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mac mini & diablo 3
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That is a pretty bold and general statement. Whether the Minis with the integrated Intel GPU's may not be able to run it and I suspect they probably can at least at low settings, I'm sure the ones with dedicated GPU's will at least at medium settings. Blizzard games are very scalable and will run on a wide variety of hardware specs.
These links are a nice read on the subject:
http://us.battle.net/support/en/article/diablo-iii-system-requirements
http://us.battle.net/support/en/article/video-card-support-for-diablo-iii
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/4254455471
Someone on the forums there says this:
If you want more proof there is this:
http://kotaku.com/5842300/this-is-diablo-iii-running-on-my-macbook-air-without-breaking-a-sweat
That is an MBA though. But that's a similar intel gpu to the mini one. So you should be ok.
http://us.battle.net/support/en/article/diablo-iii-system-requirements
http://us.battle.net/support/en/article/video-card-support-for-diablo-iii
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/4254455471
Someone on the forums there says this:
If you want more proof there is this:
http://kotaku.com/5842300/this-is-diablo-iii-running-on-my-macbook-air-without-breaking-a-sweat
That is an MBA though. But that's a similar intel gpu to the mini one. So you should be ok.
It will work fine on low/medium settings. In some screens you MAY get some lag with many enemies on the screen, etc. But I have tested the Beta with the same graphics system and it is very playable and even looks decent at those settings.
On nicer systems it is downright beautiful.
The beta is not the absolute judge of the massive battles, but it is within the specs for the game.
On nicer systems it is downright beautiful.
The beta is not the absolute judge of the massive battles, but it is within the specs for the game.
Beta
Did the beta on a mac mini '11 (i5 but with 8g ram).
When I played on high settings it was laggy and slow. I reset to low/medium settings and it performed fine and still looked pretty amazing.
One day I would like to upgrade to something faster, but for now it will do.
-4tom¡c
Did the beta on a mac mini '11 (i5 but with 8g ram).
When I played on high settings it was laggy and slow. I reset to low/medium settings and it performed fine and still looked pretty amazing.
One day I would like to upgrade to something faster, but for now it will do.
-4tom¡c
I played it on the one in my signature which is a 2011 dual core i7 with 8GB of main RAM and the AMD Radeon HD 6630 dedicated GPU with 256MB of VRAM. Even on that I had to set it to medium/low options to get a decent playable frame rate of around 30. I can't remember the actual resolution but it was the wide screen one I think three below the highest. I wish that Mini had at least 512MB of VRAM which I think would most likely allow me to play on high settings. At the moment the Mini is my only option as I don't care for the iMac's built in display for practical reasons and Mac Pros are overkill for my needs.
That's probably because even though the CPU is a quad core the GPU is an integrated one that uses shared memory. The GPU is going to be the bottleneck there. You really need to have a sparate GPU with dedicated VRAM at least 256MB but preferably 512MB or more.
Good to know. I couldn't run X-Chat while I was playing the beta and thought it was my dual-core CPU i5.
yes it works fine
Hi,
I own the mac mini 2.5mhz 4gig ram and it works fine at least the beta version. 1920x1200 resolution.
peace
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Hi,
I own the mac mini 2.5mhz 4gig ram and it works fine at least the beta version. 1920x1200 resolution. no lag!
peace
Hi,
I own the mac mini 2.5mhz 4gig ram and it works fine at least the beta version. 1920x1200 resolution.
peace
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Hi,
I own the mac mini 2.5mhz 4gig ram and it works fine at least the beta version. 1920x1200 resolution. no lag!
peace
I would think looking at the system requirements would have answered the question. 
My computer squeaked by on the low requirements and it played fine on the lowest settings. I got a little lag (although I can't tell if it's from the servers) and the graphics aren't as detailed as on the high setting.
My computer squeaked by on the low requirements and it played fine on the lowest settings. I got a little lag (although I can't tell if it's from the servers) and the graphics aren't as detailed as on the high setting.