Need help with running Diablo 3

~Havrrics Jul 7, 2012

Here is my problem: I have an AMD Turion Neo X2 Dual Core Processor L625, CanIRunIt.com says I need Intel Pentium D 2.8 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ or better as far as my CPU goes. I also have an ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics video card, the same site again says I need an NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT or ATI Radeon X1950 Pro or better. Now this is my laptop, so upgrade by taking it to Geek Squad is possible I suppose, but these are the only areas my computer fails to meet expectations. Will these shortcomings prevent me from playing the game at all, or just be a minor deterrent to framerate if I lower all the quality settings?

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`rayvinazn Jul 7, 2012

You have a laptop. You cannot get the upgrade you really and truly need to run the game (a new graphics card). Not without an electrical engineering degree, extensive programming experience, and probably a mechanical engineering degree to maintain heat management. Geek Squad definitely can't help you, most of them barely graduated high school and tend to know less about computers than anyone that's actually built one themselves.

As for playing the game...probably not well. You might be able to run it at some absurdly low resolution like 800x600 with all low settings, but even then it'll probably stutter quite a bit. The graphics "card" you have is the biggest problem. The HD 3200 isn't an actual graphics card, merely an onboard graphics chipset. It has all the API features necessary to run the game, but the actual brute force of it is probably not enough to run the game.

Next time, don't buy a laptop. If you need something for school or work, buy a desktop and use the savings over a similarly powerful laptop to buy yourself a netbook to use on the go.

~Havrrics Jul 8, 2012

Got it, thanks.

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