Diablo 3 - System Requirements

[Ultimate Empire]

The POSSIBLE system requirements for D3 are still up for discussion. When Blizzard lets us know more, it will be posted here.

Current Speculations:

#1: It is assumed that, as with all Blizzards recent games, that D3 will be Mac compatible.

#2: It is possible that if Blizzard uses the Warcraft/WoW engine or something similar, then the requirements will be fairly low. We can only assume then that the game would come out sooner than later, if they use an existing engine. In which case expect:

The system requirements for World of Warcraft:

PC:
Processor: 800MHz or higher CPU.
RAM: 256Mb or more.
Video: GeForce 2 or better
Hard Drive Space: 3Gb or more available.
DirectX 9.0 or above.

Mac:
Operating System: MacOS X 10.3 (Panther) or better.
Processor:1.0GHz or higher G4 or G5.
RAM: 512Mb or higher, DDR RAM recommended.
Video: ATI or NVIDIA video hardware with 64Mb VRAM or more.
Hard Drive Space: 3Gb or more available.



#3: If they spend alot of time on a new engine, and the Release date turns out to be mid 2008 or later, then it can be expected that they'll use the latest technology:

PC:
Operating System: Windows Vista (DX10)
Processor: 2.4GHz or higher CPU.
RAM: 1Gb or more.
Video: PCI-E ATI or NVIDIA video with Shader Version 3.0 Support
Hard Drive Space: 4-8GB
DirectX 10.

Mac:
Operating System: MacOS X 10.3 (Panther) or better.
Processor:2.0GHz or higher.
RAM: 1Gb or higher, DDR RAM recommended.
Video: ATI or NVIDIA video with Shader Version 3.0 Support
Hard Drive Space: 4-8 GB
---??How will DirectX10 games be ported to Mac??---



Current Concerns

- If the game is DirectX 10 only, will it be able to run on Mac?



If you have anything to add (comments or speculation) post here and we'll update it.

[x42bn6]

I doubt they will use DirectX 10, because that would make it hard to port over to a Mac. I think DirectX 9 is OK. Which would mean it probably wouldn't need Windows Vista.*

[SouLess]

Why is this thread stickied?

[Ultimate Empire]

Due to repetitive threads as I recall...

[Saint]

i hope they dont make the game a ultra godly engine because i want this game bad, but if i had to upgrade my pc, im at a stage were i gotta upgrade it all, power supply, motherboard, video card etc. sooo i really dont feel like spending 400 bucks to upgrade for d3. i hope its wow engine, or a lil above. but not hardcore.

[Raizeen]

jesus christ this is just stupid as hell to make this and sticky for a game that hasent been announced whatsoever yet lol all i can say is lol and knowing blizzard theyl use a ****ty engine on purpouse so that everyone can play and get as much money as possible before people notice how much it sucks i refuse from now on to play mmos that arent free with ****ty quality so its hellgate then age of conan also this game wont be out till about 6 years if they actauly started right now so anyhone who still has a ****ty comp who can barely run anything good wont be able to do anything

[sk8 or die]

Heh For you Pc kids Yes, You forgot to add in that they are having rumors, it will be coming out for Xbox 360 and Ps3.

[tofo-9115]

Originally Posted by sk8 or die

Heh For you Pc kids Yes, You forgot to add in that they are having rumors, it will be coming out for Xbox 360 and Ps3.

Ewwww

[XGhozt]

I need a new video card..

[T3h Sorrow]

alot of noobs seem to be sneaking into the forums..... or are they cheeze's children? Anyways.

I think it will be a 1gb ram instead, isn't WoW 512MB?

[RiP_Dime]

I know this is an old thread, but now that its been announced and theres gameplay footage out now, anyone have any speculations at to what engine this is? I'm dying to know what its gonna take to run this game.

[Wing Zero]

its Havok

[Ntrik_]

Originally Posted by Wing Zero

its Havok

so what does that exatctly mean?

[DwightSchrute]

Originally Posted by Ntrik_

so what does that exatctly mean?

ragdoll, physics that are used in just about every halfway decent game, etc.

[RiP_Dime]

Well it won't require DirectX10 they have stated. Kind of a shame.. I was kinda hoping to have something to force me to upgrade my system. D3 would.

[x42bn6]

A good decision, though. Considering everyone is happy with their XP systems, I don't see much point (heck, even Halo barely makes use of it).

I suspect the requirements of this will run along the lines of Vista plus Aero, so the current lower-end Intel Core 2 Extreme processor of today (QX6800), with 256Mb video card and 1Gb of RAM, 2Gb recommended. Can't really see much real need for a massively-powerful system although I know it's just an alpha.*

[DaRkRaIn]

Time to buy a new computer.

[Renzokuken]

I just upgraded, should be able to run this at maximum.