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New 13" MBP on Starcraft 2 and Diablo3

Here's a picture of the settings that I use on my 13" Macbook Pro with a 9400m.

I went against the computer and maxed out my units, just to test it out. The lowest I got was 20fps when I let my army go free inside of the enemies base, other than that it was quite smooth (30-50fps). I'm sure it will dip a lot when there is a massive 200vs200 battle going on, but I can always lower the settings some more.

http://s98.photobucket.com/albums/l259/StopSign24/?action=view&current=SC22010-04-1418-13-15-91.jpg
 
StopSign24 said:
Here's a picture of the settings that I use on my 13" Macbook Pro with a 9400m.

I went against the computer and maxed out my units, just to test it out. The lowest I got was 20fps when I let my army go free inside of the enemies base, other than that it was quite smooth (30-50fps). I'm sure it will dip a lot when there is a massive 200vs200 battle going on, but I can always lower the settings some more.

http://s98.photobucket.com/albums/l259/StopSign24/?action=view&current=SC22010-04-1418-13-15-91.jpg
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It is not looking very low, it is inbetween low - medium but I cannot say that it is completely low.

Yeah, if you can play the game with these settings, you will definitely play it with completely medium setting on 320M.

The problem is, this is just beta version !!!

We do not know full version will be less or more demanding.
 
Playing the beta on the 9600M GT with everything maxed out, it runs fine when there's not a lot on the screen but once the action goes, you can definitely feel decrease in performance/FPS when scrolling. With an integrated GPU, you're most likely going to be using low/medium in-game settings.
 
I'm suprised people think so highly of SC2's graphics engine, its already outdated in my opinion, the 320m should have no problem at medium settings at native rez, since you can almost do the same with the 9400m.
 
Blizzard games have always been relatively easy on the GPU, in comparison to other games. I imagine you'll be able to play SC2 without to many issues, although it's too early to tell for D3.
 
post results when u get them please :D

im guessing it'll run smoothly on mid settings and laggy on high?
 
georgeadbb said:
I'm looking to get the new 13" and I'm also a huge fan of starcraft.:)
I really wish it can run SC2 at medium performance.
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keep dreaming..

the 330M 512mb is a crap card for those games if you want to run in a descent level..
 
Finished setting up SC2. When trying to load the game, the screen flashes several times and then the game just crashes. Don't really know what the problem is. Sorry guys will have to wait on this one.
 
rwdebes said:
keep dreaming..

the 330M 512mb is a crap card for those games if you want to run in a descent level..
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The 330M is a crap card. However it will run SC2 well.

Already on my 8600M GT it runs very smoothly at medium, however it's still quite slow on high. The 330M is significantly better so I figure it should be able to run SC2 on high.
 
Hey again all,

So it looks like there's some video driver issues with SC2. I expect that once the game is released, a new video driver will come out to deal with the flash/crash issue when loading the game. Even so, I managed to get into the game and play after a few tries. I tried taking a screen shot of my settings, but no luck. To get straight to the point, SC2 plays VERY well on medium settings. You'll have to play with the different options yourself, but if you look at StopSign24's post below and use that as a guide, SC2 will run great. When set on "high" or "ultra," lag was noticeable right when the games began.
Here's a post about the flash/crash issue:

http://www.blizzblues.com/us/starcraft-2-flash-and-crash-at-launch-24261278396.html


StopSign24 said:
Here's a picture of the settings that I use on my 13" Macbook Pro with a 9400m.

I went against the computer and maxed out my units, just to test it out. The lowest I got was 20fps when I let my army go free inside of the enemies base, other than that it was quite smooth (30-50fps). I'm sure it will dip a lot when there is a massive 200vs200 battle going on, but I can always lower the settings some more.

http://s98.photobucket.com/albums/l259/StopSign24/?action=view&current=SC22010-04-1418-13-15-91.jpg
Click to expand...
 
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