LiveWare 3 and Diablo 2
This is a discussion about LiveWare 3 and Diablo 2 in the Windows Games category; Diablo 2 works fine under 2000 with LW3, however it seems to pause for a few seconds every hour or so. Has anyone else notice this?.
Diablo 2 works fine under 2000 with LW3, however it seems to pause for a few seconds every hour or so. Has anyone else notice this?
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DAMMIT i get the sluggest problem too AND my 800mhz K7 Athlon Freezes too
Its VERY annoying.. Ahh well waiting for blizzard 1.03 patch
Its VERY annoying.. Ahh well waiting for blizzard 1.03 patch
I have the same thing happen to me. But I assumed it's a 'normal' part of the game. Actually, I assumed it was yet another side effect of battle.net's less than 'stellar' performance.
I think I remember having those 'pauses' before I got Liveware 3.
Can anyone confirm or dispute this??
I think I remember having those 'pauses' before I got Liveware 3.
Can anyone confirm or dispute this??
I can't confirm or deny anything, but one to add is:
Avery now and then Diablo II saves the game state, so it could just be that that is what's happening when your machine pauses.
My machine also pauses briefly every now and then.
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PIII 650 Coppermine
Intel 440BX-2 Motherboard
2x128MB PC 100 RAM
Maxtor 92049U6 20.4GB 7200RPM UDMA66
Maxtor 52049U4 20.4GB 7200RPM UDMA66
Matrox Millenium G400 MAX
Sony DDU220E IDE DVD-ROM
Yamaha CRW4416S SCSI CD-RW
Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer USB
Microsoft SideWinder Force Feedback Pro
US Robotics Sportster Flash v90 External modem
Iiyama Vision Master Pro 17
3Com EtherLink XL PCI (3c900B Combo)
Adaptec 2940 Ultra Wide SCSI controller
Sound Blaster Live! Value
Windows 2000 Professional
Avery now and then Diablo II saves the game state, so it could just be that that is what's happening when your machine pauses.
My machine also pauses briefly every now and then.
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PIII 650 Coppermine
Intel 440BX-2 Motherboard
2x128MB PC 100 RAM
Maxtor 92049U6 20.4GB 7200RPM UDMA66
Maxtor 52049U4 20.4GB 7200RPM UDMA66
Matrox Millenium G400 MAX
Sony DDU220E IDE DVD-ROM
Yamaha CRW4416S SCSI CD-RW
Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer USB
Microsoft SideWinder Force Feedback Pro
US Robotics Sportster Flash v90 External modem
Iiyama Vision Master Pro 17
3Com EtherLink XL PCI (3c900B Combo)
Adaptec 2940 Ultra Wide SCSI controller
Sound Blaster Live! Value
Windows 2000 Professional
Hell the game pauses all the time at 3PM to 8PM and around 9PM the pauses start to disappear
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Supermicro P6DBE Rev 3.0 Motherboard
Dual Intel Pentium III 850
512 MEGS of ECC RAM
Sound Blaster Live!
Adaptec 29160 SCSI Card
GeForce 2 GTS 64MB
IBM DMVS18N Ultra 160 Hard Drive
Western Digital 20.5GB Hard Drive
Razer Boom Slang 2000 (USB)
Roland Sound Canvis SC-55
3COM 3CR990-TX-97 with 3XP Processor 10/100 PCI Network Interface Card
Plextor Plexwriter 12/4/32
Pioneer 10X DVD-ROM
Sony GDM-F500R Monitor
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Supermicro P6DBE Rev 3.0 Motherboard
Dual Intel Pentium III 850
512 MEGS of ECC RAM
Sound Blaster Live!
Adaptec 29160 SCSI Card
GeForce 2 GTS 64MB
IBM DMVS18N Ultra 160 Hard Drive
Western Digital 20.5GB Hard Drive
Razer Boom Slang 2000 (USB)
Roland Sound Canvis SC-55
3COM 3CR990-TX-97 with 3XP Processor 10/100 PCI Network Interface Card
Plextor Plexwriter 12/4/32
Pioneer 10X DVD-ROM
Sony GDM-F500R Monitor
I get those pauses, too. Problem is though, I am usually in a big fight when that happens, when it's over, my Necro is usually dead
I havent dl'ed Liveware 3.0, yet so it's (probably) not caused by that.
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My system specs:
PIII 600E @ 800 , 160mb PC100 3-3-3, Creative GeForce DDR, SBLive (never had any problems with it, yet. Liveware 2K works very fine for me), 15 GB IBM, Gigabyte BX2000@133, WinTV primio, Pioneer DVD 10x, Iiyama VM 451 (1280x1024@100Hz .
I havent dl'ed Liveware 3.0, yet so it's (probably) not caused by that.
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My system specs:
PIII 600E @ 800 , 160mb PC100 3-3-3, Creative GeForce DDR, SBLive (never had any problems with it, yet. Liveware 2K works very fine for me), 15 GB IBM, Gigabyte BX2000@133, WinTV primio, Pioneer DVD 10x, Iiyama VM 451 (1280x1024@100Hz .
