system requirements, what do you use?

RoyalMarine

When the forum's were open, there was a lot of discussions about system requirements, and what worked well.

Just thought i would make a thread here to see what everyone runs SC2 on!

myself:
xps m1710 laptop
dual core 2.2ghz 4gb ddr2 ram, 7950gtx.

works perfectly, if all settings are on regular / standard

desktop:
core i3 @ 3.4ghz
4gb ddr3
hd5770 @ standard

can set almost everything to max. 23" hd screen 1920 x 1080 res.
Runs perfectly, but my temps soar to 75* on the gpu, and 50* on the cpu, so i probably need better cooling there.

my brother plays it on a similiar laptop to mine, and its running just above average.

very happy with the performance.

So what do you all use?

String

i7 920 @ 2.8
6gb ddr3
9800 gtx+

Have no problems with everything on max

RoyalMarine

id say that i7 packs a right punch.

how does your 9800gtx+ hold up during video play?

i can really hear the fan going into overdrive on mine when there are those user made scene's.

DirkVoodoo

E6600 @ 2.4 GHz
2GB DDR2
512MB 8800GT

No longer cutting edge but it ran the beta without any hiccups, I think it was at 1680x1050 on a 20" Viewsonic.

String

RoyalMarineComm wrote: »

id say that i7 packs a right punch.

how does your 9800gtx+ hold up during video play?

i can really hear the fan going into overdrive on mine when there are those user made scene's.

Its fine I dont notice any fps drop or slowdown etc etc. I was going to invest in a dx11 card but I cant justify it at the moment. The temp of my gpu and cpu are nearly always stable as I have a case with a load of fans Once I got used to the noise it was worth it

B00MSTICK

Vaio FZ11S

T7100 (1.8ghz C2D)
8600M GT
2GB RAM

Ran the beta fine on low/medium settings, I'll have to invest in a proper desktop soon enough though.

Sephiroth_dude

GTX 260
4 gigs ram
Q9330 Quad core @2.50GHz

Hope it'll run smoothly

RealistSpy

HD4870
5GB DDR3
Q9450 @3.10GHz

Gonzovision

core i7 920 @ 3.6ghz
4gb ddr3
hd4890 Vapour-X

seraphimvc

Athlon X2 6000+
2gb ddr2 ram
8800GS

probably the lowest spec on boards

running smooth at 1400x900

Retr0gamer

I think I can beat that:

Athlon 64 3500+ @ 2.2Ghz
1Gb Ram DDR2
Geforce 7800 GT

Downloading a 7hour guest pass to see if it will run but looking at 8% complete and 30 hours to finish downloading

seraphimvc

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I think I can beat that:

Athlon 64 3500+ @ 2.2Ghz
1Gb Ram DDR2
Geforce 7800 GT

Downloading a 7hour guest pass to see if it will run but looking at 8% complete and 30 hours to finish downloading

lol Retro, you can try this site:http://systemrequirementslab.com/cyri

also, i have a 10 days guest pass can give u if ya need!

Dcully

Q6600 stock speed
8 gig DDR
ati HD 4870 1 gig

plays smooth as silk everything at ultra 1920x1080

Retr0gamer

Well that link says my PC will just about manage it. Just hope I can have the detail levels up to a decent setting. Nothing worse than playing a PC game with N64 textures. I might take you up on the 10 day trial offer but by the time this game actually downloads I'll have enough to buy the thing.

titan18

The game said my graphics card isn't supported, it's an ATI Radeon HD 3650, yet, the game works absolutely perfectly on medium settings

Kiith

E6600, Ati 4890 1gb, 4gb ram, 64 bit Windows 7. Everything on Ultra @ 1680x1050.

Xios

My set up, 2.8ghz quad core Intel, 8gb DDR2 RAM, and a piece o' **** gfx card that's not worth a damn. Frame rate drops like crazy when there's a lot of those custom units or buildings. Gonna order a GTX 260 tonight, only 209 on pixmania, P&P is 16 next day delivery.

Overheal

most medium settings 1280x720, comfortable smooth play; same settings at 1950x1080 mildly choppy

AMD Pehnom II X6 2.8ghz
4GB RAM DDR3 1333
Integraded HD 4290 on Asus M4A89GTD PRO/USB3

edit: I'm hearing lots of reports that people are saying they get the "graphics not supported" alert - just ignore it. game runs fine.

Fol20

im using a base line macbook pro

Intel Core 2 Duo
4GB Memory
250GB hard drive1
NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics

Will this run starcraft 2?

