Starcraft 2

[reacher]

Hi,
I am planing to switch my MBP 2019 to new MBA due to new keyboard and no touchbar.The only two games I play, are Starcraft 2 and Starcraft Remastered. Since Starcraft 2 do not benefits of multicore CPU will it be better to buy i3 model? I have read a lot about throttling and i5 is hotter than i3.

Has anyone any experience with new MBA and Starcraft?

 

[maflynn]

I don't know of any reason why an i3 would be advisable, over the i5. I'd say go for the i5, you can turn off turbo boost via a utility to help with the heat mitigation.

 

[RightMACatU]

Hi,
I am planing to switch my MBP 2019 to new MBA due to new keyboard and no touchbar.The only two games I play, are Starcraft 2 and Starcraft Remastered. Since Starcraft 2 do not benefits of multicore CPU will it be better to buy i3 model? I have read a lot about throttling and i5 is hotter than i3.

Has anyone any experience with new MBA and Starcraft?

Hi,
So did you do it? How's Starcraft2?
I have just replaced a 2017 MBP w. toolbar with an i5 16GB RAM MBA and I'm very disappointment with Starcraft2 performances. The smallest skirmish and the thing lags . Considering returning it for a MBP.
Thanks.

 

[Azrael9]

Hi,
I am planing to switch my MBP 2019 to new MBA due to new keyboard and no touchbar.The only two games I play, are Starcraft 2 and Starcraft Remastered. Since Starcraft 2 do not benefits of multicore CPU will it be better to buy i3 model? I have read a lot about throttling and i5 is hotter than i3.

Has anyone any experience with new MBA and Starcraft?

Well. On behalf of Voyageur...I downloaded SCII to test it for him.

25 gigs+.

The game freezes when I try to load a campaign or tutorial.

Anyone have any similar issues?

Latests Cat' Mac OS. Flagship iMac running 10 cores, 5700XT with 32 gigs of RAM and a pretty speedy SSD.

I'd like to run get it running so I can bench it.

If anyone can help in this matter. Please do.

Regards,

Azrael.

 

[reacher]

Well. On behalf of Voyageur...I downloaded SCII to test it for him.

25 gigs+.

The game freezes when I try to load a campaign or tutorial.

Anyone have any similar issues?

Latests Cat' Mac OS. Flagship iMac running 10 cores, 5700XT with 32 gigs of RAM and a pretty speedy SSD.

I'd like to run get it running so I can bench it.

If anyone can help in this matter. Please do.

Regards,

Azrael.

Thank you very much for checking.
I have never experience behavior like this. I found a solution online, but not checked it. It says that some files on disk are not properly installed. The solution is, unfortunately, to reinstall the game. But you have to be sure, while doing it to delete ~/Library/Application Support/Blizzard/StarCraft II" directory. Maybe you could just first delete only this folder and try to rerun game again. While starting game should recreate this directory with all files.

 

[pmiles]

Well. On behalf of Voyageur...I downloaded SCII to test it for him.

25 gigs+.

The game freezes when I try to load a campaign or tutorial.

Anyone have any similar issues?

Latests Cat' Mac OS. Flagship iMac running 10 cores, 5700XT with 32 gigs of RAM and a pretty speedy SSD.

I'd like to run get it running so I can bench it.

If anyone can help in this matter. Please do.

Regards,

Azrael.

I thought the OP wanted to know how it would perform on a MacBook Air versus an MacBook Pro?

 

[reacher]

I thought the OP wanted to know how it would perform on a MacBook Air versus an MacBook Pro?

That's right, but I am curious anyway how it performs on any Mac. Never played anything on Mac. I am not a gamer, but from "old times" Starcraft is something I am playing with friends, so just want to know.

I've got (from work) new 13'Pro with 10th gen intel so I if anyone is curious I code bench it, but anyway, I am not using work machine for my personal use and still not get my personal one. I think I will wait till apple silicon.

 

[Voyageur]

That's right, but I am curious anyway how it performs on any Mac. Never played anything on Mac. I am not a gamer, but from "old times" Starcraft is something I am playing with friends, so just want to know.

I've got (from work) new 13'Pro with 10th gen intel so I if anyone is curious I code bench it, but anyway, I am not using work machine for my personal use and still not get my personal one. I think I will wait till apple silicon.

I've been actively playing Starcraft 2 on Mac since 2014 (iMac 27 Late 2013) and it worked just fine. Even at full 2.5K resolution. But then with some game updates and graphic improvements the fps slowed down. Meanwhile as far as I know, SC2 works well on newer Macs.

In theory, on the new 2020 iMac SC2 should work fine even at 5K resolution, but unfortunately now, thanks to Azrael's tests, we see that there are some optimization problems or something like that.

If on the topic, then according to all the reviews that I have seen recently, you can comfortably play on a MacBook only at Pro 16" with 5600m graphics. MacBook Air will get very hot and slow down, unless you put very weak settings in the game.