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Diablo 1 - screen tearing issues

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First post, by SuperPie

Posted on 2008-07-08, 21:42

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Hi,

I have a P4-3Ghz with Nvidia Ti-4200 128MB desktop. XP Pro with all latest updates.

I don't play many games on it, and when I do it's usually emulators. So I never really noticed this problem before, but on 2D Windows games I have really bad screen tearing. Most emulators have built-in triple buffering or vsync and they always work great for me. Funny thing is the only one that doesn't is DOSbox (very choppy with buffering on, odd because all other emus run smooth).

Games-wise, in particular I tried Diablo 1 today, and noticed the screen tearing when the character walked around.

I tried every possible setting in my Nvidia driver (vsync on, triple buffer on) and also used RivaTuner to force those same things. I guess those settings only affect certain things that Diablo 1 doesn't use. Changing refresh rate didn't make much difference either, I tried 60Hz and 75Hz.

I tried a few other 2D Windows games and found the same result - terrible screen tearing. For example, Eternal Daughter (freeware game).

Can anyone help me fix the screen tearing in 2D?

Thanks!

Reply 1 of 19, by eL_PuSHeR

Posted on 2008-07-09, 07:10

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Reply 2 of 19, by SuperPie

Posted on 2008-07-09, 07:43

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But it's a Windows game, and I'm not using DosBox to run it. Thats why I posted it in the Windows games forum, not here.

Reply 3 of 19, by leileilol

Posted on 2008-07-09, 07:53

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SuperPie wrote:
But it's a Windows game, and I'm not using DosBox to run it. Thats why I posted it in the Windows games forum, not here.

yep
i dont' understand why this topic was moved, it's well known fact that Diablo is a windows game
p.s. I get screen tearing on ATI too

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Reply 4 of 19, by wd

Posted on 2008-07-09, 09:30

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Reply 5 of 19, by MiniMax

Posted on 2008-07-09, 11:57

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Reply 6 of 19, by eL_PuSHeR

Posted on 2008-07-09, 12:47

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Heh heh my fault. I read something about DOSBox. I forgot Diablo was a Windows game. Mea culpa. 😎

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Reply 7 of 19, by wd

Posted on 2008-07-09, 14:06

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Mea culpa.

I was reading it the same way. He explicitly stated that it only occurs with dosbox.

Reply 8 of 19, by Davros

Posted on 2008-07-10, 21:40

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have you tried forcing vsync ?

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Reply 9 of 19, by leileilol

Posted on 2008-07-11, 03:33

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Davros wrote:
have you tried forcing vsync ?

That option usually only applies to Direct3D/OpenGL accelerated games however

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Reply 10 of 19, by swaaye

Posted on 2008-07-11, 20:05

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Back in Win9x there was a way to force vsync for Directdraw. No idea how to do that today though.

Reply 11 of 19, by ZellSF

Posted on 2008-07-17, 16:08

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Go to the DirectX Diagnostic Tool - More help to override DirectDraw refresh behavior. I don't know if that would help against screen tearing though.

Reply 12 of 19, by dudalb

Posted on 2008-07-29, 02:29

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This is wierd,since Diablo has a reputation for getting along fine with new computers. It even likes Vista.
I have a duo core running XP SP3 with a Nividia 8600 card, and Diablo runs fine..no problems.
Because it happens on both ATI and Nividia it seems to be a directX problem on some system rather then a Video Card Driver problem.
I would try, if you are running on XP or Vista, compatability mode, then switching to 16 bit color or, if that fails, turning down the acclerations features on your video card.
I might even contact Blizzard support. Usually this is hopeless for a game that is 12 years old but Blizzard does seem to pride itself on it's support and takes a geniune interest in it's older games.

Reply 13 of 19, by swaaye

Posted on 2008-07-30, 22:09

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Rivatuner's D3DOverrider has an option to force vsync with Directdraw.

Reply 14 of 19, by UK_John

Posted on 2009-03-07, 00:23

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All the above does not make a difference to me - as I get is being asked for the CD when the CD is in there after installing!!

Reply 15 of 19, by ratfink

Posted on 2009-03-07, 13:01

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Have you tried using an older video driver?

Reply 16 of 19, by UK_John

Posted on 2009-03-07, 14:23

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ratfink wrote:
Have you tried using an older video driver?

Rather than go down that route I copied all the files ofthe CD, then burned them back on a DVD-R disk and then installed from that with no problem. I suppose someone is going to call me a games pirate now! 😀

Reply 17 of 19, by Davros

Posted on 2009-03-08, 11:53

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UK_John wrote:

I suppose someone is going to call me a games pirate now! 😀

Thats because you Arrrrr 😀

Reply 18 of 19, by UK_John

Posted on 2009-03-09, 00:13

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Davros wrote:
UK_John wrote:

I suppose someone is going to call me a games pirate now! 😀

Thats because you Arrrrr 😀

If you were a young man called James, I would reply Arrrrr Jim Lad!!! 😀

Reply 19 of 19, by pjpsyco

Posted on 2009-04-02, 01:15

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Did you patch the game to the most recent 1.09 version?

I had an early copy, it gave me troubles (It was bundled with Starcraft and Warcraft II without their expansions). When I got that one patched to 1.09 it worked. The one I got when I bought the Diablo II battle chest has never had any problems.

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