Hi guys! I have a really weird situation. I don’t want to buy PlayStation or Xbox for playing Diablo IV. Why? Let’s begin a little story.
So, I have a laptop with AMD 6800U CPU, 16GB RAM and AMD 680M videocard. Yes, it’s integrated one. But! It’s enough to play Civ VI, Witcher 3, Apex Legends (moreless comfortable for my casual fun) and even Hogwarts Legacy (yes, on low settings but it works). I’m silent about popular games like WoW, Overwatch, LoL XD
What about Diablo IV? Minimum requirements: AMD R9 280 2GB VRAM. Is it true?
NO.
First of all, at the start menu it eats 2GB VRAM. Okay, maybe in game it would be the same?
NO.
Second, 4 GB VRAM in any case on start. I’ve tried different packs of settings: 720p30fps, 720p60fps, 1080p30fps, 1080p50fps (close to 50, but i’m not sure). Low or closer to medium textures - doesn’t matter. Percentage of rendering doesn’t matter (50 or 100) - it has fast drop to 3 GB and fast jump back to 4. Resolution doesn’t matter. Usage of GPU power is about 20-25%. Temperature is about 55-57C. It’s not about overheating. WTF?
Third, VRAM usage has been increasing during the game, of course. It starts to use RAM resources more and more. Is it okay? I’m not sure.
P. S. Please, don’t tell me about driver updates or smth like that. I have latest version of AMD driver, Windows 11 with latest updates. I tried to use in game AMD Fidelity bla-bla-bla also - no results. I tried to change my monitor resolution to 720p - zero effect. I don’t need high resolution pack for my configuration - its useless. I also tried different energy management settings in AMD and Windows enviroments.
Blizzard, integrated videocards are also usable for games. Even for Diablo IV.