Diablo 4 Beta: “Real” system requirements should be (significantly) higher

That was probably too euphoric: At the beginning of March, PCGH reported on the manageable hardware requirements of Diablo 4, also in the context of the beta. But these have a good reason, as Blizzard now adds.

Low requirements due to low quality

So far the developer of Diablo 4 mentioned (buy now ) not what resolution or game details the requirements apply to. This elementary information has is now submitted. As usual, the minimum requirements only apply to 1080p “native” resolution, 720p “rendered” resolution, minimum graphics settings and 30 fps. Probably (almost nobody) wants to play with it. There are no further details for the recommended hardware so far. But now it is clear why ancient hardware is sufficient in some places. The recommendations only apply to 1080p, medium graphics settings and at least 60 fps. But if you play with a higher resolution, for example, or don’t want to accept any limitations in the game details, you will probably need much better hardware – especially in the graphics card category.

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As a reminder: The minimum requirement for the Diablo 4 Beta is a Core i5-2500K or an FX-8100, 8 GiB RAM and a GTX 660 or a Radeon R9 280. The recommendations are a little less prehistoric. Here Blizzard names a Core i5-4670K or a Ryzen 3 1300X, 16 GiB RAM and a Geforce GTX 970 or a Radeon RX 470. Blizzard warns that “there may still be performance drops” during the beta. If you are going beyond 1080p and medium details, a GTX 970 or RX 470 will hardly be enough.

The pre-download for the D4 pre-order beta is scheduled to start today at 5 p.m. The download should be around 45 GB. The game will be played from 17.3. 5 p.m. to 20.3. at 8 p.m. Next week there will be a repetition as an open beta.

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