ok heres the biggest question i have of all, and its really important that someone tell me your exact thoughts on what i should go with
alienware m17x? or a battalion 101 p170hm 17.3 inch from ibuypower.com? i wanna get a new laptop just for gaming so let me know
OS Name Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Home Premium
Version 6.0.6001 Service Pack 1 Build 6001
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name BENNETT
System Manufacturer Sony Corporation
System Model VGN-FW480J
System Type x64-based PC
Processor Intel® Core™2 Duo CPU P7350 @ 2.00GHz, 2000 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. R3100Y0, 4/22/2009
SMBIOS Version 2.4
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume2
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.0.6001.18000"
User Name BENNETT\chwee
Time Zone Pacific Standard Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 6.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 1.97 GB
Available Physical Memory 3.50 GB
Total Virtual Memory 12.1 GB
Available Virtual Memory 9.32 GB
Page File Space 6.26 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys
plus this is my gfx card ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4650- on a side note what would u prefer for a gfx card
amd radeon hd 6990m 2gb gddr5 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580m?
Im glad my machine was updated so i can play this game on high setting as soon as i receive a beta key or the game is released whichever comes first haha Been waiting since Sept for a chance at this game so i'm sure when i do get my chance im gonna really enjoy this game in full video settings SO CANT WAIT!
Recommended specs are looking good. As im building a new PC (i5 2500k) system this week! I really look forward to playing the game (whenever that drops). I was lucky enough to play the Diablo II beta before that was released with the Barbarian character running around the wilderness not knowing what to do.
Looking forward to running the game on max graphics
i spent £800 upgrading my pc for the large dissapointment that is BF3.
on the plus side of this my pc will more than be happy with running d3 at full.
Did you play multiplayer or just the single player campaign? Cause I bought BF3 last weekend and can't skip one day without playing for at least an hour...in between all my studies. Why don't you like it?
And I upgraded my pc for the most part for D3, but being able to play BF3 is just a treat!
i spent £800 upgrading my pc for the large dissapointment that is BF3.
on the plus side of this my pc will more than be happy with running d3 at full.
Did you play multiplayer or just the single player campaign? Cause I bought BF3 last weekend and can't skip one day without playing for at least an hour...in between all my studies. Why don't you like it?
And I upgraded my pc for the most part for D3, but being able to play BF3 is just a treat!
100% for the multiplayer. i played it since release and got to cornel rank 9. It has been the worst game in terms of errors/bugs and terrible communitcation back to community that ive ever seen upon release.
they use multiple other sites to convey the next updates/ideas/thoughts of the game and what they plan on doing, battlelog (the offical forum way) not being one of them? its madness.
the other problem being the updates, where they have catered for consoles (also admitting its was more a pc port game from consoles) the updates take ALOT longer to be released as they havent kept the pc and console updates seperate.
i could go on for a while with the problems dice/ea have done, but all my hopes on my pcs gaming future holds on with D3.
When was the last time you played? Cause, as stated, I only started playing last weekend which is almost 4 months after release, so they got ample of time to fix bugs etc. Since I started playing I haven't noticed any bugs...I did download a 4GB update when I first installed the game, so maybe all/most of the bugs was fixed up to that update.
i like the fact that with it being a new game i can still run it rather well. the problem i run into with most games is that i only have a laptop that is over a year old. and even then it wasnt speced for gaming at all.
Not in the beta, so I played through Titan Quest pretending that it was Diablo. I came to realize though, Titan Quest is a pretty nice looking game on high settings. It made me wonder if Diablo would look any better on my aging machine. ie. I could set everything to high on Titan Quest, but doubt very much I can do the same in D3. Titan Quest was fine, except for two sections of the Immortal Throne which really dropped in fps.
Does anybody in the beta have similar specs? If so, how does it run?
I figure the bottleneck will be my cpu. I use a fairly low resolution (1440x900), so maybe that will be my saving grace.
CPU Type:
Intel® Core™2 CPU 4300 @ 1.80GHz
CPU Speed:
1.82 GHz
System Memory:
3.5 GB
Video Card Model:
NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT
seems like fair enough system requirement, though i am saving up money for a beast gaming pc when diablo releases. I want to play it at max settings!
Man you don't need anything near to a beast to max this. Even if it had stereoscopic 3D.
I tested it (the beta is ridiculously short to be honest). And after creating my 5th char I was already sick of the PS2-quality models for MAIN characters.
The atmosphere of the game etc are nice of course, but when I look carefully at some details or when I use the zoom view it makes me sick =\
Sorry for the Diablo fans, but the game indeed looks dated and it wasn't even released.
I hope they release some kind of extra content to update the low-poly-with-low-resolution-textures-models soon, for people who really like to "MAX" things out.
Not in the beta, so I played through Titan Quest pretending that it was Diablo. I came to realize though, Titan Quest is a pretty nice looking game on high settings. It made me wonder if Diablo would look any better on my aging machine. ie. I could set everything to high on Titan Quest, but doubt very much I can do the same in D3. Titan Quest was fine, except for two sections of the Immortal Throne which really dropped in fps.
