Shadows on Medium look more realistic to me. To have the shadow effect on High you'd need a really bright and sharp light source. That is not always the case, especially with all the dim places and low lighting throughout the game
Anyway! I got a GeForce 9600 GT and I'm more than confident that it'll do the job.
I never play games on Ultra anyway so...
If I have shadows on high it starts to really bog down my system, I don't know why, with them on medium everything runs fine(everything else on high) - I get 60+ fps and it hovers around 35-60 depending on the situation, more players / mobs / spell effects.
Shadows on Medium look more realistic to me. To have the shadow effect on High you'd need a really bright and sharp light source. That is not always the case, especially with all the dim places and low lighting throughout the game
Anyway! I got a GeForce 9600 GT and I'm more than confident that it'll do the job.
I never play games on Ultra anyway so...
lol, i was about to say the exact same thing.
I have a Nvidia240m here, so I am very happy with this report.
Shadows on Medium look more realistic to me. To have the shadow effect on High you'd need a really bright and sharp light source. That is not always the case, especially with all the dim places and low lighting throughout the game
Anyway! I got a GeForce 9600 GT and I'm more than confident that it'll do the job.
I never play games on Ultra anyway so...
If I have shadows on high it starts to really bog down my system, I don't know why, with them on medium everything runs fine(everything else on high) - I get 60+ fps and it hovers around 35-60 depending on the situation, more players / mobs / spell effects.
What video card do you have?
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One is never hurt by being given additional choices, only by taking them away. A QUADRILLION MAGIC FIND is worthless if you can't kill shit!
Shadows on Medium look more realistic to me. To have the shadow effect on High you'd need a really bright and sharp light source. That is not always the case, especially with all the dim places and low lighting throughout the game
I kinda agree with you. The following is probably just me being a perfectionist (or just full of shit). I dunno if Blizz is implementing the "realism effect" where, as you mentioned, the light source isn't constant, meaning you'll get very blurry shadows the farther you are away from the light source and vice versa.
But Shadow settings on Medium would be considered the "average" lighting effect in real life. So yes, in average the shadows would look like the Medium setting, whereas High is very near and Low very far. I'll probably play with Medium Shadow settings even if I can max the game.
Shadows on Medium look more realistic to me. To have the shadow effect on High you'd need a really bright and sharp light source. That is not always the case, especially with all the dim places and low lighting throughout the game
Anyway! I got a GeForce 9600 GT and I'm more than confident that it'll do the job.
I never play games on Ultra anyway so...
If I have shadows on high it starts to really bog down my system, I don't know why, with them on medium everything runs fine(everything else on high) - I get 60+ fps and it hovers around 35-60 depending on the situation, more players / mobs / spell effects.
This was the case for me as well, in Wow for one. I think the shadow quality alone made my fps drop from 60 to 30, so I thought to myself do I really need to see my shadow all the time ? It was fine but just not on high or whatever. Shadows is a heavy graphic.
Oh and as for video cards mine is ehm.. GeForce GTX 460 and I am very pleased.
This is good news. My video card is kind of low end (GT 240). I was hoping I could play on Medium, and it looks like I will. The article says the game has Low, Medium, and High Quality settings. Does this mean there is no Ultra yet in beta? It seems to me Blizzard could add a higher setting for release to appease gamers with high end rigs. It won't be Battlefield 3 quality, but textures and shadows could be a lot better in Diablo 3.
I was looking for something like this when I was pricing upgrades for myself. Then my brother got lucky with some old hardware from his office and my upgrade didn't need to cost as much after all. Before, my computer didn't even fit the minimum specs released for beta, now it should laugh at it in max settings at 1920x1080 (if only my monitor could run the res that high lol).
I've waited 10 years for this game and Diablo 2 is still up there as one of my most played games. In my opinion, I feel that it's worth being able to see Diablo 3 in all it's glory at maximum detail as soon as I get my hands on it.
For those that are interested, I'm now running a Quad core 2.6 with a GTX 560. Should do D3 max settings fine and cope with me running a dual monitor setup with no trouble. Now I just need beta or release to test it out
I haven't given a lot of thought to how I will run Diablo. But now that you mention it I am thinking the same thing. I have a Quad core as well, 2.4 with a GTX 460 and 3Gigs worth of RAM. Hopefully that should run on max smoothly, I'd be surprised if not.
This is good news. My video card is kind of low end (GT 240). I was hoping I could play on Medium, and it looks like I will. The article says the game has Low, Medium, and High Quality settings. Does this mean there is no Ultra yet in beta? It seems to me Blizzard could add a higher setting for release to appease gamers with high end rigs. It won't be Battlefield 3 quality, but textures and shadows could be a lot better in Diablo 3.
I believe it was Force whom mentioned there will be a Ultra setting, just not in beta. Which is nice.
Shadows on Medium look more realistic to me. To have the shadow effect on High you'd need a really bright and sharp light source. That is not always the case, especially with all the dim places and low lighting throughout the game
Anyway! I got a GeForce 9600 GT and I'm more than confident that it'll do the job.
I never play games on Ultra anyway so...
lol, i was about to say the exact same thing.
I have a Nvidia240m here, so I am very happy with this report.
Shadows on Medium look more realistic to me. To have the shadow effect on High you'd need a really bright and sharp light source. That is not always the case, especially with all the dim places and low lighting throughout the game
Anyway! I got a GeForce 9600 GT and I'm more than confident that it'll do the job.
I never play games on Ultra anyway so...
If I have shadows on high it starts to really bog down my system, I don't know why, with them on medium everything runs fine(everything else on high) - I get 60+ fps and it hovers around 35-60 depending on the situation, more players / mobs / spell effects.
What video card do you have?
I have an ATI Radeon 4800 HD
Also if your in the beta to show your fps ingame, just type -showfps
It will show top left corner.
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If I have shadows on high it starts to really bog down my system, I don't know why, with them on medium everything runs fine(everything else on high) - I get 60+ fps and it hovers around 35-60 depending on the situation, more players / mobs / spell effects.
lol, i was about to say the exact same thing.
I have a Nvidia240m here, so I am very happy with this report.
What video card do you have?
A QUADRILLION MAGIC FIND is worthless if you can't kill shit!
But Shadow settings on Medium would be considered the "average" lighting effect in real life. So yes, in average the shadows would look like the Medium setting, whereas High is very near and Low very far. I'll probably play with Medium Shadow settings even if I can max the game.
This was the case for me as well, in Wow for one. I think the shadow quality alone made my fps drop from 60 to 30, so I thought to myself do I really need to see my shadow all the time ? It was fine but just not on high or whatever. Shadows is a heavy graphic.
Oh and as for video cards mine is ehm.. GeForce GTX 460 and I am very pleased.
I haven't given a lot of thought to how I will run Diablo. But now that you mention it I am thinking the same thing. I have a Quad core as well, 2.4 with a GTX 460 and 3Gigs worth of RAM. Hopefully that should run on max smoothly, I'd be surprised if not.
I believe it was Force whom mentioned there will be a Ultra setting, just not in beta. Which is nice.
I have an ATI Radeon 4800 HD
Also if your in the beta to show your fps ingame, just type -showfps
It will show top left corner.