Minimum & Recomended System Requirements?

[gophils]

I'm sure this topics been beaten to death, but has anyone heard any new updates on possible system requirements? I'm looking to buy a new PC and want to make sure it can support the game.

[chezzmaster]

I just ordered a new PC, it will be my first ever gaming computer. My goal in making it was for it to be able to handle D3 and SC3 when they came out, so we are in the same boat.

[gophils]

I'm interested in this but need some input on how it will hold up with Diablo 3:

Dell Studio XPS Desktop

PROCESSOR: Intel® Core™ i7-920 Processor(8MB L3 Cache, 2.66GHz)

OPERATING SYSTEM: Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium Edition SP1, 64-Bit

MEMORY: 6GB Tri-Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1066MHz - 6 DIMMs

HARD DRIVE: 640GB - 7200RPM, SATA 3.0Gb/s, 16MB Cache

MONITOR: 23" Dell S2309W Full HD Widescreen Monitor

VIDEO CARD: ATI Radeon HD 4850 512MB

SOUND CARD: Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio

[Gorny]

Please do not spam threads on the forums.

Your identical thread in the D3 General Forum is closed for this reason.

[Risingred]

I'm interested in this but need some input on how it will hold up with Diablo 3:

Dell Studio XPS Desktop

PROCESSOR: Intel® Core™ i7-920 Processor(8MB L3 Cache, 2.66GHz)

OPERATING SYSTEM: Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium Edition SP1, 64-Bit

MEMORY: 6GB Tri-Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1066MHz - 6 DIMMs

HARD DRIVE: 640GB - 7200RPM, SATA 3.0Gb/s, 16MB Cache

MONITOR: 23" Dell S2309W Full HD Widescreen Monitor

VIDEO CARD: ATI Radeon HD 4850 512MB

SOUND CARD: Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio

Well, that's a bit overkill. That's a little under the system I have now. But ordering it...from Dell? You're probably spending at least $1,500 (USD) more than you would by building it and you're getting crappy components (the motherboard and RAM in particular).

From what we've seen, I'd say it's a fair assumption that D3 would run okay on any mid-to-low-end dual core/x-2 machine.

edit: I do like HP's monitors though. They're my favorite.

[gophils]

The total price is under $1400. Do you think the video card would hold up with games like COD, D3 and GTAIV? The 6 GB memory and the Intel i7-920 2.66 ghz is more than enough, correct?

[Risingred]

The total price is under $1400. Do you think the video card would hold up with games like COD, D3 and GTAIV? The 6 GB memory and the Intel i7-920 2.66 ghz is more than enough, correct?

With a dell system, especially on such new tech, the video card is the least of your concerns.

[drae]

Well, besides the video card my system is similar. I like nVidea and I prefer more... brand name ram.

I can tell you that I was recently able to compress a video while 10 man raiding in wow; with the settings on ultra :D (hint, buy the biggest aftermarket cpu cooler that can fit in your case... i7's are HOT!)

I built my pc with the same hopes (SC2 and D3). There's no way to know for sure, but blizzard is excellent at insuring a wide range of hardware can be used to play their games (if not at the highest settings). Traditionally 2year old hardware has little problems running the initial release, and xpacks ramp up the reqs.

I hope this helps.

[Risingred]

The i7s do run kind of hot but not too bad. Nothing compared to the 800mhz era. For comparison, they run a bit hotter than a C2D.

If there's a game that comes out within the next year that I can't run, that means the game is broken. :p

A decent i7 system is future-proof for a while.

[Furvy]

You're all crazy. SC2 and D3 will run on any system that can run WoW well. Do you honestly think that your super high-end systems are going to be what Blizzard is going to require their players to have? No, they're going to have similar but perhaps slightly higher system requirements than WoW. Duh.

Quit using threads like these just to post how great your new system is. Go brag somewhere else.

[Akse]

I heard it will only work on Linux operating systems!






