First post, by xjas
- Rank
- l33t
Hey all - what kind of performance do you guys get out of this game on this hardware?
I'm kinda disappointed with how D3 runs on my heavily-optimized machine. I get 30-45 FPS in empty hallways, but as soon as I'm fighting any group of 2+ enemies, it chugs hard down to 2-3 FPS. Completely unplayable. As soon as the enemies go away the FPS goes back up. That doesn't seem right.
My setup is a K6-2+ @ 577 (5.5x105), Asus P5A-B, 384MB PC133, Aureal Vortex 2, Voodoo3 3000 166MHz. The board is resistor modded for the 2+ and I've installed the ALI AGP driver 2.13 and spent a ton of time tweaking it. 3DMark results & SuperPi blow the previous K6-2/500 setup out of the water. I know it's running well. I'm running D3 in 512x384 and none of the detail options seem to make much difference - even with everything turned down it still chugs. Hell, Half Life and Unreal Tournament play way better.
I was running a K6-2/450 with a Voodoo Banshee when D3 was released in June 1999, and I played the crap out of it. My tolerance for low FPS was higher back then, but I doubt I would have had much fun if it was this bad. Even with the K6's IPC disadvantage against the P3, this would have been a mighty fast system for 1999.
Have I missed some magic setting that I'm supposed to turn on or off, or what?
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