No I'm not trying to start a 'my graphics card is better than yours' argument, but....
Please look at the connection here.
Everybody running an NVidia card of any description is having problems.
3DFX users aren't, but that's because Glide is supported.
Other cards (OK, I know there not as 'good' as the NVidia cards) aren't having problems.
NVidia posted something in an FAQ about turning off FSAA when running Diablo2.
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PIII 650 Coppermine, ABit BE6-II, 384MB PC100 RAM (Samsung), Matrox G400MAX, SB Live! Value, Intel 10/100 NIC, Adaptec 2940UW, IBM 7200 ATA66 22GB HD, IBM 7200 ATA66 20GB HD, Pioneer 32x/6x SCSI DVD, Yamaha 4416 SCSI CD-RW, Iomega Zip 100 SCSI Internal, Iiyama Vision Master Pro 410.
Windows 2000 Only
Please look at the connection here.
Everybody running an NVidia card of any description is having problems.
3DFX users aren't, but that's because Glide is supported.
Other cards (OK, I know there not as 'good' as the NVidia cards) aren't having problems.
NVidia posted something in an FAQ about turning off FSAA when running Diablo2.
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PIII 650 Coppermine, ABit BE6-II, 384MB PC100 RAM (Samsung), Matrox G400MAX, SB Live! Value, Intel 10/100 NIC, Adaptec 2940UW, IBM 7200 ATA66 22GB HD, IBM 7200 ATA66 20GB HD, Pioneer 32x/6x SCSI DVD, Yamaha 4416 SCSI CD-RW, Iomega Zip 100 SCSI Internal, Iiyama Vision Master Pro 410.
Windows 2000 Only
Runs fine with Liveware 3 drivers in NT5 on my Matrox G400.
well, I have seen it pause in Windows 98 and Windows Millennium..I can tell you, it's your installation of Diablo and the installation of Windows. Cause when it was pausing like this on my system. I just reinstalled Windows 2000 (or Windows 98/ME, whichever) it ran fine after that
Check out the FAQ on Blizzard's website. I was getting anoyed with a similar problem and it was just my cd-rom drive changing tracks. You can copy the music file from the "play" cd to your d2 install dir. to solve this problem.
Athlon 850 MHz
Abit Ka7 (ry bios)
256MB PC100 RAM
Geforce DDR (creative) 5.16 Ref drivers
Plextor 12/20 SCSI CD-ROM
IBM u2w SCSI HDD
Adaptec 2940UW
(2) 8MB Voodoo2
SB Live! (lw3 full install)
ISA Scportster 56k
Athlon 850 MHz
Abit Ka7 (ry bios)
256MB PC100 RAM
Geforce DDR (creative) 5.16 Ref drivers
Plextor 12/20 SCSI CD-ROM
IBM u2w SCSI HDD
Adaptec 2940UW
(2) 8MB Voodoo2
SB Live! (lw3 full install)
ISA Scportster 56k
What kind of HD do you have? 33/66? Do you have DMA turned on?
Bing
I´m wondering why my system (W2k, what else?) has some heavy harddrive activity in the middle of a big fight. Can´t be the soundfiles because I left them on the CD. Can´t be insufficent RAM ´cause I´ve got 256 MB. Excuse me if my english isn´t the best today, I´ve just finished Act 2, completely played through Act 3 and started with Act 4.
Guess I need a well... erm, bed now
I´m wondering why my system (W2k, what else?) has some heavy harddrive activity in the middle of a big fight. Can´t be the soundfiles because I left them on the CD. Can´t be insufficent RAM ´cause I´ve got 256 MB. Excuse me if my english isn´t the best today, I´ve just finished Act 2, completely played through Act 3 and started with Act 4.
Guess I need a well... erm, bed now
I had those pauses occuring quite frequently before I added 64mb to a total of 224mb RAM to my system (had to switch to 600E again because of the 8ns RAM... I wonder... My PC66-10ns Hyundai RAM works fine with 133 MHz).
I don't know why that changed it because I never have/had HDD accesses during the pauses, but I'm fine now
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Just beat Diablo 2nd time, first with a Necro, now with a Barbarian.
BTW: Playing Multiplayer with 2 Sorceresses sucks: One casts a lot of Meteor, the other one Blizzard and I can't see anything anymore. If I'm lucky I'm not dead afterwards .... .
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My system specs:
PIII 600E @ 800 , 160mb PC100 3-3-3, Creative GeForce DDR, SBLive (never had any problems with it, yet. Liveware 2K works very fine for me), 15 GB IBM, Gigabyte BX2000@133, WinTV primio, Pioneer DVD 10x, Iiyama VM 451 (1280x1024@100Hz .
I don't know why that changed it because I never have/had HDD accesses during the pauses, but I'm fine now
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Just beat Diablo 2nd time, first with a Necro, now with a Barbarian.