:) to OP ffs of course it will run on that computer.. btw in some months ATI will drop their card prices a lot.. you should get 4890 for 100$ or something soon.(thats what I read anyways) They are about to release their new directx 11 cards in the fall i suppose so they try to sell out the old chips i guess.

[Furvy]

Hey guys! I just heard that Blizzard is going to start requiring that their players have the absolute highest-end systems possible to play any of their upcoming games!

Now I have to go out and buy a system with an i7 975 EE, 12GB of DDR3 2000, Dual GTX295's and Quad X25-E SSD's in RAID0 to be able to run DIII at the lowest settings! Whatever will I do!?

[Gorny]

You're all crazy. SC2 and D3 will run on any system that can run WoW well. Do you honestly think that your super high-end systems are going to be what Blizzard is going to require their players to have? No, they're going to have similar but perhaps slightly higher system requirements than WoW. Duh.

Quit using threads like these just to post how great your new system is. Go brag somewhere else.

Excuse me?

Who are you to tell people what they can and cannot post?

There is no problem with people posting system specs or posting what the specs of a new comp to be bought.

[Risingred]

You're all crazy. SC2 and D3 will run on any system that can run WoW well.

That isn't necessarily true. Even if it is, that's why I suggested a low-to-mid dual core machine. You can buy those things boxed now for like $300.


Quit using threads like these just to post how great your new system is. Go brag somewhere else.

Nobody is bragging. We are discussing computers. The guy asked a question...it was answered. If I wanted to "brag" I'd post my dxdiag.

[drae]

You're all crazy. SC2 and D3 will run on any system that can run WoW well. Do you honestly think that your super high-end systems are going to be what Blizzard is going to require their players to have? No, they're going to have similar but perhaps slightly higher system requirements than WoW. Duh.

Quit using threads like these just to post how great your new system is. Go brag somewhere else.

Diablo 3 will most likely be released in late 2010 (Blizz is good for about 1 major title a year, SC2 is this year) and WotLK was released in 2008, WoW itself was released in what... 2004? I know some people who still play WoW on a single core, with less then a gig of ram.... I highly doubt, given the time elapsed and the visuals in the gameplay trailers; that anyone would be able to play D3 with a single-core with less then a gig of ram. Also I doubt the Geforce 2 would have the juice for D3.

For more on Wow's system req.s look
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/faq/technology.html

Really a P4? You think you can run D3 on a P4? I could barely raid in Vanilla wow on a P4... Blizzard has always allowed for a wide spectrum of hardware performance when building their games; but I think you have given them too much credit here.

Hey guys! I just heard that Blizzard is going to start requiring that their players have the absolute highest-end systems possible to play any of their upcoming games

Now I have to go out and buy a system with an i7 975 EE, 12GB of DDR3 2000, Dual GTX295's and Quad X25-E SSD's in RAID0 to be able to run DIII at the lowest settings! Whatever will I do!?


...but blizzard is excellent at insuring a wide range of hardware can be used to play their games (if not at the highest settings). Traditionally 2year old hardware has little problems running the initial release, and xpacks ramp up the reqs.


Learn to read before you post please Furvy. Trolls are not appreciated.:thumbup: good one.:thumbup:

[Risingred]

Really a P4? You think you can run D3 on a P4?

Precisely. And WoW doesn't have the kind of lighting that D3 has, nor does it have physics, nor does it do decals and other options like that. D3 will be a more resource-intensive program than World of WarCraft.

[Furvy]

Heh, sorry I just found it a little odd that someone who has an i7-based system actually thinks that their machine won't be able to run SC2 or DIII. The difference in performance between an i7-based system and a P4-based system or even a Core 2-based system is huge. I honestly thought they were just bragging to look cool or something.

Why do I think this? It doesn't exactly look like SC2 or DIII are going to be very hardware-intensive games, honestly. I'm sure you're right about DIII not being able to run on a P4 with a Geforce 2 as I never actually bothered to check the WoW requirements, but I still doubt that the requirements for SC2 or DIII are going to be that much higher than WoW from what we've seen in the gameplay videos.

