Diablo III Resolution on Series X|S to be set at 4k/1080p in Tuesday's Season 26 Patch

[LucasTaves]

@KageMaru

This update is indeed weird when the One S and One X versions already ran at 1080p and 4K respectively. Maybe they disabled DRS but that wouldn’t make much sense since both systems should have hit the target resolution just about all the time.

For SX I remember there was a bug, it was a game (perhaps the only one?) where SX would run the one profile, and not the 1x one.

But then SS would have been 1080p already.

But searching back at the issue, it seems that it was indeed 1080p on both SS and SX, but it was reported incorrectly as 900p by some outlets because they assumed that was the xbone resolution. So I guess Blizzard is just making it clear that even SS is running now at 1080p.

But still weird that they had to make the game SX/SS aware in order to fix it, instead of just running 1x/one S profiles through BC

Edit: Checked out and it’s not gen9 aware, so the patch must have just solved the issue that prevented the 1x profile to be selected.

[LucasTaves]

@SheepDip

Yeah I’m still confused about what this “update” actually is. It’s not something new but more of a bug fix that just enables the Series X to run the enhanced version it should have been running this whole time. … Right?

Yep, the official response from Ms was that there was a bug in the game and due to that SX would run the 1s profile. Blizzard said it was a platform bug on the Ms side, but it seems it was indeed on theirs since this patch fixed it.

[KageMaru]

@LucasTaves

… For SX I remember there was a bug, it was a game (perhaps the only one?) where SX would run the one profile, and not the 1x one. But then SS would have been 1080p already. But searching back at the issue, it seems that it was indeed 1080p on both SS and SX, but it was reported incorrectly as 900p by some outlets because they assumed that was the xbone resolution. So I guess Blizzard is just making it clear that even SS is running now at 1080p. But still weird that they had to make the game SX/SS aware in order to fix it, instead of just running 1x/one S profiles through BC Edit: Checked out and it’s not gen9 aware, so the patch must have just solved the issue that prevented the 1x profile to be selected.

Ahhh OK that makes more sense. Thanks for the additional info!

[FacelessSamurai]

@LucasTaves

… For SX I remember there was a bug, it was a game (perhaps the only one?) where SX would run the one profile, and not the 1x one. But then SS would have been 1080p already. But searching back at the issue, it seems that it was indeed 1080p on both SS and SX, but it was reported incorrectly as 900p by some outlets because they assumed that was the xbone resolution. So I guess Blizzard is just making it clear that even SS is running now at 1080p. But still weird that they had to make the game SX/SS aware in order to fix it, instead of just running 1x/one S profiles through BC Edit: Checked out and it’s not gen9 aware, so the patch must have just solved the issue that prevented the 1x profile to be selected.

900p was indeed the original resolution the game was supposed to launch at/launched at I believe (Day 1 patch happened or something like that for 1080p), same with other games like the original Destiny if you remember as it was like that during its beta (900p). But then that was early in the Xbox One’s lifecycle and it all happened when MS ditched Kinect from the console’s packaging and also dropped the requirement for it on the console, freeing up ressources and I remember MS then working with devs to make sure some games were able to hit 1080p just like on PS4, and I’m pretty certain Diablo 3 was one of those games.

So while the initial intent a long time ago was indeed 900p (explaining the confusion maybe), the game has been 1080p even on the original Xbox One since like forever so it’s weird that they’d need to mention it or that some outlets would have that information wrong. Wonder if they could have created a 1440p profile for Series S though?

[TeamAndromeda]

@FacelessSamurai

…h other games like the original Destiny if you remember as it was like that during its beta (900p). But then that was early in the Xbox One’s lifecycle and it all happened when MS ditched Kinect from the console’s packaging and also dropped the requirement for it on the console, freeing up ressources and I remember MS then working with devs to make sure some games were able to hit 1080p just like on PS4, and I’m pretty certain Diablo 3 was one of those games. So while the initial intent a long time ago was indeed 900p (explaining the confusion maybe), the game has been 1080p even on the original Xbox One since like forever so it’s weird that they’d need to mention it or that some outlets would have that information wrong. Wonder if they could have created a 1440p profile for Series S though?

Great info, love the Avtar btw. Jet Set Radio was awesome.

[LucasTaves]

@FacelessSamurai

…h other games like the original Destiny if you remember as it was like that during its beta (900p). But then that was early in the Xbox One’s lifecycle and it all happened when MS ditched Kinect from the console’s packaging and also dropped the requirement for it on the console, freeing up ressources and I remember MS then working with devs to make sure some games were able to hit 1080p just like on PS4, and I’m pretty certain Diablo 3 was one of those games. So while the initial intent a long time ago was indeed 900p (explaining the confusion maybe), the game has been 1080p even on the original Xbox One since like forever so it’s weird that they’d need to mention it or that some outlets would have that information wrong. Wonder if they could have created a 1440p profile for Series S though?

Problem with such and old title is that there are likely loads of bugfixes in the OS and SDK of xbox that happened since then, and to explicitly support SX it would require compiling the game under a new SDK and that can cause issues (wouldn’t doubt that being the reason this bug appeared for example, because that’s basically the only launch window game that got updated with 1x support).