Starcraft 2 System Requirements

All computers become obsolete if you don't upgrade them. What comps these days have that they didn't use to have back in 1995-1999 is extensive upgrade support. My old computer from 1998 (the one I had when I first played Starcraft and Diablo, mind you) had a chassi that was incompatible with a new motherboard... :-X

 

Never fond of upgrading my PC, for me it's one of the best way to waste my money ! :-\ I rather buy a whole new PC after a while. Since normally the bandwidth and speed of the MOBO and processor keep on increasing, it's a bad idea to plug in a powerful graphic card (let say) in the future to the current system where you can't utilise the full potential of the graphic card. It's like changing a car with a better engine, leaving the suspension, chasis untouched. It will definitely go faster, but won't be as fast comparing those with full package.

 

When a lot of people 'upgrade' their computer, they upgrade everything almost, so it's like getting a new computer anyway. Except you don't waste money on things like case, monitor, ram, power supply (if you've a good one), etc. I love upgrading my computer, but yeah, it involves upgrading almost all the parts. Prices are dropping like crazy now!

 

You're right. What I wanna point out is, when you upgrade "almost" everything, it's like you are buying a brand new machine. Hardware nowdays is getting more and more power hungry, power supply and cooling have become the major concerns. I was shocked when I have seen 1000W power supply and the top end Nvidia 8800GTX consumes 100++ watt alone !!

 

It consumes 100watts? That's more than my fridge!

 

It's true

http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTM0MSwxNSwsaGVudGh1c2lhc3Q=

For your info, ATI HD 2900XT is the current top end ATI cards.

 

When I read CMP I thought of the CMP Game Group.

I think it is way too early to guess at the games minimum specs. We don't know if the game will take 6 months or 3 years from now, so the differences in requirements can vary by like 800%.

 

I believe a standard 128-256 Mb graphics card would be able to handle SC2. If you observe carefully the graphics, the lightning effect, texture detail etc etc are not even on par with let say company of heroes (unit level detail). However, I prefer SC2 graphics to company of heroes. So i assume if your computer can handle the latest RPG (company of heroes, CNC3), it should be able to handle SC2 flawlessly. Hopefully.

 

Except we don't know what they were demoing. Were they showing us the stable low-end version of the game, or the pretty high-end version? How do we know they have included all of the basic graphical features that they will eventually include in the game when it hasn't even hit alpha? For all we know they could be spending another 4 years on the game, and by then the graphics shown would be unacceptable and far below the eventual minimum specs.

 

Hmm, I don't really understand what do you mean by low-end version of the game. Logical thinking, would a game developer presents something with low - med quality?? I guess no. I think 99% what they showed us is at the highest quality, to impress the crowd. However, I do think those Blizzard is smart enough to realize that, producing a game that could catter medium - high end users would bring them more profit than producing a power hungry game.

Anyway, I do hope they will re-model the siege tank...

 

Yeah, the tank looks too much like a building.

 

for starcraft 2. YES! ;D

 

Not sure about all my comp info but the basics...

224MB RAM
1.19GHz AMD Duron (tm) processor
37GB HDD 90% of which is taken up by my mums photo's :bad:

 

with 1.5 gig of RAM
2 ghz core2 duo
7900gt geforce
and Blizzards great reputation for performance on any computer...

i would say it will be able to run fine, even if i have to drop a couple of settings...

i just wonder how many GBs of my disk its going to use up, as a permament resident on my internal HD....

But IF it does run slowly, then I will buy a new one.... and for me to shell out that kinda money to play one game may sound mad... but it's SC people! Unless it's really bad. WHICH ISN'T GOING TO HAPPEN.

 

Blizzard has a way of making games run smoothly and at the highest speed on computers that meet the bare minimum. Play command and conquer and you will appreciate it.

In CnC, some people can handle the game, and others can't do it as fast because the engine is soo terrible. This causes lag in almost every game.

In short, I think that the graphics on this game arent going to be that demanding, and if your computer can handle wow, it can probably handle starcraft II. Blizzard has a huge fanbase that is currently playing wow, so it would not be a bad idea to aim the graphical demands on a similar level.

 

A high-quality showing might still be buggy, might crash in the middle of the big moment.
- demo might crash or glitch, media swarms all over it, really bad press.
A low-quality showing would be less impressive, would gain more complaints about graphical quality.
- demo probably won't crash or glitch, but the press complains about "outdated graphics."
A middle-quality showing would have both problems, but less of each.
- some chance of a crash or glitch, a number of people will complain about the graphics.

We do not know which of these the demo shown was: it might have been the high-end one, and they were just lucky it didn't crash, it might have been the low end one, and graphical complaints are completely unfounded, or it might have been a middle-one, in which case, graphical complaints become more relevant.

But none of this takes into account the eventual level of complexity, because, like I said, we have no idea if it will be eight months or three years until they release the game. We have no idea what the eventual minimum specs will be.

 

will you need a new computer to play starcraft 2?

2 words.

hell yeah!

 

I think the only upgrade necessary for my system is the memory, i used to play Doom 3 at my system and it worked fine, I'm sure SC2 wouldn't be that graphic extensive

 

I won't need a new computer, but a new graphics card. My good computer's graphics card is built into the motherboard and I can't find a driver for it, so I need to get a new graphics card and then everything will be all fine and dandy.

 

Well with 100gb free space, 2 gb ram and the latest DirectX and Video Card I recon im set for the next year or two.