Retr0gamer

**** that download wait. Went out and bought the game this morning

Overheal

Fol20 wrote: »

im using a base line macbook pro

Intel Core 2 Duo
4GB Memory
250GB hard drive1
NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics

Will this run starcraft 2?

SC2 will run on that absolutely fine, you should easilly be getting Medium, even High settings out of that.

For the record even a really bad pc would be able to play this though. Isnt there a way to force the game to render in 2D?

Gummy Panda

Settings set to Ultra.

Intel Core i3 530 2.93GHz @ 4.20GHz
4096MB DDR3 RAM
ATI Radeon HD 5850 1024MB GDDR5

Zapp Brannigan

MBP i5 2.4ghz
4GB RAM
Nvidia GT300M

Running it fine on medium settings. Could probably turn some things up I'd say.

Shzm

Dell Studio 15

Intel i5 450m
4gb ram
ATI 5460 (I think) 1GB

1280 x 720 res and everything on high, no slow down at all.

Might be able to put things up a bit, dunno, haven't tried.

adr

Is there any chance to run SC2 on Dell Inspiron 11z?
Intel U4100 1.3GHz
4GB RAM
Intel GS45 Integrated Graphics

I obviously didn't buy it for gaming but SC2 is the only game I would like to play. I'd rather not buy a desktop only to play one game. Is there any chance SC2 will be released on PS3 or Xbox?

Scráib

Macbook Pro, 2GB 667Mhz DDR2 SDRAM, ATI Radeon X1600 256MB Ram, 100Gb Hard Drive

It defaulted all the settings to low. When i try and up them it gets pretty choppy. At the default settings when there's massive armies on screen it gets choppy too and the 'Please close other applications to improve performance' message appears.

That said, the game runs reasonably well. Well enough to enjoy at any rate. Still, if I could upgrade my RAM I would.

Retr0gamer

The games runs ok on my system on medium setting but the lack of ram is killing it sometimes. Levels take ages to load and there's some stuttering when new stuff is loaded into ram like the videos during gameplay and some of the bigger unit deaths. It's fine though once it's loaded into ram.

Jonny7

Xios wrote: »

My set up, 2.8ghz quad core Intel, 8gb DDR2 RAM, and a piece o' **** gfx card that's not worth a damn. Frame rate drops like crazy when there's a lot of those custom units or buildings. Gonna order a GTX 260 tonight, only 209 on pixmania, P&P is 16 next day delivery.

Please tell me thats a mistake and you mean the new GTX 460..

Fol20

i was wondering do i have to buy a mac version of the game,or will any version work in installing it on it on a mac

Spacedog

2 X HD5970s in Xfire
core i7 @ 4 Ghz
6GB RAM
2 X SSD in Raid 0
res 1080p

Runs almost perfectly, the cut scenes and levels load well under 10 seconds. frame rate can drop to noticable but playable levels on rare occasions.

lovin the game, in game cinematics are almost indeciferable from pre-rendered, part because of model/texture quality, but also the work on lip syncing animation, voice acting, scene direction and storytelling matches those of the cut scenes.

Scráib

Fol20 wrote: »

i was wondering do i have to buy a mac version of the game,or will any version work in installing it on it on a mac

No, every copy of the game is both Mac and PC compatible. Blizzard do this for all their games for some reason. I don't know what it is... but I don't mind!

Retr0gamer

Had to stop playing. The chugging and loading from RAM got too much in hte bigger levels and I'm just ruining the game for myself. My friend is getting me a new PC so hopefully I'll be back into soon enough.

RoyalMarine

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Had to stop playing. The chugging and loading from RAM got too much in hte bigger levels and I'm just ruining the game for myself. My friend is getting me a new PC so hopefully I'll be back into soon enough.

ouch that sucks! my brother wants me to price him a laptop / pc that will play it similiar to mine. he's sick of playing it on low settings.

Retr0gamer

Wouldn't mind if I couldplay it on low settings but the disc swapping that's causing the game to slowdown is making it pretty much unplayable. My own fault for not upgrading

Komplett-Tech: Ryan

i7-860 @ 4.2ghz.
8gigs of corsair 1600mhz dominator GT
2 x 5870's 950/1250
Game installed on a 128gig Corsair performance 220/200 ssd.

1920x1080 All settings maxed out Forced AA and AF in the CCC, but it dosen't work. Never below 60fps even on a 4's 150 supply match.

RoyalMarine

Komplett-Tech (Ryan) wrote: »

i7-860 @ 4.2ghz.
8gigs of corsair 1600mhz dominator GT
2 x 5870's 950/1250
Game installed on a 128gig Corsair performance 220/200 ssd.

