m11x and diablo 3 question

This is the game i'm going to play once it is out hopefully by the end of 2011. I'm planning on buying my 2nd m11x r1 (not r2, no vga, lesser battery, more heat, prefer manual switching than auto optimus)

I was wondering if the gt 335m can run it comfortably when it is out in good resolution


Thanks

 

also interested, I'm gonna say i think it'll handle it, if some people are handling sc3 on ultra with the r1 i think it's safe to say that graphic settings according the r1 will be fine. or at least it better b/c it's gonna be torchlight 1&2 and borderlands till d3 comes out. then i'm gonna go into solitude for a very long time

 

The game is in alpha stages you couldn't possibly know how the end result of the game will perform. So far I've heard it's the same engine as Starcraft 2 which runs off DirectX 9 I believe, so If you can run starcraft 2 right now you should be good, and they should be releasing a beta for diablo 3 sometime early 2011 just like what happen last year with starcraft 2.

 

If it's like Starcraft 2 and requires a lot of processing power you'll only be hurting your chances by getting the r1.

 

I understand what you mean but adding $400-500 on top of my current configuration (which is $689 shipped with $50 coupon/$200 discount) on an r2just to get the i7/ (I don't consider optimus to be a pro, since i'd rather have free manual control) is not worth it in my opinion, and for that price i would rather add $200 more and just get me a real non ulv icore cpu with a Radeon 5870 or a gtx 460 on an m15x or the new G73JW

 

Knowing Blizzard, it will probably release the game in mid 2012, so you got a whole year to save for the future m11x revisions. lol

 

Damn I know right! Diablo 3 better be good like Diablo 2 was, I remember playing D2 back in 1999 until 2003, i figured Diablo 3 was going to come out around 2006-2007 but damn it's almost 2011 lolz

 

Meh, I only paid $130 more than that for the specs in my sig... I figured if we're limited to a selection of 4 processors that are already way behind the curve it only makes sense to get the fastest one out of those 4.

If I wanted more battery life and less power it wouldn't have made sense to be looking at the m11x in the first place.

 

You are just saying that because you already have r2 . But trust me I know a lot of people here that sold their r2 to rebuy r1 again because of the benchmark reviews and experience in both having r1 and r2 at the same time for massive testing, some of the things were (more heat, manual>optimus, lesser battery life, and the performance gains isn't worth the upgrade)


"As an external observer considering whether to get R1 over R2, I've firmly decided on getting an R1 simply because of Optimus and its effects on battery life. Knowing Nvidia's track record, they aren't likely to fix Optimus simply because they won't. Having had an N10 before, I prefer having manual switch of graphics because it's pain free, and I'm hopefully more intelligent than my computer in making decisions as to when my graphics should turn on. If I were to go on a full battery stretch, I would quite simply use the integrated rather than jumping about between integrated and dedicated.

Because Optimus is so incompetent in switching graphics at appropriate times (doesn't turn on when it needs to, or turns on when you don't need it), it's obviously going to have a detrimental effect on battery life. I don't know if I'm crazy, but I'm probably one of the only few that like having total control over my computer. "