**OFFICIAL** Diablo 3 Thread

[Rage187]

Ths always online was a bad idea.

 

[Fallengod]

Some advice for gpu temps in this game.

Make sure you did not uncheck the max foreground and background boxes in video settings.

I had unchecked the boxes and was seeing my temps fly to 63C or so just sitting at the login screen and was trying to figure out why my fan was so loud. I have a 120hz monitor so I set the max foreground to 130(+10 over your refresh rate, for some it limits it to 10 below the foreground value set) and background to like 5. This helped my temps quite a bit and now my fan isnt crazy loud.

I saw some people complaining their video cards were running crazy hot and they had unchecked those boxes so..

 

[destrekor]

wait what did they do with passwords? you only needed 1 for SC2 and WoW

That much I know.

1) I was discussing the physical and mobile authenticator options - which is essentially two-factor account protection.

2) They prevent the application from permanently remembering a password. Thus, I have to open up my browser, login to my password management system, dig up my battle.net account info, copy the password, then paste that into Diablo 3.

Sure, I could memorize my password - but that will be awhile considering it is not used that often, and I've enjoyed the ability to not memory any passwords save for my master password. All my passwords are very complex and often take many uses before I even have a semblance of memorizing them, and I'll forget them if I am able to return to using the password management system properly.


Oh and awesome.... diablo 3 (or battle.net) is down. Yay.
Dammit, if it wasn't an enjoyable game, I'd swear off blizzard. They are the most ass-backwards game company. Sure, this game offers great party-based multiplayer support, but since it requires online connectivity, even if I want to solo play on a predominantly single-player game, it's only possible if they have their shit together and have the systems online.

In the rare event they produce another game that actually grabs my attention, remind me to avoid it until well after the launch period. Holy shit this is the most butchered launch I think I've seen in awhile.
I should have expected this: the open beta was ugly, and with the game launching less than a month after it, I should not have expected they would have fixed all the issues that popped up during the "stress test."

Did they underestimate this game by THAT much, even with all inclinations (and marketing) suggesting otherwise?
Retards, the lot of 'em.


/rantafterlongday

 

[ponyo]

I started tonight and played for 30 minutes before the servers shutdown.
I guess I'll try again tomorrow night.

Game is pretty ugly on my Radeon HD 5450. About similar in graphics to Diablo 2. I need to install it on my other computer with the HD 5670.

 

[destrekor]

Some advice for gpu temps in this game.

Make sure you did not uncheck the max foreground and background boxes in video settings.

I had unchecked the boxes and was seeing my temps fly to 63C or so just sitting at the login screen and was trying to figure out why my fan was so loud. I have a 120hz monitor so I set the max foreground to 130(+10 over your refresh rate, for some reason it limits it 10 below of what you set) and background to like 5. This helped my temps quite a bit and now my fan isnt crazy loud.

Something I noticed just now: max foreground at 60fps, game limited at 50fps. lol really?

I also think that was screwing with my SLI setup. I'd test in game to see if max settings can now be properly enabled (with AO), like should be possible for my 560 Ti (2GB) SLI setup, but... yeah.

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

why the fuck do the servers keep going down?!?!!?

 

[Fallengod]

Something I noticed just now: max foreground at 60fps, game limited at 50fps. lol really?

I also think that was screwing with my SLI setup. I'd test in game to see if max settings can now be properly enabled (with AO), like should be possible for my 560 Ti (2GB) SLI setup, but... yeah.

Yeah thats what I was trying to say, you gotta set the foreground to +10 of what you want. It limits it to -10 of the value set. So, for a 120hz monitor you want it to set 130. For a 60hz monitor, you want it set to 70.

 

[Nintendesert]

I started tonight and played for 30 minutes before the servers shutdown.
I guess I'll try again tomorrow night.

Game is pretty ugly on my Radeon HD 5450. About similar in graphics to Diablo 2. I need to install it on my other computer with the HD 5670.

It doesn't get any prettier.



I have to say I like the monk when I can play though. It's a pretty fun class. I pretend I'm David Carradine from Kung Fu... without the rope around my neck.

 

[magomago]

I want to buy the game, but I'm not paying 60 bucks until it'll work.

but as of right now, US and EU are both down

 

[Fallengod]

You know whats funny about this game, they actually stole content from many other games heh.

Did you see the butcher in D3? They completely ripped that off Dota/HoN. I saw that and was surprised...

 

[destrekor]

wait, what? i've maxed everything out on my old ass gtx 260 - everything on HIGH at 1920x1080 with AA and it is smooth as butter...are there better quality options that I haven't enabled somewhere?

