I just loaded the D3 client on my wife's laptop and ran through Tristram and the Cathedral to see how well the game would fare and I'm happy to report that the game actually ran very well. My setting were:
Resolution: 1600x900 16:9 WS
Textures: High
Shadows: Medium
Physics: High
Keep in mind this was not the actual beta and performance in the actual beta (and retail version) will most likely be slightly lower, but I'd say you are probably looking at decent medium settings. The Intel Graphics 3000 is comparable to the Nvidia 310M and the Radeon Mobility HD5450 both of which show "low" for performance on the Graphics Card List for D3. Anyway I was happy to see it run as well as it did since my wife uses her laptop far more than her desktop and we can for sure play the game together (Well technically she could use her desktop machine but this will work great.)
Tonight, I will run FRAPS and see what kind of framerates I'm getting on the laptop. It seemed totally playable to me, but actual numbers will help give others an idea of what to expect.
Resolution: 1600x900 16:9 WS
Textures: High
Shadows: Medium
Physics: High
Her laptop specs are:
CPU: Intel i5
RAM: 8GB DDR3 667
Harddrive: 500GB 7200RPM
Video: Intel HD Graphics 3000
Keep in mind this was not the actual beta and performance in the actual beta (and retail version) will most likely be slightly lower, but I'd say you are probably looking at decent medium settings. The Intel Graphics 3000 is comparable to the Nvidia 310M and the Radeon Mobility HD5450 both of which show "low" for performance on the Graphics Card List for D3. Anyway I was happy to see it run as well as it did since my wife uses her laptop far more than her desktop and we can for sure play the game together
Tonight, I will run FRAPS and see what kind of framerates I'm getting on the laptop. It seemed totally playable to me, but actual numbers will help give others an idea of what to expect.
HOWEVER, Take this info with a grain of salt. It wasn't the actual Beta I was using. I'm trying to compile some info from Beta users here: http://www.diablofans.com/topic/29870-specs-and-framerates-beta-players-only-please/ so feel free to contribute info to that thread to help the other members here.
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