The Adventures of GX640 and Starcraft 2...

Does anyone have any stories to share, benchmarks, or videos?

Also, will i5-430 + 5850 be reliable for SC2 (beta or not), on ULTRA-everything on Bnet?

...I've finally decided to post this in the gaming forums

Thanks guys

 

I think if no one has an answer in the msi threads, pretty sure no one here will know. haha.

 

Some friends of mine were over yesterday playing the beta. They were all on laptops. One was playing with what I'm sure had an Intel 4500, another with a Geforce Go 7900, one with a Geforce 8400M GT, and lastly one with a Geforce 9800M GS. They all ran the game quite nicely for their respective settings, so obviously it's tailored for a large range of graphics cards.

 

Cool, thats good. So it seems like since the 5850, which is only a few steps behind its older brother who is in 1st place, will be no prob. So the true "bottleneck" as you pros like to say, is the CPU right? I'm too uncomputer savvy to know if the i5-430 will handle it well, or should I invest in an upgrade to the i7-620 (the 2 core one) ?

 

Are the same guy who has been spamming the Asus and MSI threads about SC2 and Ultra settings?

If you are, what can't you get through your head, SC2 Ultra is nothing notable and laughable.

Quote straight from Blizzard
StarCraft II Beta - English (NA) Forums -> Ultra Settings Requirements

We test videocards individually in our labs and perform thorough testing to match them to an in-game quality level that will ensure they meet our criteria for smooth gameplay, in multiplayer as well as the single player and story modes. We err on the side of caution to not disrupt the gameplay experience.

The following videocards currently pass our tests for best experience at Ultra:

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT
NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT
NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2
NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT
NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX/9800 GTX+
NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295
ATI Radeon 3870 HD
ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2
ATI Radeon 4800 HD
ATI Radeon 4870 HD
ATI Radeon 3850 X2
ATI Radeon 3870 X2
ATI Radeon 4770
ATI Radeon 4800 Series
ATI Radeon 4850 X2
ATI Radeon 4870 X2

This list may change at any time as we are constantly improving the game to make it faster and better and as we add newer videocards to the list. You may be able to run Ultra on other videocards - those simply didn't pass our stringent requirements for very smooth gameplay.

Please keep in mind Ultra is not required to fully enjoy the game and does not necessarily constitute our recommended spec. Ultra may not necessarily be the highest setting available when the game is released; that is undecided.

Hope this help.

 

Look at those requirements, they are PUNY! That's for Ultra settings and lot of users say they can't see difference between Ultra and High settings.

 

What's your screen resolution? I can ULTRA de game at 1920x1080 with around 25 fps which is not high enough for me. Your system witll probably get over 30fps easily.

I use high/medium with very good fps at 1920x1080. The game does scale well. As for CPU, you won't have much of a bottleneck that impedes you to play at all. The i7 620 would have been your best bet, but your current CPU will be fine.

 

Ah, may have missed that post. Thanks.

Mods please close this thread.

 

they might not notice so use the triangle below ur name to report the post so they can close it.

 

Closed by request.