Sunday, November 16, 2008

Diablo III Unleashed




Diablo III running on a new engine

  • Diablo III is powered by a new graphics engine that can display characters and hordes of monsters in lush

  • Fully 3D environments

  • Powerful special-effects systems and Havok-powered physics allow for realistic object dynamics and cloth simulation

  • Enable players to lay waste to the minions of the Burning Hells in spectacular ways.


What are the system requirements for Diablo III?

  • Still indefinite. Updates would be posted later.


Here are some Speculations for Diablo III

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??---





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