Poor Diablo III performance?

[Mr. Fox]

Ive been playing Diablo 3 for over an hour now

Alienware Mx18 R2 Diablo 3 - YouTube
^ the kind of performance im now getting after using radeon pro with the Fear 2 profile

and stayed below 53 C

Yay! Nice, Steve. Did you try the tweaks I suggested?

[izpirikitik]

Looks normal to me. You don't use FPS limits (at the graphic options panel in D3), do you ?

you got that right.. i had the diablo fps limits checked... unchecked it and now runs an ave of 160-180 fps

[Murtagh]

Why do people not use Virtual SYNC? it limits your fps to your screen refresh rate. 6o FPS for most of us. Anything beyond 60 fps is faster than your screen goes, essentially making your GPU run harder/hotter for no reason.

Or am I missing something? (I'm not expert and could very well be).

[Heihachi88]

Why do people not use Virtual SYNC? it limits your fps to your screen refresh rate. 6o FPS for most of us. Anything beyond 60 fps is faster than your screen goes, essentially making your GPU run harder/hotter for no reason.

Or am I missing something? (I'm not expert and could very well be).

Yes, indeed. I am using vertical sync too. No need to see 80 or 150 FPS...

[Mr. Fox]

Some of us like seeing the FPS... it just feels good even if it's overkill, LOL. But, agree that it is not necessary for good times with the games.

[Heihachi88]

Some of us like seeing the FPS... it just feels good even if it's overkill, LOL. But, agree that it is not necessary for good times with the games.

Dual 6990M's or 7970M's is already overkill for D3.. I think human eye can't recognize a difference between 60FPS and 150FPS... So that's just digits

[Mr. Fox]

While you're technically correct, that doesn't really change the fact that the higher FPS are satisfying to those that like seeing them. It's more about power and performance than what the eye can detect in graphic quality.

Unfettered by vsynch, the FPS separates adequate, from powerful, from very powerful GPUs. For some users, there is more to it than simply meeting the definition of "playable" framerates.

[Heihachi88]

While you're technically correct, that doesn't really change the fact that the higher FPS are satisfying to those that like seeing them. It's more about power and performance than what the eye can detect in graphic quality.

Unfettered by vsynch, the FPS separates adequate, from powerful, from very powerful GPUs. For some users, there is more to it than simply meeting the definition of "playable" framerates.

Well i dont mind to see 200 FPS in games too but doesn't it creates a nonsense load to GPU's?

[Zeju]

Some people may disagree, or simply have other reasons, but the reason I'm buying a M18x isn't because I want to have the biggest stick, it's because I want my stick to whack real good when other sticks are breaking.

Ok that was a caveman analogy and absolutely horrible but it's worth a laugh, no more to the point, if your computer is caning a game at 200fps, then in 4-5 years time, you'll be running high end games comfortably still, that's why I want a M18x, too often I see computers that are for the short term, people who fork out money into an Alienware do it for the long term.

[Mr. Fox]

Well i dont mind to see 200 FPS in games too but doesn't it creates a nonsense load to GPU's?

No, I do not think so. The load is basically the same. Clock speeds and temps are the same... v-snych doesn't lessen performance or load, it just manages what you see on your display for the most part. It can help make sporadic framerates more consistent and it can improve the image quality of what you see.