What kind of graphics card do you think SC2 will need to run smoothly?

Seing as how someone started a topic about RAM requirements, Ill start one about graphic cards... Im speaking DDR here, obviously. By the way, state the card you currently have.

 

well for now now i dont have an idead still..

 

I said 256
I have Radeon X1600PRO 512MB GDDR2

 

Probably a 256 car will be recomended. I don't think SC2 will be that heavy on the graphics requirements. The CPU and Ram requirements will probably fairly high though. I say this just from experience with other RTS's.

 

Im not an expert, but i think that the cards are able to determine the quality of graphics and the effects the computer can support (e: pixel shading), aside from that its up to the ram and the processor to support the amount of on-screen crap and make things go smoothly.

Maybe someone with a more trustworthy knowledge about graphics can throw some light on this?

 

graphics cards help smoothness. especially if you are trying to put on settings that your graphics cards can't handle.

 

hmm paragon I think you should re-read your comment. I think you meant ram?

 

I think paragon meant either the CPU or onboard graphics.

 

I have 2 8800 GTXs, SLIed. Graphic cards are one of the biggest factors in gameplay performance, but that doesn't mean you could ignore things like RAM or processing. Even if you had one of those Quadro graphics cards, they wouldn't help much if the rest of your computer was 3 years old.

 

The game doesn't strike me as requiring that much computing power, so a bottlenecked system could still run the game smoothly.

 

Indeed, but there are other games I'd like to play, namely Crysis.

 

i hope it would be set to level just like in warcraft 3 for players to be able to play them more....
reaching 500 is even unfriendly for most users i think?? anyway they said something about that on blizzcon..