Thought this would be a helpful thread for people who are interested in buying a laptop solely for D2R.
I personally don’t have room on my desk for a PC/tower, so I need to buy the best laptop possible to run D2R at max settings or at least 4k 60FPS. I most likely won’t be using this laptop for anything else since I already have multiple macbooks and I’m not really interested in any other PC games.
Would love to hear some insight/experiences from those of you who played the beta on their gaming laptops.
If you have a gaming laptop and you had a great experience playing D2R beta please feel free to share which name/model.
I’m leaning towards one of these
ASUS ROG Zephyrus G15
ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 (Would be most ideal because of compact size)
ASUS ROG Strix G15 Advantage Edition
Ideally looking for something that doesn’t look like an obnoxious gaming laptop, but still a power beast enough to give the full D2R experience. Ideally leaning towards getting a ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14, but worried it won’t be powerful enough to run the game super well. Would love to know if anyone has any of these and how their experiences have been.
The Dell G series gaming laptops look decently professional. They still have the light up keyboard but at least they don’t advertise that your have a gaming laptop. I have a G7 I use and it ran the game just fine. All desync issues were had by others who used regular comps so I know it wasn’t my machine.
It did turn my beer into tea when I left it sitting next to the laptop while I was playing beta…
well to be fair the beta wasn’t very optimized many high spec laptop and desktop had some heat problem with the game even if not dangerous.
Will be fixed at launch with a little drivers most probably though.
well mine is a bit of a custom model as in improved compared to base legion 5 pro.
and i got it at a great discount for 1171€ (the custom/improved version cost quiet more normally) and it was in april.
That being said , yea Diablo 2 R isn’t very ressources hungry , just be sure to have quiet a bit or ram : atleast 16 while being a bit over the recommended spec for diablo 2 R (since laptop are usually weaker than desktop)
but no need to go as high as mine.
A six core CPU could be a plus though.
But do definitely take one with a dedicated graphics cards , otherwise it might not run xD
it also depends if you want to play low , high or ultra.
but i see very little difference between those 3 options personally having tried to compare them.
And even for ultra my laptop is a bit on the “overspec” side so it’s not hard to run ultra.
Almost no differences between low and ultra to me.
here’s a link that might help you :
windowscentral/best-laptops-diablo-2-resurrected
(type that on google , can’t add http or com sadly )
Personally, if you’re gonna get a laptop, avoid ANY “ultra-thin” gaming laptops. They are a cancer on the laptop market. Very difficult to maintain because they are passively cooled which typically means thermal pastes will thin out and become less thermally efficient. My last few would hit 100c while doing tasks as simple as watching YouTube videos. My last one was the Asus ROG Zephyrus S.
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