What do I need to upgrade to get Diablo 3 smooth?

Drake5

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My PC is quite old now and it hasn't been upgraded for a while.

Specs are

i3 3220
8GB DDR3 1600MHz
H61M-P25 Motherboard
GTX 560 Ti
500GB HDD
400W Corsair PSU

I've recently started using my PC for playing Diablo 3 again and on default settings (which is pretty much everything on max) when a lot of action is going on on screen my FPS will dip to the 20's/30's and it'll start to feel very choppy/laggy.

I initially had 4GB RAM but upgraded to 8GB which helped a bit. I've also recently bought an SSD to give it that extra boost.

What upgrade would have the biggest impact on performance?

Cheers
 
Heya. I've got a slightly higher specced PC than you do and at times it gets choppy as well (details in the signature + 8gb ram). I would assume it's mostly due to high amount of mobs you encounter and many physics objects flung about and breaking. In my limited knowledge that would be due to CPU itself. One reason to trust this theory is that I've upgraded my GPU from 550Ti to 770 and it hadn't improved much with lag spikes. It does not drop my FPS lower than ~40, but they are still there. Possibly poor coding on Blizzard's part a bit too.
 
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FuF said:
Heya. I've got a slightly higher specced PC than you do and at times it gets choppy as well (details in the signature + 8gb ram). I would assume it's mostly due to high amount of mobs you encounter and many physics objects flung about and breaking. In my limited knowledge that would be due to CPU itself. One reason to trust this theory is that I've upgraded my GPU from 550Ti to 770 and it hadn't improved much with lag spikes. It does not drop my FPS lower than ~40, but they are still there. Possibly poor coding on Blizzard's part a bit too.
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I sometimes get drops as low as 18-19FPS which is really frustrating but it sounds like upgrading the CPU isn't really going to solve anything either.

ExRayTed said:
The best way to improve Diablo 3 is to either install on a quick SSD drive or use the USB stick trick.
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I'm hoping it's slightly better when I install it on the SSD, if not the USB stick trick could be worth trying. Cheers for that mate. :)
 
Tom_D said:
I sometimes get drops as low as 18-19FPS which is really frustrating but it sounds like upgrading the CPU isn't really going to solve anything either.



I'm hoping it's slightly better when I install it on the SSD, if not the USB stick trick could be worth trying. Cheers for that mate. :)
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I used to play a lot and I had it installed on am mechanical drive. I used the USB stick and the difference was night and day
 
have you tried lowering the sound quality?

Diablo 3 has quite a lot of problems. i have a pretty med/high spec pc and it runs choppy. but on other more intensive games its smooth.

Later found out that by lowering the sound quality in the options its a lot smoother. might want to see if this ehlps 1st
 
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