Diablo III Forum

I'm in the process of converting to a Linux-only setup at home. In the past, I've dual-booted with Windows in order to play D3 because I found D3 under CX to sometimes get choppy in full groups.

My current system:
Ubuntu 15.04 64-bit
MSI Geforce GTX 560 Ti 448 750Mhz 1280MB
Intel Core i5 3570k
16GB DDR3 ram
OCZ Vertex 4 128GB SSD

I plan on upgrading my SSD to a larger size, but I was wondering about my video card. If I upgraded my card to something a little more recent like the 750/950/960 , will I notice a big performance increase with a game like D3, or am I bottlenecked by the compatibility layer of CX/Wine when it comes to performance?

How can I test my current FPS in D3, is there some sort of command to display it on screen like with TF2?

To display FPS in Diablo 3 you press Ctrl +R.

I have a GTX 660 and when a lot of stuff happens on screen, FPS tends to plummet seriously. Wine still has performance issues with this game. Also, don't replace the 560 ti with a 750 or 950. They're not even in the same league. The 960 is not a future proof GPU. Newer games will want to use more than 2GB VRAM. If you can, get a GTX 970 or wait for the new generation of GPUs in 2016. I'm trying to "limp" along until then myself :)

Thanks for the suggestion, I had no idea how the generations of Nvidia cards compared with each other. I guess I'll hold out until a new generation comes along. At least I have a new SSD on the way.

Corey Quilliam wrote:

At least I have a new SSD on the way.

SSDs are a huge improvement. I just wish I used less space so I could have both my OS and data drives be SSDs. Currently I am going thru 5TB of storage (nearly), so SSDs are not viable there. But as an OS drive -- dear God, its nuts how different system updates behave and application load times.

Silviu Cojocaru wrote:

To display FPS in Diablo 3 you press Ctrl +R.

I have a GTX 660 and when a lot of stuff happens on screen, FPS
tends to plummet seriously. Wine still has performance issues with
this game. Also, don't replace the 560 ti with a 750 or 950. They're
not even in the same league. The 960 is not a future proof GPU.
Newer games will want to use more than 2GB VRAM. If you can, get a
GTX 970 or wait for the new generation of GPUs in 2016. I'm trying
to "limp" along until then myself :)

No real issues myself in D3 here. Now that wine likes loading it up without some massive magic voodoo ritual it runs quite nicely.

For the record I started off on an i7-960 + 12GB Ram and am now on an i5-4460 + 32GB ram. Each use my older yet stable and fast enough 560ti 2Gb Nvidia. This game is quite playable at all times. Perhaps there is a GPU setting or whatnot that I do not have enabled/disabled and you do that is changing the performance. I had used the guides from back at launch to get it going and frankly, other than reverting from the custom launcher, no other changes have been made (well OS updates -- RHEL 6 -> 7 ... but I don't think that matters).

That said, I do agree with the holding off. The price/performance curve isn't there yet for the current gen cards. Barely double the performance for $700 is not my idea of a deal. I recall the days of triple performance every two years at the $200 price point. Not saying that we are going to see that ever again, but to go from that to anything else just isnt cost effective.

I purchased a 500GB ssd, and that seems quite big enough to hold all my active games/software. For storage purposes, I have a server with 8TB free that I have mounted, so that allows me plenty of space.