Starcraft 2

[jordan009]

can i do ultra/high?
AMD Athlon( II X2 245 (stock cooling)
motherboard-gigabye GA-MA785GMT-UD2H
video card-xfx radeon 5770
ram-4 gigs DDR3 1066
320gig WD cavier blue HD

windows Xp proffesinal

 

[Herr_Koos]

Depends on resolution, but you should be able to play with most settings turned up.

 

[jordan009]

resoultion ug i think default or 1280x1024

 

[Herr_Koos]

I found this article:

http://www.guru3d.com/article/starcraft-ii-wings-of-liberty-gpu-graphics-performance/

They test with very high-spec i7 CPU's, but it should give you a general idea.

 

[jordan009]

oh so i should still be able to do it on high or ultra with no AA or AF? whats your opinion?

 

[Herr_Koos]

Try and see; only way to tell. From the benchmarks, any PC built within the last 2-3 years with a discrete GPU will be able to run the game with decent framerates.

 

[jenkas]

I found this article:

http://www.guru3d.com/article/starcraft-ii-wings-of-liberty-gpu-graphics-performance/

They test with very high-spec i7 CPU's, but it should give you a general idea.

thank it will help me, i got an HD 4890 and i play at 1650 x 1050 or 1600 x 1200 and it's gonna be enought GPU.
Now just wait the 27/07/2010 (lol)

 

[jordan009]

lol yea i know well the 5770 is about equal to the 4890 so me nd u will be good

 

[jenkas]

starcraft 2 will be direct x 11?

 

[Herr_Koos]

starcraft 2 will be direct x 11?

No, it's DX9 only.

 

[Jack_Cookie]

Try and see; only way to tell. From the benchmarks, any PC built within the last 2-3 years with a discrete GPU will be able to run the game with decent framerates.

Been planning to get the GTX 460 for a while and this article really sells it for me. Thanks for the post, good read.

And just if you're curious, on my laptop running a NVidia Geforce Go 6100 (real piece of ...card) I still managed to run the Beta for SC II. It was really laggy at parts and it couldn't display certain units properly, but I could still play on the lowest settings. So it can definitely work on lower end cards, you just have to sacrifice the pretty effects if its REALLY low-end.

 

[Herr_Koos]

My pleasure!

 

[Renseru]

FYI

'Anyone else have StarCraft II try to melt their hardware? Blizzard admits that it's a known issue and has a fix for you.

Apparently, the game's menu screens aren't framerate-limited. This means that when there's nothing else going on, your graphics hardware renders the bejeezus out of those screens, causing nasty overheating problems. The fix is easy, requiring players to add the following lines to your "Documents\StarCraft II Beta\variables.txt" "Documents\StarCraft II\variables.txt" file (nice catch, commenter LegolElf):

frameratecapglue=30
frameratecap=60

Good to know. Personally I would have appreciated a heads-up before my video card fried, but maybe this can save someone else from the hassle I've been dealing with since yesterday afternoon.




http://gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2010/07/28/blizzard-confirms-starcraft-ii-overheating-bug.aspx