Does anybody in the beta have similar specs? If so, how does it run?
I figure the bottleneck will be my cpu. I use a fairly low resolution (1440x900), so maybe that will be my saving grace.
CPU Type:
Intel® Core™2 CPU 4300 @ 1.80GHz
CPU Speed:
1.82 GHz
System Memory:
3.5 GB
Video Card Model:
NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT
Gamespot actually tried it out with something approaching my specs.
Hopping onto our test beds, we thought we'd limbo down a bit and pair up an Intel Core i3 with a practically ancient GeForce 9800 GT. Frame rates ended up pegged at 60, the maximum the monitor allowed with V-sync enabled, and we were still running with everything cranked at 1920. Clearly, we were still overestimating the game's demands.
Off we went to our dusty 1.8GHz Core 2 Duo paired with a GeForce 8800 GT. This has to be the bottom, right? Wrong. We maxed out everything and still ended up with a machine that could output 60 frames per second under normal conditions and in average battles.
I am wondering if I will be able to run d3 on the lowest settings. The only reason I worry is because I have a laptop with ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 Series. When I play beta my fps seems a little slow, but I am hoping that with the whole game I will be able to go lowest with all settings because I don't care much about graphics.
So I need a little advice. I got i7 920 2.67 Ghz CPU and HD4890 GPU and I still have some lag in beta when there are big battles. I am just wondering which piece of hardware is lagging here? If I know I can overclock it.
Overclocks generally don't give much more than 10% performance gains, what means nothing for gaming.
I think the problem may be physics running on your CPU. Although I'm not sure how they implemented physics in game, IF it uses only Physx to run it on GPU, the game is processing the physics on your CPU, what may overwhelm it in some cases.
To be sure, you can keep an eye on your CPU usage when these big battle are happening to see if it's near 100%. When doing it, don't forget that your CPU is a 4 core, but it has 8 total virtual cores. So, if 4 cores are near 100%, the CPU is giving all it can, even if the Task Manager indicates only 50% usage.
Another test you can do is increase/decrease only the resolution in the game options. If the game slows down much more when increasing it, the bottleneck is your GPU, because changing resolution mantains the CPU load almost intact.
If you find out the problem is your CPU, you may try to overclock it to 3.2GHz, maybe 3.5, but I don't think the standard Intel cooler will be able to maintain a nice temperature unless your ambient temperature is less than 20º C.
Thanks for advice Primo. Gonna try to decrease resolution and check if lag remains. Also, how do I check CPU usage while playing? Because if I alt-tab CPU usage instantly decreases and I don't have double monitor.
You have 3 options to check the CPU usage:
1) Check the Task Manager's graphs for each core and estimate what was the CPU usage just before you alt-tabbed;
I think am good with my processor core2 quad q9300@2.50
4 gig ram.
My video card is only a nvidea gt 440. I imagine this is going to cause some problems?
do you think with an ati 6850 I would be able to run on high setting at full resolution?
thx.
I posted this back in November. Have 8 gigs of ram now, rest of system is still the same. Just wondering if the 6850 is the best bet for getting me to run at highest settings. I'm looking for the least expensive way to run at highest quality.
I think am good with my processor core2 quad q9300@2.50
4 gig ram.
My video card is only a nvidea gt 440. I imagine this is going to cause some problems?
do you think with an ati 6850 I would be able to run on high setting at full resolution?
thx.
I posted this back in November. Have 8 gigs of ram now, rest of system is still the same. Just wondering if the 6850 is the best bet for getting me to run at highest settings. I'm looking for the least expensive way to run at highest quality.
Thanks.
If I were you I'd wait and see. Based on what we know, the graphics card is a bit low. GeForce 550 Ti seems to be a good card for a low cost upgrade, but maybe wait till the game is out and see what kind of performance other people are getting? You should at least be able to play the game day one, and if not, video cards are pretty quick and easy to swap out.
Hellou guys. This weekend i tested the open beta of Diablo 3 and i had some problems considering the FPS in the game. All the details of the game were HIGH at a rezolution of 1920*1080. FPS problems (10~15) ,for 2-3 seconds, occured when big battles were played and few FPS spikes when running on the map.
My specifications are the following:
-Intel Core i5-2400 @3.10 GHZ
-8 GB DDR3 RAM at a 1333 frequency
-Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 (driver up to date and ambient occlusion off)
-Gigabyte P61-USB3-B3
I know that the beta is not fully optimized but some friends did not have problems on HIGH details like mine and they have older systems. Please reply if you had this. Thanks.
Do not worry, you're system is MORE than capable of maxing out diablo 3. It must be a beta problem, if it occurs in the final release, I'm sure blizzard will be getting threats lol.
