Diablo IV PC Performance Review and Optimisation Guide
Diablo IV is easy to run on PC
Diablo VI is not the most graphically impressive game in existence, but it does look good when compared to other isometric RPGs of its type. On PC, Diablo IV runs incredibly well on modern hardware, so much so that we needed to move to olders graphics cards like AMD’s Radeon RX 480 8GB and Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 1060 to get this game to dip below 60 FPS in our Kyovashad benchmarking location.
While cutscenes are more demanding than our in-game test location, it is worth remembering that Diablo IV’s cutscenes are non-interactive, and that players who have lower-end hardware should probably enable Diablo IV’s graphical option that limits these scenes to 30 FPS. That’s what we would do for older GPUs like AMD’s Radeon RX 480 or Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 1060, which require some settings reductions to achieve a solid 60+ FPS experience in-game.
If you are using a modern graphics card that is RTX 2060 series or newer, you will be able to run Diablo IV at 1080p without any real issues at Ultra settings. For most of the GPUs that we have tested, average framerates of over 150 FPS are common, with DLSS and FSR 2 bringing framerates to even greater hights.
Regarding DLSS Frame Generation, we have noted that average framerates did decrease when DLSS Frame Generation was utilised with DLSS Super Resolution set to Balanced mode, at least when compared to DLSS Super Resolution in Balanced mode without Frame Generation. It is our belief that DLSS Frame Generation struggles when trying to render so many new frames, as Diablo IV’s framerates are already extremely high without adding DLSS Frame Generation into the mix.
