"[I] fired up both games and put my Mac in windowed mode (Command-M) and the jerkyness disappered!
For some strange reason OpenGL seems to work better that way instaed of full screen. So strange."
When you put the game into Window Mode using (Command-M), the game is no longer using OpenGL graphics - it's using the software renderer. Not only is OpenGL not the greatest for Diablo II because it has never been properly optimized for that mode (Glide is best, followed by Rave as a distant second, then OpenGL), but OpenGL isn't really mature under Mac OS X, PLUS NVidea cards, such as your GeForce2MX, have special problems with Diablo II which make them much worse than otherwise-comparable ATI cards.
Try running the game in full-screen mode but with the graphics in Software Mode and you should have quite decent performance, pretty much identical to the performance you have in Window Mode.
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Window Mode *is* Software Mode - JohnMHammer
"[I] fired up both games and put my Mac in windowed mode (Command-M) and the jerkyness disappered! For some strange reason OpenGL seems to work better that way instaed of full screen. So strange."When you put the game into Window Mode using (Command-M), the game is no longer using OpenGL graphics - it's using the software renderer. Not only is OpenGL not the greatest for Diablo II because it has never been properly optimized for that mode (Glide is best, followed by Rave as a distant second, then OpenGL), but OpenGL isn't really mature under Mac OS X, PLUS NVidea cards, such as your GeForce2MX, have special problems with Diablo II which make them much worse than otherwise-comparable ATI cards. Try running the game in full-screen mode but with the graphics in Software Mode and you should have quite decent performance, pretty much identical to the performance you have in Window Mode.
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