Or will it cause my fan to go berserk running it on a 7-yr-old GTX 970?
Can you tin D2R with it?
I think the 970 will be fine. Honestly i think the answer to that question will depend on nvidia and whether or not they will still offer driver dupport for the 900 series by the time D4 rolls out. AMD ends up having longer self lives on their gpu because they offer driver support for much longer.
Nah, probably not.
And it will be hard checked like with D2:R.
Perhaps you should not care that much, unless you enjoy p2w games (which fine).
R.I.P Diablo 4
@Faith Even though I am concerned about D4 having pay to win. But it is not 100% certain that pay to win will be in D4’s cash shop. I will take a wait and see approach though.
I’ll have to wait and see as well…
Them saying D:I isn’t p2w, does not give me any hope in that regard…
You have 1 year to save up.
It will probably run, but not optimal.
Anything less than 4K 60 fps is not acceptable by me. But that’s just me.
You’ll probably be able to run it at like 720p at low to med with 60 fps. Speaking from experience with D2R. I have a 6yr old GPU.
Not you personally, but I know way too many that say stuff like this and claim OoT as the greatest game ever with it’s 480 sub 20FPS.
And what besides unfounded, sky is falling, slippery slope, fearmongering BS, would lead tou to believe it will be P2W. Because, outside of what I listed, they have said otherwise.
I am confident D4 will not be P2W. It’s the last thing one need to worry about.
Not because I think they are not greedy. But I know they are smart enough not to have P2W in a main line Diablo game. They even remove lootbox from overwatch 2. They know loot boxes are end of life.
The simple fact that they felt the need to comment on D4’s monetization after the whole D:I debacle but still ended up avoiding a straight forward “you 100% won’t be able to buy power in D4” doesn’t exactly raise my confidence.
It would have been an easy win for them and still they didn’t do it, so the question is why and we probably don’t like the answer.
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Backup pc i5 gtx 650 works fine with d3 and poe(pixelated). DI worked fine. So what can get wrong with D4?
Just built my son a budget gaming computer last week.
i3 10100F - Used like new for 67
Gigabyte B460M DS3H - Open box for 57
Gigabyte 512GB SSD NVME drive - New for 50
EVGA GTX 970 superclocked - Refurbished for 185
Already had:
NZXT case
Brand new 700W PSU
Used 16GB DDR4 2133 (2x 8GB)
Used 2TB Hitachi HDD (for storage)
Brand new 120 and 140mm fans
Used DVD-RW optical drive
He has been playing Doom for the past few days on it. lol Actually the damn thing runs smoother than mine with that older card.
I had set him up on a temp desktop 3 weeks ago that had a 550ti in it, and that ran D3 just fine. But then a modern laptop with only intel graphics can run D3 so that’s not saying much.
970s are decent for the value. I have a 2nd gen i7 system next to me with the Asus Strix 980 in it. And my main desktop has an MSI 1660 running on a gen 7 i5…
I suspect that the 970 will carry D4 ok enough for now. But definitely save up. I noticed cards have been dropping slightly in price the past week.
My guess is that yes, a 970 will be fine, although maybe not at top game settings.
Blizz is pretty well known for making games that run on older hardware. They released the requirements for the next WoW Expansion the other day… the min on that is a GTX 970.