7300 GT and Starcraft 2 - anyone playing yet?

[Sean Dempsey]

Anyone using a 7300GT to play Starcraft 2? Or am I totally screwed without getting a new video card off ebay?

 

[Sean Dempsey]

lol the answer is no - crashed every time I try to start the game.

 

[Ravich]

Bootcamp?

 

[cured.not.dried]

from what i've read SC2 runs way better on nvidia cards than their supposed ATI counterparts, however, the minimum system requirements for mac are 8600m GT or better

you might be successful if you run it in windoze, since the windoze min is a 6600 GT

 

[CaptainChunk]

From everything I've heard/read from the beta phase, SC2 plays better in Windows. It probably has to do with DirectX (Windows) vs. OpenGL (Mac).

I'll be getting my copy next week and since I have a dual-boot machine, I'll be able to report my findings. I'm thinking my 2.8 8-core with flashed 8800 GTS 512 will fair pretty well.

 

[bobpensik]

I was playing all day today with my 2600 XT and it was running at Medium settings on my 20" display and worked just fine

I am hoping Apple will be offering a stand alone 5870 upgrade option soon so I can really max out the settings

 

[Mackilroy]

As the PC only requires a 6600 GT, I'm going to try it under Windows on my dad's Mac Pro tomorrow.

 

[benpatient]

mine crashes on the screen where it asks you to create a new character for the game for the first time, after typing in your battle.net login info.

does it every time.

mac pro, 7300gt.

it would probably work in boot camp, but i don't have bootcamp on this machine. I do have it at home, but my home machine has a 2600xt in it so it runs fine anyway.

figures.

 

[Sean Dempsey]

mine crashes on the screen where it asks you to create a new character for the game for the first time, after typing in your battle.net login info.

does it every time.

mac pro, 7300gt.

it would probably work in boot camp, but i don't have bootcamp on this machine. I do have it at home, but my home machine has a 2600xt in it so it runs fine anyway.

figures.

Same story here.