help me improve d2 performance

[Choai]

hello everyone i am a diablo 2 fan but this brings me some trouble because my system doesnt let me play with smooth stable game picture.
i recently upgraded my pc a bit from p 1.5 to intel celeron 2.30Ghz Socket 478 mPGA
Core voltage 1.568 v. sis-651 MOtherboard .transfer rate 4X AGP version 2.0. geforce 4 ti 4200.
DDR 512 MBytes. creative audigy 2. but!!!!!!!!! diablo fps is still low when it gets crowded
why is that? wt can i do to improve the situation, and how i do overclocking safly if its needed. watining impaitiently 4 ur help

 

[Ongaku]

Is the game on Direct3D or DirectDraw? Game runs alot better if you use DirectDraw. It doesn't look that ugly either heh

 

[Choai]

its on direct 3d wt i need? more ram more cpu power new graphic card a shoftware of som kind overclocking. i dont uindarstand why 10 year is so demamnding

 

[MadClown]

ur pc must fail hard if it cant play a 2d game, try re-installing?

 

[xu^]

id look at upgrading ram and that celeron doesnt help either,the older cellys were rather poor to say the least.

really u need a better PC in general as u may be playing a 10 yr old game but your doing so on a 5+ year old PC.
As a minimum to run even older games well ud need something like a P4/AMD 64 ,1gb ram and a more recent gfx card.

 

[ShadowFold]

D2 ran fine on a ATi rage/old Celeron and TNT2/P4 1.6ghz for me I dont see why he cant run it.

 

[Ongaku]

It should run fine really, I had it running on my old laptop with a Celeron 2.4GHz...

Like I said turn it to DirectDraw and see how it runs. Run the video test that's in the Diablo II folder.