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EvilBill wrote:
> ~misfit~ wrote:
> > EvilBill wrote:
> > > Unfortunately the graphics card in my PC is on the fritz, so my
> > > return to the Tales of Her Speariness will have to wait till I can
> > > get a replacement!
> >
> > Don't be too long young feller! You don't need much of a graphics
> > card for D2. Heck, in 2D mode the old S3 8MB things I have kicking
> > around do the job just fine.
>
> True, but I don't have any spare AGP ones, just a PCI TNT2, and I
> think that'd struggle just to run XP, let alone some of the other
> games I enjoy. <g>

Actually, you'd be surprised. It'll run D2 in 2D mode just fine. As for 
running XP, don't tell me you have the eye-candy turned on? The first thing 
I do with a fresh XP install is right-click the desktop, go to "Themes" and 
click "Windows Classic". Then right click "My Computer", Properties, 
Advanced, Performance, Settings and tick the "Adjust for best performance" 
box. Then a 2MB PCI Cirrus Logic card (remember those?) will run XP.

Ok, the TNT2 won't run a lot of other games but it *will* run D2 in 2D mode 
(it'll give you the option of 3D when you run the video test, don't make the 
mistake of ticking it). I find that there is so little difference between 
the two modes in D2 that it's no big deal. A Celeron 500 and a TNT2 (or one 
of the multiple 8MB S3 Virge's that I seem to have accrued) will run it just 
fine.

Heh! There goes your excuse lad! Shame you're not more local to me, I have a 
ti4200 and a FX5600 both sitting in boxes. My /third/ machine is also 
running a ti4200 that is a bit overkill for what it does. (I made a point of 
spending any spare cash on any second-hand AGP cards I saw at a reasonable 
price over the last year. I'm not likely to be in a position to update my 
PCs soon so am trying to get some "spares" before all AGP cards disappear 
off the market and the second-hand price gets too high).

Oh, I have a 32MB TNT2 Ultra AGP sitting on the shelf too. <g> One of my 
machines, the one Shady uses as her second machine for D2, runs a PCI 32MB 
GF2. It doesn't have an AGP slot and the on-board graphics are abysmal (but 
will still run D2 playably, amazingly). I have another mobo the same, both 
running 1.4Ghz Celerons. (Nice, efficient CPUs. Shame I'm a bit short of RAM 
for them and it's twice the price of modern RAM..) However, PCI graphics 
cards with any grunt are like hen's teeth.
-- 
Shaun.