On the Lightmapping note, I'm getting rather abysmal performance with it enabled as well (but no visual bugs).
1024x768 on an Athlon XP2000, 512MB DDR266 and a Radeon 9600Pro = ~20fps without any major action going on. Another thing about the lighting I noticed is that the weapon light is flickering ...

Okay, zapp and me just met up and did some experimenting again. In the first round, I hosted with only "Use Cameras" disabled, everything else camera-related enabled; zapp had all camera stuff enabled - and when he connected, his controls were normal. We were unable to replicate this later on.

We ...

Diedel wrote:go get zapp and try this: Go to the render options menu and uncheck "Use Cameras". Maybe that helps. If it does, please let me know.

He's not there right now, but I'll give him a poke when I run into him the next time.

I just ran into zapp on Kali, so we decided to try things out. Here's what we found:
IPX games on Kali have some of the controls reversed for the clients (namely, left/right sliding, forward/backward, and up/down turning - up/down sliding works normally; can't quite remember if left/right turning ...

So if you're willing to create high res textures for D2X-W32, I'd gladly add that.
There's no way in hell I'll be able to do them all by myself - but as I said, as a community effort, it's far from impossible. I wouldn't have much of a problem redoing textures either way ;)

It would be really ...

If somebody would take the work upon himself to create an alternate pig file, I could teach DLE-XP and D2X-W32 to use it. I wouldn't however touch the original pig file - rather create replacement textures for the original ones plus a set of additional new ones.
Which is pretty much exactly what I ...

Any hope on getting ogg or mp3 support for music (to dump eg. ogg rips of the D2 audio tracks into the d2x-win32 directory or a subdir and get those played), and/or a way of giving the game a high-res texture overhaul (like so many other sourceports of games have done)?

The latter would involve ...