spoiler.... its been known for a while that the butcher would make an appearance. and i said in the disc that the butcher model would be shown... whats the spoiler here... if you dont want to see his model, dont play the video. how can box art be a damn spoiler....
For those wondering how it runs on an old machine, here are my specs:
Core 2 Duo @ 1.8GHz
4GB DDR2 memory
Nvidia 9800 GT
Vista 32-bit
I ran at 1440x900, textures high, physics high, shadows medium, anti-aliasing and vsync disabled. There were little bits of slow down when things got crazy, but for the most part it was solid. If I have performance problems with the full game I think I can get around them by turning off shadows, or maybe setting shadows to low and physics to low. Both (I think) stress the cpu, which is my weak link.
I'd find it odd to fight angels (Goes against mostly all my common sense)
And that's why Diablo is amazing. Angels don't represent good in this story. It's Heaven vs Hell, not right vs wrong.
On topic though, there will be people to fight. If you've read any of the spoilers out there, you would have more of an idea of who they could be, but just the Evils and Angels aren't really the only options, just think about it. Things don't die in the world of Diablo
Here's my computer:
Pentium E2180 running at 2800 Mhz
4 GB RAM
Geforce 9600GT 512 MB
What I'm aiming for is 1680x1050 resolution with minimum details, would it work, or do I need to upgrade?
Unless somebody in beta has similar specs, I think you are going to have to wait and see. Your numbers are almost identical to mine, and from what I can tell, our video cards are good for about medium settings, CPU the same if we look at the minimum Intel score, but below the minimum AMD score.
My hope is that we should be able to run at medium, maybe with a couple things set to low. Shadows usually tax my machine in other games.
Yours:
CPU Score: 1122
GPU Score: 931
Mine: (Core 2 Duo E4300 @ 1.8GHz, GeForce 9800 GT)
CPU Score: 1050
GPU Score: 916
I saw a video that showed the game stuttering after patch 15, and what happened there is the player character could move about freely while the enemies were stuck in place. From that, can we assume enemy movement data is streamed from the server?
If so, the hit box size may be increased to account for differences between where the server thinks an enemy is located and where the enemy is displayed on the player screen. In other words, if the hit box was as small as possible - the exact outline of the monster - you might have a situation where you'd be clicking on it but missing because the server has the monster two feet away.
I'm not claiming the above is true, but it's the only explanation I can think of for a hit box of that size.
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The spoiler is in the thread title.
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Core 2 Duo @ 1.8GHz
4GB DDR2 memory
Nvidia 9800 GT
Vista 32-bit
I ran at 1440x900, textures high, physics high, shadows medium, anti-aliasing and vsync disabled. There were little bits of slow down when things got crazy, but for the most part it was solid. If I have performance problems with the full game I think I can get around them by turning off shadows, or maybe setting shadows to low and physics to low. Both (I think) stress the cpu, which is my weak link.
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Are you saying what I think you're saying?
We get to fight ...
The Butcher?!?
Squee!!!
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Unless somebody in beta has similar specs, I think you are going to have to wait and see. Your numbers are almost identical to mine, and from what I can tell, our video cards are good for about medium settings, CPU the same if we look at the minimum Intel score, but below the minimum AMD score.
My hope is that we should be able to run at medium, maybe with a couple things set to low. Shadows usually tax my machine in other games.
Yours:
CPU Score: 1122
GPU Score: 931
Mine: (Core 2 Duo E4300 @ 1.8GHz, GeForce 9800 GT)
CPU Score: 1050
GPU Score: 916
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If so, the hit box size may be increased to account for differences between where the server thinks an enemy is located and where the enemy is displayed on the player screen. In other words, if the hit box was as small as possible - the exact outline of the monster - you might have a situation where you'd be clicking on it but missing because the server has the monster two feet away.
I'm not claiming the above is true, but it's the only explanation I can think of for a hit box of that size.
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Nephalem Valor is one of the major new systems in Diablo III and it kicks in at level 60.