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Recommended StarCraft II Specifications
Right now I have very little in the way of knowledge regarding specific CPU or RAM demands beyond the standard gaming generalisations we are all used to. StarCraft II‘s multithreaded abilities are not being emphasised thus I wouldn’t expect something like a quad core processor to yield any tangible benefits, but that could easily change. I’ll keep looking for more info to scratch from Blizzard interviews and post updates when I locate something, but historically factors like physical memory and CPU demand hands on experience with different hardware configurations to tell how much they effect the performance makeup, something which wasn’t an option at the WWI event.
While I can’t give any solid recommendations that’ll stick, Blizzard are known to try and make their games accessible to a wide range of computers. If someone wanted to purchase a computer in advance it is highly likely the following components would be suited to playing the game in a higher gear than the minimums I was able to either take an educated guess or work out from released information.
StarCraftWire.net Recommended Specs:
As for Athlon X2 / Core 2 Duo; either one should do pretty fine, if it’s overwhelming these, we’re all in trouble. When it comes to RAM, as cheap as it is right now, and with the hungry demands of Vista, it is the sweet spot for gaming and most gaming computers are shipping with 2 GB now. The Geforce 9600 GT is a very good buy, quite cheap these days, but if lower is necessary, the Geforce 8600 GT should do fine, as will the Radeon HD 3850.
I estimate that the game will probably take up about seven Gigabytes of Hard Disk space, but this is an unreliable figure as they are still ripping the game apart, removing and adding things with every revision we hear about, and they haven’t placed the single player campaigns in yet.
While it is highly likely these components will quench the thirst of most modern games, it is possible that some of the more wild proposed special effects, particularly the ones they are thinking about doing in the DirectX 10 mode exclusively, may possibly go beyond the capacity of some of these components. Until the bleeding edge of the game has been defined and experienced much more closely, it is extremely difficult to make such recommendations for high quality play. Hopefully when the Beta starts I’ll be able to rack up some days with the game and make something quite a bit more substantial.
If you have any questions about technical difficulties, or hardware specifications, feel free to visit me at the StarCraft Technical Support Forum!
Looks like I might be able to continue the legacy and play it on my Laptop :D
I am not sure though since a 8600 nvidia card in a laptop seems to be totally different for as far as performance goes. * Keeps his hopes up!
Looks like I might be able to continue the legacy and play it on my Laptop :D
I am not sure though since a 8600 nvidia card in a laptop seems to be totally different for as far as performance goes. * Keeps his hopes up!
Yeah, I was a bit taken aback at first, but it might actually work on my poos laptop that is starting to get old.. We’ll see when the beta is out. Wouldn’t like to use the job pc to game =P
I’d have to bring a sleeping bag to work!
[QUOTE=Strobe;4163]now the problime im waiting for. although i have a 1.8 core 2 duo, will it keep up?
I don’t see why it wouldn’t. As long as everything else in your machine meets the min/recommended specs, you should be just dandy
[QUOTE=Strobe;4163]now the problime im waiting for. although i have a 1.8 core 2 duo, will it keep up?
I don’t see why it wouldn’t. As long as everything else in your machine meets the min/recommended specs, you should be just dandy
Just gonna say, if you have tech specific questions, feel free to ask Kalos in the tech boards =) He is the maester.
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I didn’t know Havok was used by Blizzard before this. Quite interesting!