As the SIGGRAPH event is over for this year, there are some quite interesting things that have been revealed through it. Of course the new cooperation between Blizzard and AMD originally seemed to be of some interest at first glance, but our tech guru Kalos has looked in to some of the papers that were published for the lectures, and has come to much more interesting conclusions.

The cooperation between AMD and Blizzard surely seems to be more than just a PR trick or getting free graphics cards for BlizzCon, as the documents Blizzard provided themselves hold new, exclusive information about StarCraft 2 system requirements. In this case “only” the requirements for graphics cards, but you will find out a lot more information from this when our friendly PC hardware specialist, Kalos analyses it all.

This is in line with information provided by Xordiah in QA session 13 that the game required Pixel Shader 2.0 support. My article last month, StarCraft 2 System Requirements, contained my analysis in which it became clear that in terms of the GeForce series, the FX line was the bottom grade. This appears to be complete confirmation, the graphical situation was as I expected. I appear to have been near dead on regarding ATI Radeon cards as well.

When asked how he manages to find all these nuggets, Kalos said:

If you’re wondering how I’m a techie and able to find things - Comb the desert!

Well, what are you waiting for, head over there and find out all the AMD exclusives!
StarCraft 2 Graphics Requirements Confirmed

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