3dfx -w

To run the game in default fullscreen mode (800x600 scaled to desktop resolution):

• Game.exe -3dfx

To run the game in experimental fullscreen mode (800x540 "integer scaled" to 1920x1080):

• Game.exe -3dfx -gx1080

To get rid of the "GX" logo on the title screen, add -gxskiplogo to the command line.

To scale the window by 2x or 3x, add -gxscale2 or -gxscale3 to the command line. Note that if the Window doesn't fit on the desktop, the scale factor will be lowered.

Note that in-game resolution should be set to 800x600. Support for 640x480 has not been added yet.

Release history

0.91.325

• Fix mode switching flicker on startup in fullscreen modes.
• Fix mouse cursor being "teleported" when leaving the window in windowed mode.
• Fix mouse speed not being consistent with the desktop.
• Fix game looking fuzzy on high DPI displays.
• Improve frame time consistency/latency.
• Add experimental window scaling support.
• More performance improvements.

0.91.324

• Fix crash when hosting TCP/IP game.
• Speed up texture cache lookup.
• Changed to a slightly less insane version numbering scheme.

0.9.210323c

• Fix crash occurring after playing a while.

0.9.210323b:

• Add support for LoD 1.13d.
• Fix accidental performance degradation in last build.

0.9.210323:

• Add support for LoD 1.13c.
• Fix the delay/weird characters in the corner on startup in LoD 1.13c.
• Fix glitchy window movement/sizing on startup in LoD 1.13c.
• Performance improvements.

0.9.210322:

• Fix line rendering (missing exp. bar, rain, npc crosses on mini map).
• Fix smudged fonts.
• Default fullscreen mode now uses the desktop resolution, and uses improved scaling (less fuzzy).

0.9.210321b:

• Fix default fullscreen mode.

0.9.210321:

• Initial release.