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alienware m17x? or a battalion 101 p170hm 17.3 inch from ibuypower.com? i wanna get a new laptop just for gaming so let me know
OS Name Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Home Premium
Version 6.0.6001 Service Pack 1 Build 6001
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name BENNETT
System Manufacturer Sony Corporation
System Model VGN-FW480J
System Type x64-based PC
Processor Intel® Core™2 Duo CPU P7350 @ 2.00GHz, 2000 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. R3100Y0, 4/22/2009
SMBIOS Version 2.4
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume2
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.0.6001.18000"
User Name BENNETT\chwee
Time Zone Pacific Standard Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 6.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 1.97 GB
Available Physical Memory 3.50 GB
Total Virtual Memory 12.1 GB
Available Virtual Memory 9.32 GB
Page File Space 6.26 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys
plus this is my gfx card ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4650- on a side note what would u prefer for a gfx card
amd radeon hd 6990m 2gb gddr5 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580m?
so you see why i need a new one
Looking forward to running the game on max graphics
Did you play multiplayer or just the single player campaign? Cause I bought BF3 last weekend and can't skip one day without playing for at least an hour...in between all my studies. Why don't you like it?
And I upgraded my pc for the most part for D3, but being able to play BF3 is just a treat!
When was the last time you played? Cause, as stated, I only started playing last weekend which is almost 4 months after release, so they got ample of time to fix bugs etc. Since I started playing I haven't noticed any bugs...I did download a 4GB update when I first installed the game, so maybe all/most of the bugs was fixed up to that update.
Does anybody in the beta have similar specs? If so, how does it run?
I figure the bottleneck will be my cpu. I use a fairly low resolution (1440x900), so maybe that will be my saving grace.
CPU Type:
Intel® Core™2 CPU 4300 @ 1.80GHz
CPU Speed:
1.82 GHz
System Memory:
3.5 GB
Video Card Model:
NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT
This is my config:
I tested it (the beta is ridiculously short to be honest). And after creating my 5th char I was already sick of the PS2-quality models for MAIN characters.
The atmosphere of the game etc are nice of course, but when I look carefully at some details or when I use the zoom view it makes me sick =\
Sorry for the Diablo fans, but the game indeed looks dated and it wasn't even released.
I hope they release some kind of extra content to update the low-poly-with-low-resolution-textures-models soon, for people who really like to "MAX" things out.
Gamespot actually tried it out with something approaching my specs.
http://www.gamespot.com/features/diablo-iii-beta-how-low-can-it-go-6337821/
Hopping onto our test beds, we thought we'd limbo down a bit and pair up an Intel Core i3 with a practically ancient GeForce 9800 GT. Frame rates ended up pegged at 60, the maximum the monitor allowed with V-sync enabled, and we were still running with everything cranked at 1920. Clearly, we were still overestimating the game's demands.
Off we went to our dusty 1.8GHz Core 2 Duo paired with a GeForce 8800 GT. This has to be the bottom, right? Wrong. We maxed out everything and still ended up with a machine that could output 60 frames per second under normal conditions and in average battles.
I think the problem may be physics running on your CPU. Although I'm not sure how they implemented physics in game, IF it uses only Physx to run it on GPU, the game is processing the physics on your CPU, what may overwhelm it in some cases.
To be sure, you can keep an eye on your CPU usage when these big battle are happening to see if it's near 100%. When doing it, don't forget that your CPU is a 4 core, but it has 8 total virtual cores. So, if 4 cores are near 100%, the CPU is giving all it can, even if the Task Manager indicates only 50% usage.
Another test you can do is increase/decrease only the resolution in the game options. If the game slows down much more when increasing it, the bottleneck is your GPU, because changing resolution mantains the CPU load almost intact.
If you find out the problem is your CPU, you may try to overclock it to 3.2GHz, maybe 3.5, but I don't think the standard Intel cooler will be able to maintain a nice temperature unless your ambient temperature is less than 20º C.
You have 3 options to check the CPU usage:
1) Check the Task Manager's graphs for each core and estimate what was the CPU usage just before you alt-tabbed;
2) Play in windowed mode ( =P );
3) Use HWiNFO with Riva Tuner OSD to display the CPU usage in real time while in fullscreen mode. This link explains it in more details http://forum.techinferno.com/hwinfo32-64-discussion/616-support-rtss-displaying-hwinfo32-64-sensor-values-games.html.
1680x1050 all max, but shadows at medium. Try to put shadows at medium and see how it runs..
I posted this back in November. Have 8 gigs of ram now, rest of system is still the same. Just wondering if the 6850 is the best bet for getting me to run at highest settings. I'm looking for the least expensive way to run at highest quality.
Thanks.
If I were you I'd wait and see. Based on what we know, the graphics card is a bit low. GeForce 550 Ti seems to be a good card for a low cost upgrade, but maybe wait till the game is out and see what kind of performance other people are getting? You should at least be able to play the game day one, and if not, video cards are pretty quick and easy to swap out.
Do not worry, you're system is MORE than capable of maxing out diablo 3. It must be a beta problem, if it occurs in the final release, I'm sure blizzard will be getting threats lol.