Hi all. I was hoping i could get some info on the upcoming Diablo III physics system. Now so far ive heard that it would use the Havok physics engine. Recently though i heard from n friend of mine(Nvidia fanboy) that the game woud use Nvidia PysX technology on the GPU and would also run like crap on ATi hardware. Now what the heck, if this would be true then the guys using ATi hardware would be screwed and this would impact the game sales negatively. I currently own a Radeon 4850 and was wondering how the game would work on it and if i would experience the full game physics. Ive always had an ATi card and do not intend on switching over to NV unless i have no other choice. I just want to be ready when the game comes out to experience the game to its fullest. I dont want to waist my money on software that doesnt work well with my current hardware. As far as im concerned if the game does not work well on both NV and ATi it wouldnt get my sale. I think they should really take this into account.
Hi all. I was hoping i could get some info on the upcoming Diablo III physics system. Now so far ive heard that it would use the Havok physics engine. Recently though i heard from n friend of mine(Nvidia fanboy) that the game woud use Nvidia PysX technology on the GPU and would also run like crap on ATi hardware. Now what the heck, if this would be true then the guys using ATi hardware would be screwed and this would impact the game sales negatively. I currently own a Radeon 4850 and was wondering how the game would work on it and if i would experience the full game physics. Ive always had an ATi card and do not intend on switching over to NV unless i have no other choice. I just want to be ready when the game comes out to experience the game to its fullest. I dont want to waist my money on software that doesnt work well with my current hardware. As far as im concerned if the game does not work well on both NV and ATi it wouldnt get my sale. I think they should really take this into account.
ur graphics card will definitely run any future blizzard game. it may struggle with diablo 4 but not d3. (**edit- actually on second thought..... nvm as i just remembered that blizz releases games every 10+ years...)
I currently own a Radeon 4850 and was wondering how the game would work on it and if i would experience the full game physics. Ive always had an ATi card and do not intend on switching over to NV unless i have no other choice. I just want to be ready when the game comes out to experience the game to its fullest. I dont want to waist my money on software that doesnt work well with my current hardware.
Maybe you should then wait until the system requirements have been released so you would know what it does require and not bother yourself now when it's like 1 year before the game is released. Also closer to the game release (after beta etc) we have loads of more info about how the game runs on different systems.
Anyways don't worry about your Radeon 4850 it will work fine.
IIRC nVidia PhysX is only supported on their newest cards and there are huge amount of people with 8800 series cards.. + the games physics aren't probably gonna be anything so huge that slightly above average system couldn't handle.
Hi all. I was hoping i could get some info on the upcoming Diablo III physics system. Now so far ive heard that it would use the Havok physics engine. Recently though i heard from n friend of mine(Nvidia fanboy) that the game woud use Nvidia PysX technology on the GPU and would also run like crap on ATi hardware. Now what the heck, if this would be true then the guys using ATi hardware would be screwed and this would impact the game sales negatively. I currently own a Radeon 4850 and was wondering how the game would work on it and if i would experience the full game physics. Ive always had an ATi card and do not intend on switching over to NV unless i have no other choice. I just want to be ready when the game comes out to experience the game to its fullest. I dont want to waist my money on software that doesnt work well with my current hardware. As far as im concerned if the game does not work well on both NV and ATi it wouldnt get my sale. I think they should really take this into account.
Blizz wont do that....its havoc anyways....if they did that they would be losing possible sales to peeps with ATI cards
My opinion on the matter is that they will be offering more support for people with older stuff just simply because they don't expect people playing games like diablo to be worried about massive fps. So I figure they'll give more support to the mid-range so that they can play comfortable, usually I've seen when a company does that with a game they actually leave the higher end people out to dry without giving enough features and graphics support they want since they got the high end system....which is where I'm at.
A blizzard--Nvidia partnership is very unlikely to happen. I think it's ATi that as the advantage here...maybe a catalysis pilot made especially for Diablo 3 instead of the PhysX engine ?
If you want to experience the game to it's fullest, I suggest getting yourself a good dual core processor, some good ram and a radeon 4870 which is the model above yours or another 4850 in crossfire.
Don't forget to find yourself a crossfire motherboard of course. Buy all that stuff just before Diablo 3 comes out and I'm 100% sure that you're gonna play the game at ultra high! By then it should cost like 450$ max with very good components by today's standards. At Blizzcon, I'm pretty sure all the computers were equipped with exactly that or even a little less.
The computer architecture becomes every half year 2 times faster and 2 times cheaper.
