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Trouble Running Diablo 2 resurrected on Windows 10 Home
Dell Latitude 5580 (laptop) Intel Core i7-7820HQ 16GB DDR4 Nvidia Gforce 940MX 512GB SSD Windows 10 Home
Surprisingly, I am having trouble running Diablo 2 Resurrected with pretty much the lowest graphic details and I believe that this has to do with Nvidia Gforce 940MX being too "weak" for the task.
I understand that these days, nearly 2022, I could purchase an external GPU.
Should any external GPU help me to run Diablo 2 with medium or high graphics settings smoothly (around 60 frame per second)?
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How sad. I remember playing Diablo 2 as a wee lad, I think my computer at the time was a Celeron with an S3 Savage video card with 8 MB of memory. And then we have this "remake", probably with bloatware frameworks stacked on bloatware frameworks... God only knows where the horsepower is going.
I found a benchmark for this game: https://en.gamegpu.com/rpg/role-playing/diablo-ii-resurrected-test-gpu-cpu It claims that 8 GB (literally 1000 times more than the one I had, sigh) RTX 2080 Super gets about 150 FPS.
Comparing benchmarks for these I see that generally the 2080 gets 10x the FPS that 940MX does. Therefore, I would expect about 15 FPS in D2.
Diablo 2 was a masterpiece of 2D sprite graphics. Fundamentally, its requirements on video hardware are very modest. The reason it runs so slow is low quality of code from developers of the remake. It's unlikely that fiddling with the graphics settings will get you far, unless you're lucky and discover a performance bug affecting only a specific configuration. I've seen such cases on Linux with Wine, where for example changing just shadows from "medium" to "high" would cut the FPS from 60 to 15, because the game was using some DirectX API that is poorly implemented in Wine. Your case might be similar, but perhaps it's your nVidia driver that's crappy. You can't do anything about it. nVidia is too busy making bank from the AI people and crypto miners to care about lowly consumer gamers such as yourself.
You mention it's a laptop. Those like to overheat. Sometimes controlling the temperature can help, so you can try a stand for your laptop. But that's not going to double your FPS or anything, it might at best give you a 10% boost.
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