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Offline Kaiaatzl

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Re: D2X-XL performance vastly improved on low end graphics hardware
« Reply #15 on: March 02, 2011, 04:20:16 PM »
It's so obscure and harmless that it could go in the category of: "it's not a bug, it's a feature".

I'm writing the bug report now.
« Last Edit: March 02, 2011, 04:26:41 PM by wazzazzle »

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Re: D2X-XL performance vastly improved on low end graphics hardware
« Reply #16 on: March 02, 2011, 08:12:41 PM »
Save these little issues, however, judging from what I've seen, though, this has been a huge step forward for D2X-XL, Diedel, FYI. :D
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Re: D2X-XL performance vastly improved on low end graphics hardware
« Reply #17 on: March 03, 2011, 06:51:47 AM »
I'm looking forward to trying this new version. Thanks Diedel!  :D
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Re: D2X-XL performance vastly improved on low end graphics hardware
« Reply #18 on: March 03, 2011, 09:14:56 PM »
TechNor,

is the flickering walls problem still there?

Adding '-use_shaders 0' to config/d2x.ini didn't make any difference.  Sorry.

Here is a short video showing the flicker:  http://www.filedropper.com/d2x-xlflicker  (running D2X-XL ver 1.15.135)

I just (today) had the chance to try your newest version (ver. 1.15.141) ... and still flickers.

Other than the flicker, the program seems to run great.

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Re: D2X-XL performance vastly improved on low end graphics hardware
« Reply #19 on: March 03, 2011, 11:05:59 PM »
Why didn't you put it on Youtube? Because you didn't want to embarrass me? :D

Edit:

Ok, I got it. That looks bad. Haven't seen something like that myself so far though.
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Re: D2X-XL performance vastly improved on low end graphics hardware
« Reply #20 on: March 04, 2011, 05:50:18 AM »
I still have some testing to do.  Going to try a fresh install on a different system and if that installation doesn't flicker, I'll copy it to the flickering system and see what happens.  Hopefully, if the flicker is due to the video card being used ... I should know it then.

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Re: D2X-XL performance vastly improved on low end graphics hardware
« Reply #21 on: March 04, 2011, 06:29:13 AM »
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Why didn't you put it on Youtube?

I would imagine it's because he doesn't have an account on Youtube. Nor any reason to need one for that matter.
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