Also, if you know anything about computer hardware, you would be familiar with Moore's law which basically means that the processing power of computers roughly doubles every six months. This means that the differences in performance for 2-year-old hardware from 5 years ago is exponentially different from 2-year-old hardware today and will be even greater in 2011 when DIII possibly comes out. Therefore, the "2-year-old hardware" rule doesn't exactly apply. From what I'm seeing, I really think that Blizzard is developing their games with requirements far, far less exponentially rising in system requirements than what Moore's Law provides. Right now, it pretty much looks like 5 or 6-year-old hardware (by 2011) is going to be more than enough to run DIII when it comes out.

Please, prove me wrong if you are educated in game development and can provide me compelling reasons why DIII in its current state could possibly have i7-based systems as a minimum system requirement.

Also,

Learn to read before you post please Furvy. Trolls are not appreciated.:thumbup: good one.:thumbup:
It's called sarcasm. I was trying to be funny :P.

[Risingred]

Please, prove me wrong if you are educated in game development and can provide me compelling reasons why DIII in its current state could possibly have i7-based systems as a minimum system requirement.

...nobody said anything like the. The OP obviously isn't a computer science major and was just asking a question.

Moore's law is a bit outdated. We went from upping the clock rate on incredibly hot processors to splitting the load to multiple cores with lower clock rates. It isn't so much about speed anymore as it is about making what we have run a lot more efficiently (I'M LOOKING AT YOU, DX10), and thus the new generation (i7, LGA 1366 boards) do away with legacy hardware such as FSB. The big problem now is the memory gap.

The sysreqs for WoW go up a bit with each expansion. Just to play doesn't require much (unless you're raiding - there's a huge spike in resources between raiding and just playing casually) but if you have it on the lowest settings, it looks incredibly bad.

I think the spectrum for hardware on SC2 and D3 is going to be a bit tighter than what WoW has because of the way the games are built. I still believe that an average dual core setup with about 3gb of RAM and a decent graphics card (nVidia 8XXX series or better) would do just fine, if other similar games (Sacred 2, Warrior Epic, et cetera) that have come out lately are any indication.

[drae]

I don't think the game play teaser video is a very accurate yardstick to measure against, as it will be almost 3 years old by the release of D3. It's not even alpha level yet. I believe there will be serious improvements in graphics quality between what we see now and the final product; of course many of the improvements may be optional. Regardless I don't wanna play d3 in super low crappy mode, WoW has displayed just how bad a game can be with a "minimum spec" rig.

[drae]

Also,

It's called sarcasm. I was trying to be funny :P.



It definitely sounded more like jealousy then humour. Coincidentally, when using sarcasm with out the liberal use of emoticons; expect your post to be misunderstood, sarcasm doesn't convey well in text.

[Cxplorer]

I really hope that my laptop can run this game. I don't have the money right now to buy a new computer.

[Risingred]

The new core i5 sets are out today so you may see some cheap systems coming next year.
Good news for all of you upgrading folk.

[Cxplorer]

I'm still paying my laptop that I bought from 2007 lol ><; !!

[Arutha]

The new core i5 sets are out today so you may see some cheap systems coming next year.
Good news for all of you upgrading folk.

I don't really see the point of the new i5/i7 & P55 mobo's, I mean for the price of the high end P55 mobo's you can get a decent x58 mobo. The EVGA P55 Classified with the NF200 chip is $350 and the FTW model with the NF200 chip is $300 while the EVGA x58 SLI is also $300 and you can get an i7 920 D0 stepping for around $200. With that said I don't really care as it doesn't effect me since I think I will stick with my EVGA 750i FTW & intel Q9550 for at least another year.

[StrikexForce]

Well D3 doesnt come out until 2011, so hardware will be much more advanced then.

However with that being said everyone knows Blizzard makes games that run well on older PCs, so I think that any brand new Mid range system today could run D3 on low settings, with a high end rig being able to run on full settings.

Personally Im going to buy a mid range system ($1100-1400) a few weeks before D3 releases to take advantage of the newest hardware at the time and im sure it will run on full settings maxed.