I would like to buy Diablo 4. In the living room, I have a PS5 and main PC (I7 8700, 16GB ram, GTX 1060 6GB), and in the secondary room (when living room is busy, or when I work from home), I still have and use a PS4 and secondary PC (I5 8400, 12GB ram, RX 560 4GB).
I’m just unsure on which platform to buy, Playstation, or PC? I’m often gaming in my secondary room, so I guess this will boil down to this, between my PS4 (normal, not Pro) and my secondary and relatively weak PC (I5 8400, 12GB ram, RX 560 4GB), where do you think Diablo 4 would play best? PC resolution would be 1650 x 1050 (old screen I got for free), and I’m willing to play on low graphics with 30 fps, so long that it’s a stable 30 fps.
My friends play on PC, but thankfully I’ve heard that this game have cross-play, so I think I’ll be able to play with them even if I go with Playstation?
Thank you very much for your input and have a good day!
To answer your question more specifically. I have it on PC and my son has it on PS5 and I am struggling to play it at all on the PC. After the first 30 mins everything starts to get messed up - things start disappearing, really bad lag spikes kick in. Props in the world don’t render in, Mobs will render in and not be interactable etc.
The only way I have been able to get this back to playable again is to reboot my entire pc.
I think it would be more convenient on a computer, besides, your computer meets the minimum requirements, so there will be even more than 30 frames, especially at low ones (with small textures, an option when loading).
Strange problem.
I play on a weaker computer and nothing like this happens.
My FX8300 RX580(4gb) 16gb Ram at 1920x1080 worked fine, although I lowered the graphics so as not to heat the equipment, and at the same time did not even notice a special difference in detail.
I think you should check the ventilation inside the case. It looks like the equipment is heating up and some textures are missing.
My pc is fine, I know what I’m doing in that regard. thanks. Specific to your suggestion, I have the side of my case open. There are other people with similar rigs having the same issues.
I’m very glad to hear it is not a problem on your computer and many others. For many of us however, it is not fine at all.
Well, an open board sometimes does not affect well. In addition, your video card is pumping out air with a temperature of about 70 degrees Celsius, and this air can be drawn back through the open side, so the problem is quite likely. Try to draw air through the case from front/bottom to back/up. Install all possible optional fans (in the specified configuration). I think it will reduce the heat a bit.
My friend, I have assembled more than 100 computers, I did it professionally, being an employee of the service center, I can even know much more than you think. Just my advice, If there is heating when the case is closed, then most likely the case does not fit the power of the equipment. For example, I generally have a server case with 6 fans, and in principle, even at 35 degrees in the room, I control the temperature in the case.
PS. Your problem is similar to overheating of the video card memory, while addressing the position of objects is lost and they disappear when the error suppression mechanism is turned on.
I don’t know what program you are using. But at the moment, it most fully shows HWinfo, it reads all available sensors, it is also able to read sensors installed next to the video card memory.
The problem is that you have this indicates a possible problem with the video memory. There is a familiar person who plays on 3060 at high or ultra settings, he does not have such problems. By the way, do you have ultra settings for 4k? It is possible that the problem occurs precisely on 4k.
I did end up getting Diablo 4 on the PC after all, and with my relatively weak computer (I5 8400, 12GB RAM, 500GB NVME SSD and AMD RX 560 4GB, the game is surprisingly playable and enjoyable enough.
With my resolution, 1680x1050, with Fidelity FX Super Resolution 2 set to Quality, and with the quality preset set to Medium, I tend to have between 40 to 50 FPS, and it feels smooth enough for me. Honestly, a bit surprised here, I was expecting worse performance than that.
So, if someone else have a computer relatively comparable to mine and is hesitating to buy Diablo 4 because of performance, the game is quite playable and enjoyable, at least for me (I’m about midway in Act II). Of course you will have to accept compromises with graphics, as I did, but if you just want to play and don’t care about max graphics, then this game is fine. At least according to my experience with it, your mileage may vary.