I tried everything to make it play right but won’t work. Is my laptop not good enough? to be semi playable at minimum requires tiny window.
not sure how to compare.
i7-12700H 2300 Mhz
nvidia geforce RTX 3050
16gb memory
Do you have the game on an HDD or SSD?
The things you listed should be good enough to run smoothly at medium/low settings. I have a similar laptop and no issues.
As the person above said, if its installed on a HDD its going to hurt performance. Make sure your drivers are up to date, check task manager to to see if something is eating up your ram or cpu, yada yada
should be good enough yes, probably need to turn down some settings though and perhaps cap your fps,
The ultra setting imo are overkill and you VRAM on your 3050 matters, so based on res on your machine and vram turn textures down, it will still look good on medium imo, high if you can handle it.
Shadows and shaders low-medium is another setting i use. Both are resource hogs.for me
6gb vram, i have on , stuff needs turning down to not be janky to play.
This is very important and solved performance issues I, and a number of friends, was having - eg. I was plagued with crashes early on and they’re a thing of the past now.
Performance is smooth smooth.
In multiple instance with friends - they have much higher end systems(in one case a top of the line rig) and FPS was the solution to most of the problems they encountered.
I have a very ‘mid’ system, am not tech savvy and more or less ‘used the force’ to go through each setting and decide what I was willing to have set to Low or Off so that I could keep textures and character models/effects high or as high as possible and still have a smooth, satisfying experience.
Good luck.
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I ungraded my 8 GB RAM to 36 GB and went from High to Medium Settings, my lower end rig runs D4 just fine.
Below are the current minimum and recommended system requirements for Diablo IV on Windows®. Due to potential programming changes, these requirements may change over time.
Minimum Requirements
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OS: 64-bit Windows® 10 version 1909 or newer
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Processor: Intel® Core i5-2500K or AMD™ FX-8350
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Memory: 8 GB RAM
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Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 660 or AMD Radeon™ R9 280 or Intel® Arc™ A380
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DirectX®: Version 12
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Storage: SSD with 90 GB available space
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Internet: Broadband Connection
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1080p native resolution / 720p render resolution, low graphics settings, 30fps
** Diablo IV will attempt to run on hardware below minimum specifications, including HDDs, dual-core CPUs, and Integrated GPUs. However, the game experience may be significantly diminished.
Medium (Recommended Requirements)
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OS: 64-bit Windows® 10 version 1909 or newer
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Processor: Intel® Core i5-4670K or AMD™ R3-1300X
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Memory: 16 GB RAM
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Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 970 or AMD Radeon™ RX 470 or Intel® Arc™ A380
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DirectX®: Version 12
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Storage: SSD with 90 GB available space
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Internet: Broadband Connection
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1080p resolution, medium graphics settings, 60fps
High
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OS: 64-bit Windows® 10 version 1909 or newer
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Processor: Intel® Core i7-8700K or AMD Ryzen™ 2700X
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Memory: 16 GB RAM
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Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce® RTX 2060 or AMD Radeon™ RX 5700 XT or Intel® Arc™ A770
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DirectX®: Version 12
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Storage: SSD with 90 GB available space
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Internet: Broadband Connection
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1080p resolution, high graphics settings, 60fps
Ultra 4k
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OS: 64-bit Windows® 10 version 1909 or newer
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Processor: Intel® Core i7-8700K or AMD Ryzen™ 7 2700X
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Memory: 32 GB RAM
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Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce® RTX 3080; NVIDIA GeForce® RTX 40 Series for fully supported DLSS3 or AMD Radeon™ RX 6800 XT
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DirectX®: Version 12
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Storage: SSD with 90 GB available space
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Internet: Broadband Connection
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4k resolution, ultra graphics settings, 60fps
If you are not tech savvy, yes i always recommend start at basics, capping fps is a good one. Just eliminates the issue being too many FPS being rendered by the GPU and can easily be returned to unlocked or a higher FPS later.
Other than that Textures - Shadows and Shaders i look at next and anything that says vram or cpu or both next to it, read what it says and maybe adjust.
Best thing though is those top 3 , one at a time adjustments for fine tunning.
takes longer but this way i have a better sense of what causes the issue, and don’t have things turned down to low that don’t need to be.
If the game is really struggling, everything goes medium or low and i work like i suggest above and one at a time raise it and test, until i am good. Again usually only those top 3 first and then others settings
Antialiasing would be another i look at with the whole NVidia Dlss thing and usually performance of high performance for those. Sometimes too high sampling can result performance issues with the default settings.
With Vram most game s have either a usage bar or a setting recommendation like D4 when in the textures tab, those are also usually key to smooth gameplay, if this caps out the game will play badly.
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i tried a dozen methods to fix the issue and while a few helped a little none worked. It is installed on SSD> this is xps 17 dell laptop, i got the last generation at discount while they released the new one. They had 2 options for upgrade 500 or 1000$ cdn for graphics i paid 500
What other programs is running in the background while playing diablo 4? This is something a lot of people don’t realize. As i said before I have a $300 walmart laptop with no dedicated gpu. I can play the game at stable 60 fps. I have to disable every single program that isn’t essential just to play diablo 4.