I believe moores law was every 18 months
I really hope they try to satisfy people accross the board, I play all my games at 1980x1080 on high settings, so I hope they take that into account.
Also I hope they make a setting to just have corpse stay, instead of just a body count or time limit. By the time it comes out It probly won't be too much of an issue with newer systems.
have you noticed
on some of the videos when the locusts would devour the enemy and leave just the bones
the bones would slide down the grass like 50 feet lol
idk if anyone noticed this
D: if your computer will run world of warcraft graphics, it will run d3 with ease probably. It looks similar to WoW, yet totally different. I like the graphics I've seen. PK WILL BE FKING AWESOME.
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Maybe you should then wait until the system requirements have been released so you would know what it does require and not bother yourself now when it's like 1 year before the game is released. Also closer to the game release (after beta etc) we have loads of more info about how the game runs on different systems.
Anyways don't worry about your Radeon 4850 it will work fine.
IIRC nVidia PhysX is only supported on their newest cards and there are huge amount of people with 8800 series cards.. + the games physics aren't probably gonna be anything so huge that slightly above average system couldn't handle.
physx is suportd by any video card starting from 8800
Plus, the huge amount of 8800 gt around the world use the g92 chip (instead of the g80), which is the same used on the 9800...
so physx or not, they could run diablo 3 witt its transistors tied in their back
indeed, diablo 3 has the graphics of a 6 years old game called unreal tournament 2003/4
and the dead bodies would slide down any surface like if it was on grease
they added friction in ut3, and it looks great, but diablo 3 engine seems stuck in the past
huh, that's strange. I never knew that ATI/AMD was developing a physic engine to compete with Nvidia :P.
Edit: i also noticed that blizz changed their WOW ads... insted of ten mill it's not eleven mil 0_0. We can't stop the machine anymore, WOW is too powerful!
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ur graphics card will definitely run any future blizzard game. it may struggle with diablo 4 but not d3. (**edit- actually on second thought..... nvm as i just remembered that blizz releases games every 10+ years...)
Maybe you should then wait until the system requirements have been released so you would know what it does require and not bother yourself now when it's like 1 year before the game is released. Also closer to the game release (after beta etc) we have loads of more info about how the game runs on different systems.
Anyways don't worry about your Radeon 4850 it will work fine.
IIRC nVidia PhysX is only supported on their newest cards and there are huge amount of people with 8800 series cards.. + the games physics aren't probably gonna be anything so huge that slightly above average system couldn't handle.
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Blizz wont do that....its havoc anyways....if they did that they would be losing possible sales to peeps with ATI cards
If you want to experience the game to it's fullest, I suggest getting yourself a good dual core processor, some good ram and a radeon 4870 which is the model above yours or another 4850 in crossfire.
Don't forget to find yourself a crossfire motherboard of course. Buy all that stuff just before Diablo 3 comes out and I'm 100% sure that you're gonna play the game at ultra high! By then it should cost like 450$ max with very good components by today's standards. At Blizzcon, I'm pretty sure all the computers were equipped with exactly that or even a little less.
I believe moores law was every 18 months
I really hope they try to satisfy people accross the board, I play all my games at 1980x1080 on high settings, so I hope they take that into account.
Also I hope they make a setting to just have corpse stay, instead of just a body count or time limit. By the time it comes out It probly won't be too much of an issue with newer systems.
on some of the videos when the locusts would devour the enemy and leave just the bones
the bones would slide down the grass like 50 feet lol
idk if anyone noticed this
but doesn't that look stupid?
the bones slide for like 5 minutes
looks gay
lol
Physics in games using any engine r kinda quirky and are far from perfect looking....
Also arent physics generally handled by the CPU and not the vid card?
I'm pretty sure they are.
Plus, the huge amount of 8800 gt around the world use the g92 chip (instead of the g80), which is the same used on the 9800...
so physx or not, they could run diablo 3 witt its transistors tied in their back
indeed, diablo 3 has the graphics of a 6 years old game called unreal tournament 2003/4
and the dead bodies would slide down any surface like if it was on grease
they added friction in ut3, and it looks great, but diablo 3 engine seems stuck in the past
i didnt know the graphics was that old
PhysicsX = nvidia
Havok = ATI
in fact Blizzard has a partnership with AMD/ATI if you guys didnt know
GFX cards from both companies will run the game fine, its just thats ATI is better optimized for Havok, and Nvidia for PhysX
ROFL fanboys are soo annoying
btw theres the link
Edit: i also noticed that blizz changed their WOW ads... insted of ten mill it's not eleven mil 0_0. We can't stop the machine anymore, WOW is too powerful!