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Sorry if this thread has been made before, I've searched around these forums and haven't found anything that answers my question satisfactorily.
Anyway, so I'm pretty much a poor college kid getting by on a business laptop. I know Blizzard said that it doesn't want graphics to be a limiting factor for people to play D3, but would a non-super high end laptop still be able to run D3 to a decent degree? If it helps any, I have an nVidia Quadro NVS 140m (standard on business builds).
I'm also kicking myself for SC2...I'm having worries about being able to run that as well :/
Hey, you live relatively close to me! (I'm in Raleigh.)
Anyway... this is probably not of much help, but I have an extremely old IBM Thinkpad (it's at least 9 years old, minimum) which could always run DII: LoD with no noticeable slowness or problems that I ever became aware of. So if the technology's growth of this decade is comparable to the last decade, if you have a newer, higher-end laptop than my Thinkpad, I can easily see it running D3. Then again, who knows? Not me.
The Geforce Go 6800 shares the same core architecture as the desktop line of Geforce 6800 cards and is the current fastest mobile 3D graphics option available. Performance exceeds the mobility radeon 9800 by up to 40% to 50% or more as the screen resolution increases.
Quadro's aren't known for being too gaming friendly, but they do support advanced 3D features, as they are primarily used for things like AUTOCAD and 3D manipulation. I would say that if you can run something like Warcraft III (a simialar looking engine) and a recent shooter title (Like Quake Wars, UTIII, etc.) even on low settings, you should have confidence that it will be playable on your machine.
Okay, I have a Dell Vostro 1700, about two years old.
system specs:
Intel Core 2 Duo 1.60 GHz
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT
2.00 GB RAM
I'm not very savvy with computers, but my laptop seems to run Titan Quest and its expansion pack without any trouble.
In the official tech geeks' opinion, what's the likelihood that I can run Diablo 3?
The processor might hurt your settings a bit (as CPUs generally deal with physics calculations), but if I were to make a wild guess I'd say this is passable.
now you're just showing off, beardedcap...that's awsome for a laptop...quite awsome atleast...but you should be able to hadle it more than just fine...but it IS a laptop, and the specs on those can be conceiving...
I'd take a guess that the absolute minimum you would need is at least a card that can run directx 9.0c.
That's what I see for most of the new games coming out now as a minimum spec.
As for processing speed, if you have any hicups on a laptop, you could just turn the sound quality way down, which should help your processor do the graphics better. It worked on my laptop with left 4 dead on near minimum settings.
Also, I think that someone did a article or something discovering what type of pixel shader the demo at blizzcon was using. I'm fairly certain he said directx 9.0c.
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