QoL Tips & Tricks

[Zoxjib]

I found that Gimli's TinyMod is really great with this, especially for keeping the RAM and VRAM costs down.
From struggling to run ~7 clients with 64gb RAM and the main client barely getting 60fps, I'm now conveniently running 8 and have more than 40% RAM leftover and the main client runs at 200fps.
https://github.com/D2R-Gimli/TinyMod/

Switching between different game windows with a AHK script is much easier than alt-tabbing or clicking them. Here's an example where Mouse4/5 goes to my main, Ctrl+M4 goes to BO, Ctrl+M5 goes to Enchantress, F1-5 goes to the town loaders. The window names have to match:

SetTitleMatchMode, 2
#if (WinActive("ahk_class OsWindow"))

XButton1::
XButton2::
IfWinExist 1 - Main
	winactivate
return

+XButton1::
IfWinExist 2 - BO
	winactivate
return

+XButton2::
IfWinExist 3 - Chant
	winactivate
return

F1::
IfWinExist 4 - D2R4
	winactivate
return

F2::
IfWinExist 5 - D2R5
	winactivate
return

F3::
IfWinExist 6 - D2R6
	winactivate
return

F4::
IfWinExist 7 - D2R7
	winactivate
return

F5::
IfWinExist 8 - D2R8
	winactivate
return

Share your tips :)

[shupershuff]

That's a great tip! Thanks for sharing.

[sticks435]

I noticed in the main setup article under Notes (https://github.com/shupershuff/Diablo2RLoader?tab=readme-ov-file#notes) it says to use the in game setting to limit FPS. You should add a note saying that doing this will increase your load times. It's well documented that load time is tied to FPS now.

[Zoxjib]

Even though there is no support for the Steam client of the game, I'm still able to run my main client through Steam, and then launch my alt accounts through Battlenet normally

[shupershuff]

Yep, a while back I made it so if there's another instance of the game running that wasn't launched through this script then it still kills the handle.

[Zoxjib]

As a work-around to this script over-writing Settings.json in order to launch the alt accounts with lower graphics, I'm now first loading all my alts, then manually restoring the high-graphics Settings.json and only then launching my main account through Steam. 🤷

[Zoxjib]

Ah, no, that won't work. There is no option to disable modern graphics with ROTW, and Gimli's mod hasn't been updated.

I personally set my 7 alt accounts to use lower resolution in window mode, limit FPS to 60 ingame and to 20 when not-in-focus in NVIDIA's Settings and I'm able to easily run 8 clients with perfect performance. I have 64gb RAM and 16gb VRAM so YMMV.

[voidwardz]

Didn't know we could do that in Nvidia's settings, nice.

[shupershuff]

This video provides some good advice for limiting background application frame rate for NVIDIA and AMD GPU's:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uy471s1m-B0

[voidwardz]

Is there any way to add this functionality while not screwing up our load times? Screen loading times are directly tied to our FPS, apparently. For some reason even when I'm in focus it remains at a low frame rate after I've done it in Nvidia control panel for my other instances (all except Main) and my loading times are much worse than at 60fps.

[voidwardz]

Nevermind; after testing out the RTSS method, it works better than Nvidia's. For some reason, Nvidia's kept thinking my other instance was in the background even when focused. But RTSS is able to properly separate them. This means it gets max loading times when focused, then drops after, which is ideal! Thanks for this.