How To Make Diablo 2 Fullscreen
I have balck border from all my sides, and the display of diablo 2 if. The target line in the shortcut properties to make the end of it look like.
What exactly are the tradeoffs?1) I know the cinematics refuse to work, but I can live with that. What will happen when the game wants to play one automatically (eg. At the end of an act)? Will it skip it and load the next act, or will it crash?2) What's the deal with the colour depth also? I've heard people recommending windowed mode as it 'improves the colour', and it does look a little better to me. Diablo II uses 16 bit colours normally, doesn't it? If my desktop is at 32 bit, how is Diablo II displayed correctly?3) And most importantly, Diablo II uses 3D acceleration for things like perspective and spell effects, right?
I couldn't care less about perspective - it looks terrible, and I usually have it disabled anyway, but I'm not keen on losing any lighting effects for spells etc. What exactly is effected by NOT using 3D acceleration (as a result of running the game in windowed mode)? Quote from 'Diablo-Fiend' »2. The game runs at a maximum resolution of 800x600 and when you're running a 22' monitor or so at 1680x1050 or higher, that 800x600 looks really ugly because it gets stretched a lot.
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I found that playing in windowed mode improved my enjoyment of the game.I don't have any issues with stretching in normal ('fullscreen') mode as my monitor supports '1:1 Pixel Mapping'. This means it only uses 800x600 of its pixels to display the game and puts a black border around it (a very thick border in this case - the monitor's native res is 1920x1200!).My monitor also has a 'Stretch, But Maintain Aspect Ratio' mode, so it can enlarge the game to fill the screen vertically, but puts pillarboxing on either side to prevent horizontal stretching. This looks terrible though, because LCD's are poor scalers.Needless to say, if I decided not to use windowed mode, I'd be using 1:1 Pixel Mapping.
3) And most importantly, Diablo II uses 3D acceleration for things like perspective and spell effects, right? I couldn't care less about perspective - it looks terrible, and I usually have it disabled anyway, but I'm not keen on losing any lighting effects for spells etc. What exactly is effected by NOT using 3D acceleration (as a result of running the game in windowed mode)?The only things you can't see in window mode are those explicitly on '3D' mode or whatever it's called.
If you switch and run the game on regular mode, that would be exactly what you'd see in windowed mode. Skills and stuff don't look any different unless you run the game on its lowest settings, which applies to full screen or windowed mode, anyway.Basically, when I want to run through the whole game the slow way, I run full screen in the advanced 3D mode.
When I want to do runs, I run it in windowed mode. The former provides more depth, the latter more convenience. Certain programs, mostly Instant messenger ones, minimise Diablo II when someone types a message to you. Often it will minimise it at the worst possible time, also there is a delay in the minimising, depending if your computer has a lot of ram and/or a decent CPU.If you are playing in Windowed form, you can quickly hit the Diablo 2 bar in the task bar, restoring Diablo II to the top.Depending on your Computer than can also be a delay in restoring Diablo II after say AIM has minimised your game.This mostly occurs with AIM, MSN doesn't seem to do it. I've had AIM minimise my games when people messaged me, even though AIM is set up not to minimise stuff.That and the strecthing i guess is the difference I've noticed.
SEE PAGE 5 wrote:It's because on the reshade.me website, the.dll file doesn't work for Diablo II and the Reshade's website itself doesn't even support Diablo II or not included on the compatibility list, but I managed to make it work perfectly.And don't worry this tool is Open Source:PS: Whether you use/like it or not, I just want to hone my skills with this editing software and please forget those past screenshots I made because it's my old configurations. If you tried my latest link (Download), tell me what it looks like in gameplay, but it's okay if you didn't try it.
Feel free to move away from the thread if you're not interested peace everyone. Thank you.But if you're interested in this topic, but only didn't like my configuration, visit for more info.You can reconfigure it and might as well share here your screenshots, youtube, or twitch videos using your configured settings. Iwansquall wrote:Yerp, Ok i managed to make it work for newer reshade version.Forgot to add, that OP setting is seem ok but, seem like design for resolution bigger than 800x600 (glide setting for desktop)1.
How To Make Diablo 2 Fullscreen
Get reshade tool from the website2. Install as usual, by finding the d2 folder. Set it OpenGL. Set shader / texture folder just in case (for ppl with d2se)3. Open glide setting, I set to default, but I need the window size to be bigger.4.
Copy the opengl.dll from OP link (reshade's seem crash with pixel format missing etc)5. Add / remove fx that you wanted (if you customize your own)6. Reload the game, so reshade will remove all unused fx setting, making it faster to load next time.EDITEDPlayed around with layer.fx, lol now I have d3 UI weeeeeeeeeeeNah, it is just dumb overlay.
Dont worry the graphic setting, i preferred high contrast with high saturation/ with slightly tinted colour.
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