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Steam Name: Whiskeyjack

Location: UK

Exp: Up to hard level bots. No pub games as of yet.

Favourite Hero: Lion or Centaur Warrunner

Role: Happy to play support and watch my carry grow into a hero like a proud father.

I'm on most evenings.

I'd like to win matches but I'm more about having fun and I need to team with people who are of a similar mindset, so drop me a line if you fit it and let's bring the ruckus together.

Steam Name: devilb0y

Location: UK

Experiece: Beginner (can beat Medium bots consistently)

Favourite Hero: Jakiro, Centaur Warrunner & Shadow Shaman

I'd definitely be up for this. I've played to the point where I can always beat Medium Bots but none of my friends play and I'm intimidated by the prospect of jumping into a public game!

@stryker1121: Yeah, the first installment was pretty good but WCW vs nWo: Revenge was probably one of the best wrestling games ever for my money.

@mordukai: God, that's older than the stuff I used to watch. I just remember thinking he had a badass moustache as a teenager watching him during his last run with WWF

@mordukai: You bet your ass it is.

You officially qualify to the elite group of individuals who actually recognise that picture. Congratulations.

So I just watched the hype video for WWE and the weirdest thing happened: I felt a twinge of interest in purchasing a wrestling game for the fist time since Day of Reckoning 2 on the Gamecube.

As someone who has been a fan of wrestling his whole life I used to lap up every game that came out, starting with Royal Rumble on the SNES and including every Yukes game on the N64 (those games were absolutely amazing). But when the games started going in the EA direction of an annualised 'sport sim' style franchise I found it left a bitter taste in the mouth and stopped buying them. I don't want 'realism' from a wrestling game, I want the colour; violence and foolishness that only wrestling can do.

So my question to those of you who are still playing these games is this: is it worth getting back into them? If I don't want a competitive sports game, but a way to enjoy throwing people through cages and tables will this still scratch that itch? Or is it just UFC 2012 with some cheesy storylines thrown in?

My biggest fear is that the fun wrestling games of old have died out and been replaced by a cross-breed of a hardcore sports sim and an MMA game. Hopefully someone will tell me that this isn't the case.

Cheers folks,

Dev

Gave in. Diablo you addictive, seductive beauty. I CAN'T QUIT YOU.

Battletag: Devilb0y#2562

Region: Europe (UK)

Class: Wizard (Not that serious about class at the moment, am more looking for cool people to speak at while making it patently obvious I don't know what I'm doing)

@Stete said:

PROTIP: Besides dropping all the settings to low in game as well as the low FX checkbox, go to the NVIDIA control panel>3D Settings>Manage 3D Settings>Program Settings. Add the Diablo III exe and set Texture Filter Quality to High Performance. That gave a decent performance boost when I installed it on my girlfriend's laptop which is not that different from yours.

Also I would highly recommend getting an external cooler for your laptop. Just to be on the safe side.

I've actually been considering this as my laptop has a tendancy to overheat. Any recommendations on where to start with a cooler? Not really aware of the market as such.

Is it worth adjusting the NVIDIA settings for anything else? I assume by doing that I'm just diverting memory on the graphics card specifically towards the Diablo 3 process, so would it be worth doing that whenever I want to play a game?

Cheers for the advice.

@GunslingerPanda: Go ahead, more or less done here.

Aw man, you guys have no idea how happy you've made me!

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go kill some shit.

Good day sirs!

Alright folks,

I'll keep this short and sweet. Loved Diablo and Diablo 2 but I haven't bought 3 yet as I'm not convinced the laptop I current have can run it. I've checked the minimum requirements but being fairly bad with the hardware side of computers I'm not sure if what they're asking for is better than what I have (processor in particular). I'll post my specs below and I'd be massively grateful if someone could let me know whether there's any chance I can get it to run (even on low settings, I'm happy to make that compromise).

SPECS:

Model: Aspire 5739G

Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T6600 2.20ghz

Memory: 4 GB

Graphics: GeForce GT 240M (2760 memory)

Not sure what else you might need but if I've missed something let me know.

Many thanks to anyone who can help.

Dev.