"Max" settings - Diablo 3

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Limp Gawd
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I'm curious if anyone has experience with "true max settings" and can thus make a sound GPU recommendation.

By "true," I mean that I'd like to keep high FPS in four-person multiplayer, with tons of on-screen action going on. I fear that many posts I find regarding this are short-sighted and simply quote FPS from Tristram. It's hard to even fully test this as we're yet to play inferno. Think Baal's minion chamber, but in D3...

That said, can anyone make an educated guess as to whether a card like a 7850 will truly play smoothly at "max settings"?

*assuming 1920x1200, i5 2500k and 8g ram.
 
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Core 2 Duo E8500 @ 3.5GHz, 8GB DDR2 800, and a single Radeon HD 6850. Max settings. Crushed it on the beta. Smooth during tons of on-screen combat. You shouldn't have any issues with a 7850. Any choppiness will be the result of network issues.
 
Red Machine D said:
Core 2 Duo E8500 @ 3.5GHz, 8GB DDR2 800, and a single Radeon HD 6850. Max settings. Crushed it on the beta. Smooth during tons of on-screen combat. You shouldn't have any issues with a 7850. Any choppiness will be the result of network issues.
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Old rig: E8400 @ 4.3GHZ, 4870 with 50mhz OC on core/mem. Played game quite fine at 1920x1200/1080p maxed out other than shadows down one notch as I don't care for them.
 
Yeah it wont take a whole lot of video card.. I have CFX 6870's but I have everything absolutely maxed @ 2560x1440 & its fine. Blizzard isnt known for requiring a high end card to max there shit out.
 
Ran it on a 4870 with a 2600k, no problems (friend1), Ran it on my i3-2100 with a 6850, no issues, ran it on a 2500k with a 550ti (friend2) no issues, and ran it on a 1045t with a 6850 (friend3) all on max settings no issues.

Any 1GB DDR5 with atleast 700 mhz or higher youll be set. When D3 is released, ill throw my old 5750 back in the comp to try it out on high settings comparing it to my 6850, i believe the 5750 will run it just as good.
 
I played it with a 6570 at 1280x720 and 1280x1024, everything maxed including AA (which I wouldn't bother with, the game looks better without it). It wasn't 60fps, but it was playable, 1280x720 ran much better than 1280x1024. I wasn't expecting that, there's normally a bigger hit from the wider FOV in 16:9 than the higher pixel count in 5:4 . Didn't bother to write down framerates, but it was usually around 30-50 fps.
 
Going to probably be like SC2, completely unoptimized and made to run on 2 cores :S
 
Q6700 3.3GHz, 4GB DDR2, GTX 560Ti OC'd, ran max very fluidly, I think a 7850 will crush it, maybe even with extra AA forced (dunno if that is possible, didn't investigate).

Great art style in the game too.
 
See my rig below. I played multiplayer beta with max settings and ran smooth with constant 50 and above FPS with FRAPS.
 
It boggles the imagination that people worry about running Diablo well. I mean if you're running angry birds ok, you're going to blow Diablo out of the water too.
 
I ran the beta during the open weekend at max settings at 2560x1600 w/ a q9550 @ 3.93ghz and a 1GB 4870 @ 850/1015. I also think you won't have a problem :)
 
Q1DM6 said:
It boggles the imagination that people worry about running Diablo well. I mean if you're running angry birds ok, you're going to blow Diablo out of the water too.
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Haha, I've wondered the same thing. Nice way to put it.
 
Guess its time to upgrade my lonely little 5770... Its lasted me a decent amount of time but I want to go all out when I pick up D3
 
WBHarrison88 said:
Guess its time to upgrade my lonely little 5770... Its lasted me a decent amount of time but I want to go all out when I pick up D3
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I dont know, I run a MSI hawk 5770 and by that benchmark looks like it will be plenty for D3, so I am not sure what you are so worried about. Interesting the 6770(same as 5770) even beat the 6850 and GTX 550ti in that benchmark at 1280x1024, that is a bit strange.

I run games at 1280x800 max so...
 
im hoping the game or drivers are a little more optimized when it comes out. during the open beta, i saw my frame rate fluctuate between 30 and 150fps while standing still.
 
Cillie said:
Beta same as Final system requirements ?
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no its not the same. while the final version will be a bit more demanding i doubt its going be all that much higher then what the beta is. given that to make a profit within the demographic that D3 will sell in they are going to have to make the game playable on a huge variety of systems so it's not going to be to insane.
 
eagleknight said:
Tomshardware just came out with a performance article about Diablo 3 today.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/diablo-iii-performance-benchmark,3195.html
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LOL. Yea... I wouldn't be too worried about maxing out the graphics.
 
Retsam said:
I dont know, I run a MSI hawk 5770 and by that benchmark looks like it will be plenty for D3, so I am not sure what you are so worried about. Interesting the 6770(same as 5770) even beat the 6850 and GTX 550ti in that benchmark at 1280x1024, that is a bit strange.

I run games at 1280x800 max so...
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Oh that's awesome! I'll try it out before I go out and spend a ton of money on a new card.

Thanks!
 
I can actually see the concern if someone wants to run the game at true max settings at 1080p or higher.. I mean look at SC2 .. my old rig E6600 C2D with 4 gig of ram and a 1 gig HD 4850 would not run SC2 on max settings if there were a lot of units on the screen.. I imagine D3 will have similar performance to SC2.. I could be completely wrong but i do understand the concern.
 
DJ_007 said:
I can actually see the concern if someone wants to run the game at true max settings at 1080p or higher.. I mean look at SC2 .. my old rig E6600 C2D with 4 gig of ram and a 1 gig HD 4850 would not run SC2 on max settings if there were a lot of units on the screen.. I imagine D3 will have similar performance to SC2.. I could be completely wrong but i do understand the concern.
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thats mostly because sc2 uses crazy CPU power not necessarily a good graphics card at all. with my i52500k i get 80fps with my 460 only saw a 10 fps increase going to a 570...


but d3 will have similar performance I just think it relies a little more on the GPU.


personally I just wanna be able to use that FXAA injector :S

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Hopefully Ultra is a bit more demanding but we'll find out next week. I'd like to upgrade my card soon but there's no game that requires it and Diablo 3 certainly isn't going to change that, it seems.
 
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