1920x1080 All settings maxed out Forced AA and AF in the CCC, but it dosen't work. Never below 60fps even on a 4's 150 supply match.

damn you and your job! id love to get that hardware with an employee discount! :cool:

Komplett-Tech: Ryan

You should see the new 980X / 3way 480 setup im getting Grats on the Modship here too btw :thumbsup:

CombatCow

No the Integrated graphics wont stand a chance.

My spec:

Dell Studio Hybrid 140g
Core 2 Duo T5750 2.0GHz
4Gb DDR2
Intel 965 Express Integrated Graphics

Jerks like a 2 dollar whore with everything on low.

CC

adr wrote: »

Is there any chance to run SC2 on Dell Inspiron 11z?
Intel U4100 1.3GHz
4GB RAM
Intel GS45 Integrated Graphics

I obviously didn't buy it for gaming but SC2 is the only game I would like to play. I'd rather not buy a desktop only to play one game. Is there any chance SC2 will be released on PS3 or Xbox?

rainbow kirby

Scráib wrote: »

Macbook Pro, 2GB 667Mhz DDR2 SDRAM, ATI Radeon X1600 256MB Ram, 100Gb Hard Drive

Playable enough to enjoy it? I'm on an almost 4 year old MBP with almost identical specs, and trying to decide if I should get this in a few weeks as my post-thesis treat to myself...

Overheal

Overheal wrote: »

most medium settings 1280x720, comfortable smooth play; same settings at 1950x1080 mildly choppy

AMD Pehnom II X6 2.8ghz
4GB RAM DDR3 1333
Integraded HD 4290 on Asus M4A89GTD PRO/USB3

Same build, add HD 5770 - 1980x1050 ultra, perfectly fine.

NeoSlicerZ

I'm considering getting my desktop shipped to me just to play SC2, lol!

It's a Q6600, 4gb DDR2 + HD2900XT, should be ok for high settings?

Scráib

rainbow kirby wrote: »

Playable enough to enjoy it? I'm on an almost 4 year old MBP with almost identical specs, and trying to decide if I should get this in a few weeks as my post-thesis treat to myself...

It is yeah, but it's on the lowest possible settings so you lose a lot visually. In every mission I get a popup saying 'Close other applications ot improve performance.

To my mind it's the game -20% of what it could be, but until I upgrade 80% of Starcraft is good enough.

MistaMagoo

quad core 2.6ghz
4 gigs ram
ATI 5770

1920x1080 everything on ultra, without any slow down at all.

BlitzKrieg

amd athlo X2 4600+
2 gig ddr2
Geforce 8800 GT

Its the ram and of course...64 bit vista that are killing me atm its impossible to play the last level

but I just bought 4 gigs of ram to be delivered tomorrow so hopefully that will sort out the issue

Xios

Komplett-Tech (Ryan) wrote: »

You should see the new 980X / 3way 480 setup im getting Grats on the Modship here too btw :thumbsup:

Where can i apply

Also, just got my GTX 460 yesterday, have to say, having everything on ultra is purty The zerg creep writhes and shivers, it's truly epic, and it's all glossy and slimey looking, frame rate suffered a tiny bit, so have the settings on high now.

TheDoc

Intel Core duo E5200
4gb Ram
Geforce 6800 GTS 320mb

Game is playing fine with little stutter and decent settings.

New pc arriving tomorrow

AMD II x4 635
Radeon 5770HD
4gb High performance ram


I'm hoping to see a big improvement and put the gmae on high settings, but even on medium it looks tremendous and plays lovely, so i can only imagine how good its going to look tomorrow :O

RoyalMarine

ive got the 5770, and a core i3, and i run it on ultra.

you should be able to get similiar settings with that machine Doc.

thenightrider

I passed eveything with my laptop on the recomended settings
apart from hd space ive got a 500 gb drive in it got to take some stuff of it as i relly want to play this

Free Disk Space Recommended: 12 GB available HD space You Have: 3.0 GB

Ramza

I'm running an oldish machine, AMD 2.0 GHZ dual core, 2GB RAM and an nVidia 6600 (256mb). Game runs perfect on all low setting, looks great

cherryghost

i7 860 @ 3.5ghz
8gb ram
gtx 295
9600gt physx

w7 ultimate x64


Running on ultra, super smooth, 100-120fps on intense fights

Da GOAT

delighted to of just gotten

i3
4gb
Geforce 330m 1tb

Runs on medium perfectly and will try higher settings later.