13 Tips To Speed Up Diablo 3, Decrease Latency And Increase FPS

1.Disable Peer-To-Peer

Open the Windows Explorer and go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Diablo III Beta then open the Diablo 3 launcher, click on Options

Then uncheck the option Enable Peer-to-Peer Transfer

 

2.Disable VSync

Within Diablo 3 go to  Options

Then uncheck the option Vertical Sync

3.Change Graphic Settings

Make sure to consider changing the textures quality, shadow quality, physics quality, FSAA Level

4.Change Sound Quality To Low

It may help to also lower the quality of your sound

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5.Get GameBooster from iobit.com

A great way to speed up Diablo 3 is to simply stop background services – whenever you play you can temporarily stop them using iObit’s GameBooster

6. Check Windows Tray

Got a lot of stuff in your tray? Not a good sign, close them

7. Latest Drivers?

Update graphic card drivers
NVidia might have improved their drivers for Diablo 3 by the time you read this, make sure to stay updated

8.Disable Windows Shadows And Effects For Best Performance

Although it’s probably not going to make THAT much of a difference, you may want to consider downloading this tweak

Download Toggle Tweak 

9.Stopping The Windows 7 Themes Service

Open the list of services by entering services.msc into the search bar and then scroll down to stop the Themes service

10.Disable Windows Services

Many services are not needed and consume valuable resources. Read our list of services that are safe to disable

11.Hardware Overclocking 

Do some research on this topic. If you are new to overclocking hardware consult some experts first or you might end up breaking your PC and you can not play Diablo 3 at all

12. Identify High Disk I/O Problems

Open the resource manager - and find all processes with possible high disk I/O – kill them

13.Defrag Drive Or Get A SSD

Defrag your hard drive  – If you want to speed up Diablo 3, but you have a slow hard drive it’s going to be difficult, especially if your hard drive is fragmented. If you can pick up a SSD to improve your performance. Make sure to read our tips on how to optimize a SSD
Got some more essential tips how to make Diablo 3 faster? Let us know what you did to speed up the game below!