Turns out that, not only does Diablo II run just fine under Jaguar, it runs faster. Cool! It managed to keep at least 20 FPS with the frame rate display and the full-screen map showing. Granted, in 256 color software-only display with all the quality settings cranked down to nothing, but still that's better than it did under 10.1.5.
It's amazing how much the graphics card makes a difference. This laptop's a 600MHz G3, but it has an utterly crappy card with crappy drivers. My old HP laptop ran at 450MHz with a PIII, but it had a slightly nicer graphics card with good drivers that used them, and it was only slightly worse than this. (Okay, with the frame display and map going it averaged around 18 FPS, but it was better with the frame display off)
I can't wait for better card drivers, if there ever will be any. I can hope, at least...
Posted by Dan at October 14, 2002 10:46 AM