Starcraft II is a Universal Binary

[Yotsuba]

According to System Profiler, Starcraft II is a Universal Binary. Wasn't the whole point of UBs to enable users of PPC systems to still have newer software and games? Since Starcraft II is a UB, why won't it run on a G5? Seems kind of odd to me. Blizzard should have just gotten rid of all PPC and not made it universal if they had no intention of supporting PPC.

 

[Jolly Jimmy]

"Universal Binary" can also mean that an app can run natively on 32 and 64 bit systems, with no PPC code included.

 

[datmr]

I doubt the graphics card in those G5s would be viable for SC2 anyway. The 7800 GT might *just* be viable in low res; I wouldn't bother with anything lower.

Not meaning to rag on your system, just honesty, I don't think it matters you can't run the binary.

 

[Cabbit]

I doubt the graphics card in those G5s would be viable for SC2 anyway. The 7800 GT might *just* be viable in low res; I wouldn't bother with anything lower.

Not meaning to rag on your system, just honesty, I don't think it matters you can't run the binary.

7800 GT is a lot faster than a 9400m which plays in low/med.

 

[Yotsuba]

Thank you for clarifying that for me Jolly Jimmy. I did not know that Universal Binaries were 32/64-bit. I always thought they meant PPC/Intel support.

 

[datmr]

7800 GT is poor by "gamer" standards (which is what I am) - it is a mainstream card from a few years back. It is not in the current benchmarking tables for gaming systems.

My spare PC for games has an 8800 GTX and that is junk - it cannot make 30 FPS in Dragon Age II at 1680x1050 i.e. it's useless for modern games. That has more power than a 7800 GT.

Some bench scores for older gen mainstream (non-gamer) cards, just to put into context

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/...date-2/3DMark06-v1.1.0-3DMark-Score,1567.html

Anyway my point was just that i don't think it matters that the binary doesn't run.

 

[Jolly Jimmy]

I did not know that Universal Binaries were 32/64-bit. I always thought they meant PPC/Intel support.

Older UB's were PPC/Intel, nowadays they're 32/64 bit. Confusing, but they are both referred to as Universal Binaries.

 

[AFPoster]

Diablo 2 is UB as well, but it wont run on my MacBook ('07) running 10.6.6

 

[brucem91]

just though I would let you know that a trial is available for SC2. I would try that just in case it works on your machine.

https://us.battle.net/account/sc2-demo.html