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diablo III on rMBP?

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marcolino

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my question is as i heard that diablo III is rMBP ready:
will it run smooth with maxed out settings on a rMBP and retina resolution?
i hope there are some rMBP owners playing diablo III on their machines so they can answer my question...
and what about getting a blutooth keyboard with it and conecting it to my hd-tv for diablo III gaming, will this work well?
 
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marcolino said:
my question is as i heard that diablo III is rMBP ready:
will it run smooth with maxed out settings on a rMBP and retina resolution?
i hope there are some rMBP owners playing diablo III on their machines so they can answer my question...
and what about getting a blutooth keyboard with it and conecting it to my hd-tv for diablo III gaming, will this work well?
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I have D3 and a regular MBP so I can't answer your first question but I can answer the other two.

Bluetooth keyboard will work and yes you can connect it to your HDTV.... but why? You bought the Retina MBP to have it dumbed down to 1920x1080?
 
marcolino said:
will it run smooth with maxed out settings on a rMBP and retina resolution?
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No. Of course not. If a 27" iMac with a 2GB Radeon 6970m struggles to maintain 30fps with max settings at 2560x1440, why on earth do you think the significantly less powerful GeForce 650m would be able to accomplish 30fps (minimum) it at an even higher resolution?

Geez.
 
NMF said:
No. Of course not. If a 27" iMac with a 2GB Radeon 6970m struggles to maintain 30fps with max settings at 2560x1440, why on earth do you think the significantly less powerful GeForce 650m would be able to accomplish 30fps (minimum) it at an even higher resolution?

Geez.
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Why would it have trouble? It's far beyond pathetic that a game that looks so old at launch would run so horribly, regardless of resolution. For what it is, I don't understand why it requires large resources.
 
Beat the game at 2880x1440 with all settings on high, but shadows OFF ,and v-sync on.

Blizzard's implementation of shadows brings any GPU to it's knees for something so miniscule.
 
Pyrophor2011 said:
For what it is, I don't understand why it requires large resources.
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...it doesn't? 2880x1800 is just a monstrous resolution, especially for a mobile GPU. The rMBP will smoke D3 at 1920x1080, along with just about any other game.

mattonthemoon said:
Beat the game at 2880x1440 with all settings on high, but shadows OFF ,and v-sync on.
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Good lord, I can't imagine playing D3 at 20fps...
 
2880x1800 is playable at high settings with shadows off and no AA. There'll be some slowdown in certain sections, but it's not game breaking. Blizzard said they're going to release a patch that will optimize the game for Retina graphics, but no one knows when it'll be released.
 
NMF said:
...it doesn't? 2880x1800 is just a monstrous resolution, especially for a mobile GPU. The rMBP will smoke D3 at 1920x1080, along with just about any other game.



Good lord, I can't imagine playing D3 at 20fps...
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Good lord, i couldn't imagine playing it at 1440x900...
 
this is so cunfusing.
currently i'm running it on a mid 2011 13 inch MBP base model and it runs really fine but it wont run smooth on a 2012 rMBP...?? wtf???
 
i have played diablo 3 on many machines

a PC with Crossfired 7970 cards, an iMac with the 6970m, and the rMBP.

It's all a question of choosing the correct resolution. For the rMBP, I found that 1680x1050 (which I believe it selects as its default) runs nice and smooth.

And to the poster who asked if it is that fun: yes, especially if you have a friend to play it with. My wife and I beat it on the normal mode and our marriage is stronger for it.

"Do you want to go out to a nice dinner tonight?" - me
"No, let's just play Diablo 3 and get pizza" - my wife
 
i tried it some minutes ago, in bootcamp you can have better performance.

in solo (infer act 1) at 2880x1800 with all high except shadows on low you get fps between 20 and 35, it is barely playable.

same settings on 1920x1200 it goes around 50fps! the quality is still very good

these results are without overclock
 
Naish84 said:
i tried it some minutes ago, in bootcamp you can have better performance.

in solo (infer act 1) at 2880x1800 with all high except shadows on low you get fps between 20 and 35, it is barely playable.

same settings on 1920x1200 it goes around 50fps! the quality is still very good

these results are without overclock
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turn shadows off.
 
I've been playing native resolution low and performance has been abysmal on the osx side. Every time there's a lot going on (on any difficulty above normal that's very frequent) the game studders.
 
I play max settings with max res and shadows on with no AA. Its still quite playable for me. I'll post up my fps tonight.
 
Vegasboricua702 said:
I play max settings with max res and shadows on with no AA. Its still quite playable for me. I'll post up my fps tonight.
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My observations as well. I'm not that far in (Skelton King), but to this point I'm playing totally maxed out (even with shadows... but no AA) and I haven't noticed ANY slow down.

There's a little tearing in some parts and V-sync does make it unplayable.
 
It's fine, I left everything on at 1920, I can play perfectly.

Only thing is that the fans are going crazy and the small ledge on between the keyboard and the screen gets so hot you can fry an egg on there! If your OK with that; just install; it's a great game!
 
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