Starcraft 2 on DELL Inspiron 530 *HELP*

starcraft

As for your alt tabbing issues, I've got a buddy with a freakn' RAID array for loading SC2 and it still takes a bit of time to alt+tab. Its a new game, and even beasty machines are bound to take awhile when alt+tabbing (especially if your in a mission. Its not so bad if your in the menu's or between single player campaign missions). Hopefully the game will become more stable and better at things like this as it gets patched and time moves on.
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YEAH... patience that i don't have.... LMFAO!

well, ive also kinda had a remorse in going with an ATi HD5830. since i can still return it. I think i'm gonna go with the nvidia GTX 470 instead...

i really hope things get patched away ASAP...

I tried updating my drivers and still no success...

 

well, i decided to pull the trigger and buy a GTX 470. I know it tends toget hot and all that but the performance is awesome. I has eliminated more of the lag/choppiness issues with the game and im pretty happy with it and won't be considering buying another GPU.

the FPS used to go 0-1 when game got intense but now if it does get choppy it goes to 15fpsbut shoots back up immediately.

 

Depending on what you qualify as "massive" loading times ( I'm running an OC'd i7 processor, and did have 2x 470s in SLI, but one of them was freaking out, and is going to visit it's family for repairs, and I think it takes ~5 seconds to tab back in ) try making sure that your desktop and in game resolutions are the same, that's always helped me in the past with tabbing speed, that and the full screen windowed mode, but I wouldn't recommend that as much if you are having performance issues.

 

yeah, i adjusted the resolution sizes to be the same on windows and sc2. Still tends to take a little longer than 5 seconds. but before i had the zotac GTX 470 installed and was running a HD5770 it would take forever. I mean, it must've been anywhere from 15 seconds to 20 seconds, and by then i was booted out of the game.

So far still happy performance-wise with the GTX 470. It's beena great card so far. Hopefully i won't have to upgrade it again. Don't really feel like forking out the 500 bucks for a GTX 480. lmfao.

 

Starcraft

Ok, now to the issues at hand...
First issue that bothers me is when i ALT+TAB out from the game to windows and back. When I ALT+TAB back into starcraft, it takes an ENORMOUS time to load the game back up... I think even for a DELL unit, I should have more than enough RAM and VIDEO RAM to support it to load quickly... Does anyone else have this issue and have you found a cure for it? The currently resolution i am running for the game at the moment is 1920x1080 being ran into a Sony KDL40S4100. the game settings are on ULTRA and when I play a 3v3 co-op game it runs smooth as butter in the beginning but once there's lots of units on screen it gets choppy....

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I had both of the exact same issues
Alt Tabbing Fixed - 2gb is not enough(30 sec multi tasking load time) 4gb should be enough as it takes 2-8 sec to multi task now in game.
Mass units in game fixed - I had a Pentium 4D 3.0 and upgraded to core 2 duo 2.9, my cpu is now able to handle 4v4 mass units!!! On my old cpu during a 2v2 mass units I saw -0001 fps furing massive battle

I wanted to play on 1920x1080 res on medium settings but got poor fps, I upgraded my vc and am running on ultra at 1920x1080 now!

So from my experimentation and experience the following are most dependant on eachother.
Alt-Tab - Ram Dependant
Mass units - Cpu Dependant
Resolution and Details - Video Card dependant

 

WOW... thanks for the info archangelclk...!

kinda hurt my eyes since it's in red lol but all good!

I think the slight choppiness i get now is cause of my CPU. im still in the works of getting an E8500 to replace my crappy E4400.

 

Well, i've been doing a lot of questioning and searching.

But i need someone help on a CPU upgrade question... Since most places online that sell CPU's don't have a return policy on CPU's i need to make sure that i can use this CPU before i go out an spend the 280.00 bucks for it...

I have to make a double post just to show specs of my dell unit but if someone can help me as to advising me if i can upgrade from a core2duo e4400 to a core2quad q9550... i'd much appreciate it...

 

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Q9550 isn't worth it. Most expensive LGA-775 CPU I'd recommend if upgrading is the Core 2 Duo E8400. Your chipset should support 45nm processors no problem. You just need to check if your motherboard supports it and whether it would require a BIOS update.

 

My MOBO is a dell model 0RY007. what confuses the heck outta me is that i check other forums and this MOBO is set to comply with core2duo CPUs only or some ish. That's why I was looking into the E8500's.

So you're saying safest bet is to go C2D E8400?

 

There seem to be several versions of the Inspiron 530. Some support quads, some don't. I suspect that's because some of the motherboards have cut-down VRM's and are unable to supply the power necessary for quad.

The E8400 costs $170 and runs at 3.0GHz. The E8500 costs $195 and runs at 3.16GHz. Frankly, I don't think paying 15% more for a 5% speed increase is a good deal but hey, it's your call.

 

HAHA... so true... with the economy the way it is i think i should go with the E8400.

Thanks for the help bud!

 

Same sort of problem except havn't got it running

I am also having problems with starcraft 2 on dell 530S
It's a vista

this is the dx diag for system http://i402.photobucket.com/albums/pp105/bob1012112/dxdiagsystem.jpg

and dx diag for visuals http://i402.photobucket.com/albums/pp105/bob1012112/dxdiagdisplay.jpg


and when i try running it it says this http://i402.photobucket.com/albums/pp105/bob1012112/errorsc2.jpg


been trying for a few days to get it working
don't know what's wrong.

 

Have you tried updating to the latest Catalyst drivers? I think the latest non-beta version is 10.7. Your GPU isn't all that good, though, so might want to keep the settings on low.

 

I don't know what that means

I'm not that good with computers lol.
How do I upgrade my catalyst driver?

and whats GPU?

Thanks

 

Download and install. Just get the Full Catalyst Software Suite for your operating system.
http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx

Graphics Processing Unit, otherwise referred to as the video card/graphics card.

 

Thank you so much

THANKS IT WORKS NOWW

you have helped me so muchh

I would hug you if i could haha