Starcraft II Graphics Requirements

[MyDesktopBroke]

This

Hope it isn't old.

 

[rbarris]

This

Hope it isn't old.

It would be premature to draw any conclusions as to which GPU cards or systems will actually be supported (based on the comments in the SIGGRAPH paper).

 

[Padraic]

I followed your link and then a couple others and found the actual requirements here.

Starcraft 2 requires pixel shader 2 support, according to this paragraph:

Compatible Pixel Shader 2.0 and above cards start with the Geforce FX series from Nvidia, the Radeon 9500 and above from ATI/AMD, and the GMA 900 onboard graphics from Intel. These are pretty much the bottom grade possible to get StarCraft running with Blizzard's technical demands. These aren't recommendations to rush out and buy for your machine as most likely these cards would run awfully, but they'd get the game going on a bare level, and if you have worse than that... Unlucky

any mac with a GMA 950 or better will be able to play it. Am I reading this right?

 

[BlackMax]

Starcraft 2 requires pixel shader 2 support, according to this paragraph:
any mac with a GMA 950 or better will be able to play it. Am I reading this right?

Any Mac with a GMA 950 would *probably* run it, but I'm guessing not very well. 🙁

 

[lamadude]

I followed your link and then a couple others and found the actual requirements here.

Starcraft 2 requires pixel shader 2 support, according to this paragraph:
any mac with a GMA 950 or better will be able to play it. Am I reading this right?

I don't think it will work, the GMA 950 "supports" pixel shader 2, but in reality this means that the game will run (as in: it won't refuse to boot the game) but the frame rate will be unplayable. I'm pretty sure you'll need more than a GMA 950 to run this game.

 

[Tom B.]

Even if I can only get a constant 10 fps with my X3100 I'll be very happy. Anything more than that will be amazing.

 

[rbarris]

I will reiterate that *no* official system requirements have been posted yet for the game.

 

[nnfaris5]

I followed your link and then a couple others and found the actual requirements here.

Starcraft 2 requires pixel shader 2 support, according to this paragraph:
any mac with a GMA 950 or better will be able to play it. Am I reading this right?

hopefully my old mac to be able to play it cuz i've been waiting to play SCII since i was born ^___________^

 

[JackAxe]

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Amazing, you type quite well for a toddler. 🙂

Blizzard games are always behind on graphics, because they put so much more into the important parts, like gameplay.

Anyways, if it's anything like WC3, it will run great on loads of different comps.

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