Because every season my gaming laptop struggles with D4. I used to attribute it to hiccups of a new season and the server being overrun with a lot of people. The first week is usually hard to play because my latency gets high. I couldn’t play when the season launched Tuesday night because the latency would not go under 400sect. My laptop been runnig hot too. Otherwise it play D2R, D3, and OW just fine. But I’m getting frustrated with this. I ran a pit just fine, but when I hit T to go to town it took me twenty seconds to get out of there while my friend was waiting on me to start another one. What kind of machine and system will get me above this? Currently running an MSI with Intel Core i5 and Nvidia Geoforce RTX. I am not a tech expert.
What Gen of i5?
What RTX version?
Both of those matter.
My desktop is running 12th Gen i7, with 32GB RAM, and an 8GB Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti.
And the game runs just fine.
On my laptop, yeah, the game runs HOT, and I HAVE to use an external cooling system (Coolermaster). But my laptop is 13th Gen i7, with 16GB RAM, and an 8GB Nvidia RTX 4060.
Game runs just fine on it as well, again, albeit really HOT, hence the need for the external Coolermaster cooling pad.
That said, look at your Graphics Settings in game, and turn them all down to the lowest settings and see how that helps.
11th Gen Intel(R) Core™ i5-11400H @ 2.70GHz (2.69 GHz)
8GB Ram
Graphics card is 4GB, but I can’t find which version of Nvidia it is.
Right-click on your Desktop, select “Display Settings”. Scroll down, and find “Advanced Display”. Click on that. You should see the display information there.
Its only showing me the Intel info, nothing about Nvidia. Is there a way I can find out on the Nvidia app?
Edit: Found it on the Nvidia app, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050
Ok, so you should be within the minimum requirements to run the game. Great!
So, based on that:
- Set your Graphics Settings all the way to Low in the Game Settings.
- Consider using a Cooling Pad, as overheating can certainly cause performance issues. And Laptops are just notorious for getting stupid hot when gaming.
- Make sure you don’t have unnecessary applications open when playing.
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Thank you for the help. I’ll change my in-game settings and look into a cooling pad.
8gb Is low by todays standard. When you can you should upgrade to at least a 12GB video card. I run a Asus RTX 4070 super and it does pretty good. I consider it a mid-range card but it handles pretty much what i throw at it as far as gaming goes.
Edit just realized you are on a lap top. i have a gaming laptop aswell and well they will never match a full blown PC or console for gaming. I just turnd all the graphics setting to lower then what the game starts with. I would also turn off reflections and shadowing. It helps with the memory pass off.
I was using a Lenovo Legion 5 until I gave up this PO 
And uninstalled because of the bad itemization & skills as well as the Fenris Virtual Memory which infests not only D4 but Diablo Immoral, Call of Duty, Overwatch 1 & 2, Yup Buzzard isn’t the company it used to be 
A baked potato powered by a hamster.
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I run it on an MSI i7 RTX 3060 laptop. Runs fine for me most times. Most settings are on highest, I don’t run ray tracing and my laptop will only do 1920x1080.
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I mainly play on a desktop that is using the 3060 Ti. My laptop has the RTX 4060. I don’t have issues on either machine playing the game.
Anyway, I see no reason to update the card in my desktop…D4 is the only real graphics-demanding game I play, so, unless the card bites the dust, no reason to shell out money. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
Looks like it maybe time to up grade your device if you can afford to, if you can throw more ram into it it would be a game changer and the cheapest at this time.
I have a mid-range system.
R5 5600g
64gb Ram
3060Ti 8gb
Plays the games I want to play, D4 is probably the “newest” game I play, I mainly play old games, the Fallout games, Skyrim, Borderlands and lots of indie games. Nothing wrong playing at 1080p high settings.
I play on a latpop with a 1650.
Try opening up your Nvidia Control Panel, going to Manage 3D Settings and increasing the Shader Cache setting to 10GB or higher.
I deleted my Nvidia shader cache manually prior to this season’s launch and my load screens were brutal for the first session.
They come right tho, I suspect the above will help you out too.
Until last September, I was running D4 on a 5-year-old HP “gaming” laptop. Never had any issues with it. Now, I’m on an iBuyPower I “inherited” when my nephew passed away; he bought it in 2020, so whatever they were selling then, I dunno.
I do know it has no issues running any of the games I want to play. Despite all the things I dislike about D4, stability & performance are not among them.
I’ve built every desktop PC I’ve owned dating back to 2001… but decided to go laptop in 2025 because I’m just sick of Nvidia’s BS. I got a 1080 Ti in 2017 for $600 but to get a 5090 in 2025 I have to pay $2000-3000… and have to wait 8+ months after launch to get one at MSRP?
Meh. When was the last time you saw scalpers selling laptops? I sold my 2 year old desktop and got Alienware’s new 18" Area 51 laptop.
Core Ultra 9 275HX (faster and better thermals than 14900HX)
RTX 5090m 24GB (equiv to a desktop 5070 Ti)
64GB DDR5-6400 ram
3x Samsung 9100 Pro 4TB Gen 5 drives
18" 2560x1600
An absolute beast that plays D4 and everything else I throw at it at ultra settings… and does all my video editing work as well. And it’s portable. Win win.
F the scalpers LOL…
Perfectly running on a low level 12 year HP Z230 tower workstation, upgraded with max ram to 16gb, SSD’s and a GeForce GTX 970
And D4 runs smooth as a baby’s…
I would say your main problem is the 8GB of RAM. Check if there is another memory slot available and add 8 more. Replace with a 16GB bank is there is only one and your laptop can accept it. Not much you can do if soldered.
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