BTW: Playing Multiplayer with 2 Sorceresses sucks: One casts a lot of Meteor, the other one Blizzard and I can't see anything anymore. If I'm lucky I'm not dead afterwards .... .
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My system specs:
PIII 600E @ 800 , 160mb PC100 3-3-3, Creative GeForce DDR, SBLive (never had any problems with it, yet. Liveware 2K works very fine for me), 15 GB IBM, Gigabyte BX2000@133, WinTV primio, Pioneer DVD 10x, Iiyama VM 451 (1280x1024@100Hz .
Preacher: even with my system I do get some some hard drive "thrashing". I even got an out of vitual memory message last night while playing. It was not true (I had plenty of VM and real RAM free), but it displayed the message and my HDD started to freak out. The thing is it only happens to me after I have been running the game for a while, so it makes me thing there is a memory leak or some other kind of resource managment problem.
Athlon 850 MHz
Abit Ka7 (ry bios)
256MB PC100 RAM
Geforce DDR (creative) 5.16 Ref drivers
Plextor 12/20 SCSI CD-ROM
IBM u2w SCSI HDD
Adaptec 2940UW
(2) 8MB Voodoo2
SB Live!
ISA Sportster 56k
Athlon 850 MHz
Abit Ka7 (ry bios)
256MB PC100 RAM
Geforce DDR (creative) 5.16 Ref drivers
Plextor 12/20 SCSI CD-ROM
IBM u2w SCSI HDD
Adaptec 2940UW
(2) 8MB Voodoo2
SB Live!
ISA Sportster 56k
I have an extremely powerful computer...
800mhz K7 Athlon
Windows 2000 *heavily tuned* (beat a p3 1ghz at startup race. my time was 1/3 his
27 gig ultra dma66 hd
256 goldstar ram 133mhz
K7M board
Sound blaster LIVE! platinum w/ live! drive.
Iomega ZIP drive
Smart and Friendly 8x20 CD-R
Leadtek Winfast GeForce 256...
I have the same 'kind' of problems in Unreal Tournament as well :-\
I think its Liveware. Even the newest one doesnt work good
800mhz K7 Athlon
Windows 2000 *heavily tuned* (beat a p3 1ghz at startup race. my time was 1/3 his
27 gig ultra dma66 hd
256 goldstar ram 133mhz
K7M board
Sound blaster LIVE! platinum w/ live! drive.
Iomega ZIP drive
Smart and Friendly 8x20 CD-R
Leadtek Winfast GeForce 256...
I have the same 'kind' of problems in Unreal Tournament as well :-\
I think its Liveware. Even the newest one doesnt work good
I think it's your crappy mobos.
P3550@630 115mhz fsb X5.5
matrox G400
128m PC-100
Abit BE6
NO probs here.
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C:\Dos
C:\Dos\Run
\Run\Dos\Run
P3550@630 115mhz fsb X5.5
matrox G400
128m PC-100
Abit BE6
NO probs here.
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C:\Dos
C:\Dos\Run
\Run\Dos\Run
Hello there,
I had the same problems, but it is not LiveWare 3! I used the Win2k built in drivers
with Diablo2 and I had the same problem.
Then I decided to switch from D3D to DirectDraw 2D and now it works fine! I've beaten Diablo now for 3 times and the problem came never up again.
It's your 3D Accelerator card:
I tested 3 Boards:
ATI RagePro
nVidia Riva TNT
S3 Savage2000
They all work fine in DDraw, but in D3D there is a heavy loading activity while playing the game. I think it is a buggy driver. I tested different AGP Aperture size settings: it didn't help.
I had the same problems, but it is not LiveWare 3! I used the Win2k built in drivers
with Diablo2 and I had the same problem.
Then I decided to switch from D3D to DirectDraw 2D and now it works fine! I've beaten Diablo now for 3 times and the problem came never up again.
It's your 3D Accelerator card:
I tested 3 Boards:
ATI RagePro
nVidia Riva TNT
S3 Savage2000
They all work fine in DDraw, but in D3D there is a heavy loading activity while playing the game. I think it is a buggy driver. I tested different AGP Aperture size settings: it didn't help.
I forgot somthing (hehe...)
My hardware:
Abit BP6
256 MB 100 MHz
2x Celeron 400 (not much but it rocks!)
Diamond Viper II
SB Live! 1024 Player
ATA66 HDD
perhaps it helps someone!?
My hardware:
Abit BP6
256 MB 100 MHz
2x Celeron 400 (not much but it rocks!)
Diamond Viper II
SB Live! 1024 Player
ATA66 HDD
perhaps it helps someone!?
I forgot somthing (hehe...)
My hardware:
Abit BP6
256 MB 100 MHz
2x Celeron 400 (not much but it rocks!)
Diamond Viper II
SB Live! 1024 Player
ATA66 HDD
perhaps it helps someone!?
My hardware:
Abit BP6
256 MB 100 MHz
2x Celeron 400 (not much but it rocks!)
Diamond Viper II
SB Live! 1024 Player
ATA66 HDD
perhaps it helps someone!?