No. I think there are simply major issues with how this game addresses various configurations and driver tweaks.
my Nvidia Inspector profile appears to be setup the way others suggest for proper SLI support, but there are issues. I think by sliding max foreground FPS to 200 (perhaps I will try disabling it as well), it might be fixed (considering 59fps limit = actual 50fps limit on my end, which in of itself is odd)... but I can't test properly at the moment.

If that indeed fixes it, I'll just enforce a 60fps cap in Inspector to get around Blizzard's clumsy approach to things.

 

[Adrenaline]

I managed to get to Hell. Level 51 now. I found two legendaries on NM, a chest and shoulders.

My Barbarian is moving SLOWLY through Hell. Everything has such high HP.

Btw, when you hit NM, grab a Templar to help you, they heal. You need a meat shield. If you see creatures with Vampire and Frozen / Fire Chains / Molten, it is best to avoid them.

 

[astartz]

Servers are back up. Add me to the players list, Bird3321#1657

 

[MetalMat]

Game is pretty easy for me so far, on act 2 with a witch doctor and am destroying. However I have heard that nightmare is a huge leap in challenge over normal, people say you gotta hit up the auction house before tackling it.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

I guess Im lucky in that every time I want to play the servers are up lol. I have my WD at 18 which I like and a Wizard at 10 which so far is meh.

Edit. Just logged in right now just fine.

 

[KeithTalent]

Servers are not up for me.

KT

 

[nyker96]

since we can't log on, I got a question for you all. how do you revive an ally who got killed?

 

[Dominato3r]

It's not a BF3 or skyrim but I think the gameplay makes the art-style endearing. Graphics are fine IMO.

 

[KeithTalent]

Ok, up now, but of course I am getting an error 3000 code. /sigh

KT

 

[KeithTalent]

Fuck this game, I'm going to play something on Steam. Sorry for wasting the guest pass Imp, but I don't have time for this shit.

KT

 

[Tweak155]

I have to have my slot fan blowing at high on my Radeon 4850 for it not to overheat and shutdown my whole PC. If I simply upgrade the video card to the latest/greatest < $200, will I still be seeing this sort of problem?

I know it's only the video card since if the slot fan is at low, this always happens, and hasn't happened when the fan is all the way up. All my video settings are already at low. Just like in WoW and other games like Need For Speed... can't have it higher or it'll just shutdown. Max temp even with the slot fan on high has been 98C (I know). Right now at 93C since I'm not in-game. Not O/C'd.

I hate Blizzard:

I'm actually expected to memorize my complicated, keyboard-mash-like random password?
I have it saved in a password management system, and I have to login to that in order to get my account password, so that I can copy and paste it into the login prompt.

So ridiculous. All those authentication options still require the regular password to be used too, in addition to the second one-time password, yes?

Ugh.

Also: lack of official SLI/CF support is beyond ridiculous. Here's to hoping I can figure out how to fix my system (even with SLI Compatibility Bits in Nvidia Inspector, it's still screwed up).
One 560 Ti 2GB isn't cutting it for maxed out graphics. SLI could easily handle this game, but noo... bastards.

I only had a chance to play the beta but on my 6870 it ran smooth (<= $150). A 560TI is a good bit faster. Don't think you should have any issue.

 

[destrekor]

Was online and playing, and I think I've got my fix.

All settings max, with AA. 1080p
AO High Quality (in Inspector)
58fps limit (just in case 60fps causes input lag, which I dislike )
disabled in-game foreground FPS limit

I haven't tested with massive swarms of enemies or anything yet (very early), but so far, rock solid at the limit. And much, much better looking.
And with the limiter, my cards are actually begging for much (thus far). Pretty sure GPU utilization was quite low, but that's not an error - just not enough to really tax anything.

Again, swarms and swarms and onscreen chaos might cause me to back down the AO, but for some reason I'm not expected that to be the case.

Not the most beautiful game, but with AO, and the engine in general, it's definitely enjoyable to look at.
It definitely isn't the type of game you could really do much with and keep it a Diablo game at heart, in terms of an insane graphical engine.

So far, it's what I expected and more: Diablo, brought into a fairly modern world.

[my previous comments are not redacted by this statement Blizzard can ef off. I'm sure server outages will plague us quite often for a bit]

 

[PrayForDeath]

You know whats funny about this game, they actually stole content from many other games heh.

Did you see the butcher in D3? They completely ripped that off Dota/HoN. I saw that and was surprised...

Uhh dota's butcher was stolen from Diablo 1.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

You guys know what I was doing in D2 for the two or so weeks that closed (maybe open too can't remember) multiplayer was running like crap? That's right... playing Ug my single player Barbarian...

 

[JPS35]

How is everyone finding the single player campaign to be? I am not interested in multiplayer, PvP, or any of that crap.