Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-26005008-20160407215658/@comment-1496755-20160509103129

You will probably go back in time tell yourself "Don't read the Wheel of Time series, you will regret it until the end of your life!!!"

Luckily, so far only one thing gives me multiple-core issues, though they occur pretty rarely and thus I generally avoid taking action (I'm living on the edge!). Compatibility options and killing explorer.exe are the solution for 95% of all cases. In some other cases I can use a hacked ddraw.dll or some Glide wrapper to fix things.

Speaking of Glide, it still is the best option for Diablo II, even though Blizzard updated the game to run better on modern OS & video cards. They only use the game's Direct3D renderer, which works fine but has one major drawback - textures are 16-bit (and have tiny spots, I'm sure you've seen this effect) with blurred graphics in many places, whereas a third-party Glide wrapper gives you nice 32-bit textures and eliminates blurriness.

And, of course, I have one more powerful ally in my struggle with old titles - my monitor with its built-in aspect correction option, which emulates 4:3 ratio. And it does it pretty well :)