Comp nearly meets rec. specs, but have to run low graphics

Kind of frustrating, if I even run at Medium graphics level, things get slow on busy maps and I keep getting the popup saying I need to turn down my graphics settings.

If I run on low, everything's fine, but it all looks kind of cartoony.

Intel Dual Core 2.1ghz
3g RAM
NVidea GeForce 8600M GT
Vista

 

well im not so much of a spec man but vista is a bunch of bullcrap ****ted out from a retarded baby turded marauder retarded child of a zergling just so you know

 

That doesn't exactly help him Matte.

Sorry I don't know the answer wraith.

 

That 8600M GT is just a little bit better than minimum specs. Remember, mobile GPU are usually slower than their desktop counterparts. Even then, the 8800 GT in the recommended specifications is quite a bit faster than the desktop 8600 GT.

 

with mass units on my old cp pentrium 4 3.0D it lagged and ran slow, with few units it ran fine, I have since upgraded to a core2duo 2.93 and it runs very well on 2v2 but on 4v4 it did lag a bit, not sure if it was due to other ppls spes though

 

I suppose it is a Core2Duo notebook. 2.1 GHz should be enough, the 8600M is also OK. MEdium graphics level sound reasonable.

Can you check if your laptop runs at energy saving mode? It is necessary to run the computer in full performance mode to play recent games.

 

with mass units i found that it was my cpu that was bottlnecking, i would get like 5 fps when a ton of units were engaging in a battle, i tried turning my settings down and it persisted, so i upgraded my cpu and i no long has those problems unless its 4v4 massive units, but this video card has done very good in terms of price and performance, I got it for $79.99

Intel Core2 Duo 2.93Ghz E7500 Wolfdale
XFX nForce 610i Motherboard
OCZ 2GB DDR2 PC-6400
Power Color Radeon HD4670

 

There's some kind of bug in Starcraft 2 that's hurting a lot of people's performance on decent computers. Hopefully there will be a patch eventually.