Diablo 3 M11X R3 how does it run?

[cr1mson]

Yah i cant even get online anymore to run tests. I dont even get an error, the log in button is completely greyed out

[Maca0716]

My game runs fine on the R3, Only problems im getting are loading lag, Which from others ive heard its not the laptop but the servers themselfs, There lagged out to . Playing over wireless doesnt help aswell

How do you define, fine? Are you happy with the FPS dips or are you saying Diablo 3 somehow runs amazing on your machine with 60fps all the time?

Interested to know.

[amd098]

ok, r1 is a no go.

4 player games with everything off/lowest setting, in big battles it will drop to 2-3 fps.
you can do the game solo and it will work fine, but the moment you get 3 more players in the game, it will drop fps when you get a few [8+] monsters on your screen

not sure if the newer nvidia drivers will make a difference, but im on the 263 by dell, and its pretty bad in large battles

[Yiddo]

ok, r1 is a no go.

4 player games with everything off/lowest setting, in big battles it will drop to 2-3 fps.
you can do the game solo and it will work fine, but the moment you get 3 more players in the game, it will drop fps when you get a few [8+] monsters on your screen

not sure if the newer nvidia drivers will make a difference, but im on the 263 by dell, and its pretty bad in large battles

That has got to be physics then because R2 owners are seeing pretty good results with the 335M GT, sadly might be the restriction of the old duo core CPU's.

Still in Beta though and updates may come. I have not been able to log in at all to any server from the UK just having 0 luck even after trying all possible fixes. Going to just wait for the real game.

[Voodooi]

That has got to be physics then because R2 owners are seeing pretty good results with the 335M GT, sadly might be the restriction of the old duo core CPU's.

Still in Beta though and updates may come. I have not been able to log in at all to any server from the UK just having 0 luck even after trying all possible fixes. Going to just wait for the real game.

You should try using the North American server instead. I've had zero log in issues from morning to night

Latency shouldn't be that bad - I play FPS games on UK servers all the time and the worst is 200ms, which is still very playable.

[Mazdaspeed_6]

here you guys go. FPS drops hard in intensive CPU bound areas. I turned throttle stop on and off to show the differences in FPS. just uploaded it so HD quality may take a while to kick in.

M11x Diablo III Beta - YouTube

[darkdomino]

I can confirm what Mazdaspeed_6 just posted. My M11x R2 handles Diablo 3 fairly well, but I do experience FPS drops with multiple spell effects going off on-screen. With 4 people, it can get very choppy when things get really crazy... especially with many skeletons on screen, or many of those fat demon thingies exploding. Most of the time it's very playable.

Blizzard seems to enjoy making their newer games incredibly CPU intensive... which kinda sucks... but oh well.

[amd098]

im going to update the nvidia driver and see how it works, ill let yall know
updating to 296.10 wit 550/1350/875

its much better with the OC and the drivers
fps only drops to about 8 in 4 player games, but still pretty bad
i think its the cpu thats choking, and there is too much going on for it to handle

[cr1mson]

OK so i play for about 1 hour today and found major improvements. These are the settings im using:

Texture detail - High
Shadows - Off
Physics - High
Clutter - Low
AA and low fx off

I get around 60fps alone, ~ 30-50 in intense battles
with 4 other people roughly the same, with a few instances going to 20 but totally playable!

No overclock whatsoever, everything stock. After about 1 hour cpu temps were about ~78 degrees, and GPU ~ 80 degrees.

Pretty satisfied at the moment, will keep testing though!

[AuxHero]

Is anyone noticing that the CPU throttles back every once in a while, especially when there are people in your party or you have a companion? This is driving me absolutely crazy. Runs around 60, then drops to low teens until i minimize and let the CPU cool for a second.

Anyone else?