Starcraft 2 Graphic requirements

Hey, i know nothing is official yet, but what have you all heard?
What do you think?
Which card is gonna cut it? 8600M GT GDDR3 enough? 8800M?
Cheers
Dav

 

i think the 8600m Gt is enough to take it, blizzard's system requirement are low so everybody can play it.

 

If the 8600 can handle COD4, AC, Gears of War and the other big title games, I think SC II will be no problem for it.

 

Well, we don't really know at this point, but given Blizzard's record, its probably playable on a 8400 GS and maybe even lower.

 

I sure hope it is playable on my 8400m GS

 

well by looking at the graphics on the screenshots, they arent really up-to-date quality so a 8400m GS should run it

unless those screenshots are bogus and they improve it even more, which i dont think they will

 

high end card = high setting,
low end card = low setting.

just a guess.

 

I think Blizzard will go for an LCD approach and make even low end 7 series Nvidia cards run the game smoothly (with settings turned down).

 

If it is released this year, I would say the Intel x3100 will be able to run it with decent settings. I think it will be more CPU than GPU dependant for all the units, AI, etc. Part of the reason for Blizzard's success is that they typically cater to the largest possible audience, i.e. lower system requirements.

 

I certainly hope my GPU can handle it well. But I still think even integrated GPU will run(x3100)

All(most) of thier games run well on integrated GPU at thier time of launch.

 

blizzard makes games for everyone, so requirements wont reach high

 

i think ill be purchasing a new notebook by the time it comes out, so im not really worried

 

SC2 being a bliz game I am not worried they do top notch jobs for programing.

Since it is fully 3d this time around I am willing to bet that can and will take a high end system to crank the game up to its very highest settings, but that bliz will have the game scale very well so that a lower machine can still play it fine and it will look great none the less.

Remember that strategy games like this are an exception to the rule of gpu>cpu often times all the AI scripts and stuff running especially with alot of units in motion mean the cpu becomes the weakest link and not your graphics, lucky for us cpu are very strong in current laptops tho so I do not think this will be a problem.

 

if it runs fine on integrated chip as some1 said then noone should be worried. But I still doubt it that x3100 can run anything above 2004 games at HQ.

 

Blizzard games run on anything higher-end than a etch-a-sketch...

That is not an insult... that is the highest compliment.
As much as I hate WoW, my hatred is mostly for the piles of blithering idiots they have playing the game and has nothing to do with the game programming or my admiration for Blizzard's "get everyone gaming" attitude.

I've had hours upon hours of fun game-time with blizzard games. No doubt SC2 will be among them even on more ancient systems.

Admittedly, WoW might even be a good game if it had enough ignore slots and you played with a guild of people you knew.

 

If an x1300 gives problems running CS 1.6, I doubt it will be able to run SC2.

 

Man, and here I was, thinking that this thread had actually the requirements posted

 

yeah the thread title is a little misleading, but SC2 still hasnt officially released the sys requirements. Hopefully they do soon, so die hard SC fans know...

 

Very sorry :s

 

Here are what a lot of guesses are saying(i.e not official)...

Windows XP or Windows Vista
* 512MB System RAM
* 2 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent processor
* 128MB Direct3D compatible video card
* and DirectX 9.0 compatible driver;
* 8x DVD-ROM drive
* 4.5 GB free hard disk space
* DirectX 9.0c (included)
* DirectX 8.1 compatible sound card
* Keyboard, Mouse

 

that's not too bad

 

Isn't the requirements a bit too low spcially the RAM for vista???

All the others seem to be fine but the RAM si a bit questionable.

 

Yeah, i doubt vista would even run with 512mb of ram.

Last time I only had 512mb of ram was back when I had a Radeon 9600SE and a Athlon XP 3000+

 

a billion stuffs

 

No Vista WILL run at 512 RAm.(our desktop only has 512 RAm with vista basic)

But the problem is running SC2 and Vista will be very hard to believe. Our desktop is already so slow.

 

i really doubt if integrated card will run SCII this time since this game is made in a 100% 3D engine.
Also i saw a SS with over 100 zergs on it, so i would be really worried about the cpu

 

Considering the level of graphics in SC2 I see in screenshots, it's not a whole lot better than C&C 3 if at all and C&C 3 runs fine on a GMA 950 at lowered detail let alone an X3100.

Again, I believe CPU will be more limiting factor, but probably any Core 2 Duo or AMD equivalent will be fine to handle it.

My guess for *minimum* reqs:

CPU: Pentium 4 3.0 GHz or 1.4GHz Core 2 Duo
GPU: X3100
Memory: XP-512MB / Vista-1GB

for max performance:

CPU: Core 2 Duo 1.8 GHz
GPU: ATI X1600 or nVidia 8600 GTS
Mem: XP-2GB / Vista-3GB

 

btw, do you guys think Red Alert 3 will be as good as SC II?

 

SC is more popular although if you like your RA, you will say they are both par overall

RA3 will definately have better gfx but SC has gameplay

 

Red Alert 3.... great! Now I have something chewing my head besides Deus Ex 3 !!

 

I think for maximum results we`ll need a 3.0 C2D . Remember, we are talking about a RTS which by all considerations, mean houndreds , if not thousands of units on a single map.

 

Maybe no more than 1600 units to render if it's maximum 8 players with the starcraft 1 unit cap of 200. If it's the WC3 unit cap then the stress on the CPU should be reduced significantly.

 

SCII will in no way strain your cpu as much as supreme commander does.

 

Aren`t we all just guessing?
I bet a 2.5 CPU would hickup if there were 1600 units on the map. Or more.

 

not everybody uses zergs, so i guess there won't be that many units

 

8 players x 200 units=1600.
If one uses zerg,tough look,at 50-100 more units.
If one uses Protoss, add double , 100-200.
You could see upto 2000 units easily.
Remember,Overlords don`t count, but you need about 25 of them.

 

Yeah but supreme commander is like 1,000 for one person and can be modded to 10,000 per person.

 

Well toward me, the demo it showed was as if they tooked it from the warcraft graphics and little more refined. i might guess that cards that can support direct x9. of course, not intel 950.

 

from the SS from gamespot, i think the graphics of SCII are almost as good as Red Alert 3, but that's just me though

 

Bottom line is that *MINIMUM* system requirements won't be that significant. Considering that Korea is the largest fanbase of Starcraft by far, I'm sure they will cater towards whatever their average PC will handle.

 

Not really. i mean i have friends in korea so i know how the average pc there is. of course they have like pentium 4 computers but... they have at least dedicated graphics and if they don't have good computers to run it, then they can head toward the pc rooms, which has all gaming computers that is "up to date"