Diablo 3 review

[dataDave]

Is it one of the newer i5 Sandybridge processors? Mine's a 2410M with 2.30GHZ. Also have 4GB ram and an Nvidia 525M graphics chip.

I'm having to ramp up my GTX560m to 925mhz core to get 60fps. Even in the sewers (heaviest part of the entire game) the adaptive v-sync will drop off and lower the FPS to around 40. Rubbish.

Rmoxon: Find your D3 preferences file in your 'My Documents' folder. D3prefs.txt I think... Anyway, change the HardwareClass value to "1" down from 3 or 4 ("0" is unsupported GPU), this will help out a ton as it will lower the shader requirements. I'm running on 1 and the graphics have gone from "Ball-bustingly intensive" to "Very, very nice".

Frame stutters can't be helped. It's how the game is streamed from the HDD (even SSDs are having this issue). They are working on optimising it.

[Supergoal]

It's actually not that bad where I'm at. It can't be a server issue since I average close to 200ms and it plays fine.

[dataDave]

I'm getting tons of input delay and rubber-banding, FPS counter is stuck at 60 so I'm not bothered either way, the network issues will resolve.

[Daragon]

You'd like to hope so, but can you honestly expect a better situation than what we have now from Blizzard, when they're refusing any and all responsibility for account hacking for example? I suspect lessons won't be learned and appropriate action being taken until it's too late.

My latency issue is now just as bad on the Euro servers as it is on the American ones - noticeable improvements will need either fewer people playing or Blizzard spending their own money on better hardware. Which is more likely do we think?

[elaniel]

Just been watching trailers (never played Diablo before) and it looks really cool. Don't know how I feel about knocking out 45 quid for it straight away though (in case I don't like it). Saw there were starter passes but i've gotta wait a few weeks for it. That really sucks.

[rmoxon]

Just been watching trailers (never played Diablo before) and it looks really cool. Don't know how I feel about knocking out 45 quid for it straight away though (in case I don't like it). Saw there were starter passes but i've gotta wait a few weeks for it. That really sucks.

Im sure that someone on this thread said that you don't need a pass to play the starter edition, you just need to register with battle.net

[elaniel]

I've registered, but it says the starter edition only becomes available 30 days after the game has been released.

[dataDave]

Yeah, I dropped the ball there, sorry. Thought anyone could access right away.

[dataDave]

Just buy it, dude. You are guaranteed to like the game itself... The optimisation and network issues maybe not so.

Everyone should make sure they get the free authenticator for their phones as the amount of hackery going on is obscene.

[elaniel]

Just got to find somewhere that has it in stock. It seems they purposely undershipped to force you to pay ?45 on their own site if you want it. Which is disgusting for a digital copy

[Riskbreaker]

Honestly matey, don't buy it online, ?45 is a joke and I'm pretty sure you won't pay anywhere near that in a store.

Completed Normal last night, Act IV felt a little bit anti-climatic compared to III, but on the whole it's been an enjoyable ride. Definitely much better played with other players even randoms, but I needed to solo the campaign to get it out of my system and not have vets click their way through all the quests.

My hardcore character is nearing the end of Act I but some of the lag spikes have me anxious about pressing on further. Teaming up may have safety in numbers but also bumps up the difficulty. My approach at the moment is just to dabble with it so that the inevitable death doesn't hit too hard

[elaniel]

I've ordered a ?35 copy on Play, but says ships in 10 days. So hopefully

[eastyy]

ok new patch out and its causing more problems keeps telling me when i try to log in there is a new patch and will quit to download....even though done that already

[originalbadboy]

ok new patch out and its causing more problems keeps telling me when i try to log in there is a new patch and will quit to download....even though done that already

Strange mine is up to date apparenty

[Daragon]

Supermarkets will probably still have the game for close to the ?30 mark. I know tesco does.