Radeon 5730 not compatible with Starcraft II?? :(

Hey guys! Just recieved my dell studio XPS and was planning on playing SC2 on it on high settings. But when I star the game up, it says my driver is not compatible with starcraft 2, even though I just installed the latest driver for my 5730 (w a gb of ram)

What gives? Maybe this card isn't the be all end all for gaming, but SC literally runs like crap. Moving on the map is slow and unresponsive. I'm better off playing on my lesser powered desktop...

Anyone had success playing sc2 with a 5730? If so, what settings and what drivers? Help is appreciated!

-Grizzmayne

 

What resolution are you running?
What graphics setting?
Drivers up to date?

 

Runs great on mine . 1600 x 900 Ultra Shadows medium Reflections off. Update to cat 10.7

 

I have tried a few resolutions. My computer has a full 1080p display, but the game "recommends" everything to be on low and the 1280x720 resolution. My dual core pc with 512 mb of ram in the gfx card is recommended to medium. (despite the worse gpu and cpu. Not to mention runs the game smoother)

 

I seriously don't know what to do. I did a clean reinstall of windows, just installed cat 10.7 again, and when I open my options in SC2 it says my video card is not recognized. This is literaly the only game I plan on playing on my laptop...

 

Ignore that. The setting is a little funky when you first load the game as it doesn't recognize it right away. After changing the settings it should run just fine. I had the same message on my lappy. HD5870. I set it all to max, no slowdown unless its 500 units.

 

Hi,

My xps 1645 has been sent to dell for repair due to the throttling problem. As for what I understand from your reply is that you are able to play ''high end'' 3d games without any problems. Did you ever had any throttling problem with your xps 1645? What BIOS version are you running?

For your info, I have the xps 1645 with the i7 720qm, 4gb ddr3 and ati radeon 4670. My graphic card will be changed to the 5730 and I hope it will stop the throttling problem because I had problem running battlefield 1942 on it (the same game that I was able to run on my 4 years old dell inspiron 1501).

EDIT : Could you also tell me what AC adapter you are using because this seems to be a big issue.

Thank you.

P.S : sorry for my bad english, I'm french (hope you can understand what i'm trying to explain)

 

SC2 runs great on my system at 1280x720 on low-to-med settings. I received the same message after installing it as well. Just ignore them and start fiddling around with the settings until it runs as well as you want it to. Since the 5730 is basically a higher-clocked 5650, I'm pretty sure it can run at med-to-high with very little problem.

 

bchreng: you should be able to run at higher settings than that, given your laptop's specs. You should be able to run on high settings and maintain 20+ fps. Are you getting intermittent slowdowns, or just a consistently low fps? Or do you just have your settings low to get really high fps in busy custom games?

 

I get the slowdown in busy games like 3v3s and 4v4s during the larger battles. I want to try and maintain 30+ fps, but even at my settings, the game dips down to 20+ on the larger maps. There is also some slowdown during the more intense cutscenes that use the in-game engine in the single player campaign.

 

running fine here.

 

Could someone with a xps 1645 please tell me what BIOS version he is running and what is his AC adapter.

Thank you

 

Turn off reflections and rest at medium. Runs great.

 

said the same thing for my system when i first looked at the graphics, but it didnt mean anything.

It might be some kind of ATI notebook issue

 

I experienced throttling on my old 1640 it was replaced and now my 1645 experiences no throttling at all. I have bios A09 and 130w ac adapter.

 

I'm curious.. what is this GPU?