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| StarCraft 2 Preview by Denny |  | | PC Preview: Hell, it's about time. | | [View Article] |
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| Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 4:50 pm Post subject: |
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Based on your FB comments, I don't think you are the right person to review this game. You are simply MAD for it! :)
I also really want this game  Is there PC specs listed somewhere?
Nice write up btw.
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| Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 5:00 pm Post subject: |
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| LeonJ wrote: | Based on your FB comments, I don't think you are the right person to review this game. You are simply MAD for it!  |
No I'm not *loads a shotgun*.
Take that back.
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Also yes, PC specs! Taken directly from the Beta Forums
| Quote: | This is our current system requirements:
* Windows XP SP3/Vista SP1/Windows 7
* 2.2 Ghz Pentium IV or equivalent AMD Athlon processor
* 1 GB system RAM/1.5 GB for Vista and Windows 7
* 128 MB NVidia GeForce 6600 GT/ATI Radeon 9800 PRO video card
* 1024x768 minimum display resolution
* 4 GB free hard space (Beta)
* Broadband connection
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Like I mentioned in the preview, it's an amazingly well optimised game. I'm running a pretty powerful comp but I've literally not experienced a single drop in framerate. From what I've heard as well, most people are blasting through it with 3 year old hardware.
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| Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 5:00 pm Post subject: |
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Fired up.
| Denny wrote: | | From what I've heard as well, most people are blasting through it with 3 year old hardware. |
My 3 year old laptop can run the game almost flawlessly on med-high. Blizzard <3
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Blizzard and Valve are two of the few PC developers that focus on making their games look good thanks to high quality art over trying to push a Crytek-like engine. Both developers make sure that their games are at least able to scale down to weaker hardware. Plus top notch engine optimisation helps a bundle.
Unless you're running a truly dinosaur PC I wouldn't worry about it.
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| Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 5:10 pm Post subject: |
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it does run really well, i've got pretty much all settings on high and its still at a playably smooth framerate (on an ~$1000 recentish laptop). pity about the recent problems after patch 13, but i guess they were due for something to go wrong considering there previously wasn't any major issues.
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| Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 5:45 pm Post subject: |
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Noooooooooo need new vidya card for games! CURSES! Then again I do have a card based off a 9200 so it's to be expected. *coughs*
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| Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 6:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | This is our current system requirements:
* Windows XP SP3/Vista SP1/Windows 7
* 2.2 Ghz Pentium IV or equivalent AMD Athlon processor
* 1 GB system RAM/1.5 GB for Vista and Windows 7
* 128 MB NVidia GeForce 6600 GT/ATI Radeon 9800 PRO video card
* 1024x768 minimum display resolution
* 4 GB free hard space (Beta)
* Broadband connection
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My PC is reasonably close to these specs and runs well with minimum detail. I can't remember what resolution I have selected, but it's probably 1920x1200. It's still quite nice to look at too
Athlon X2 4200+ (2.2 GHz)
GeForce 7800 GTX
2 GB RAM
Windows XP
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Game balance in the beta right now is a bit of a mess, but Blizzard are still tuning it. I'm more concerned with the freeze they've introduced in the latest beta patch 13. I can't finish a game with it but at least they've acknowledged it and are searching for a solution.
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Hi - can i play this on my macbook? i have a 13" macbook I bought last year.
Im still waiting on DIII though
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Awesome. I actually had to check what my PC was (I had no idea).
Pentium(R) D 3 GHz, 2 gig of RAM and a GeForce 7900 GT.
Hopefully that will run it OK?
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| arbok wrote: | Hi - can i play this on my macbook? i have a 13" macbook I bought last year.
Im still waiting on DIII though |
mac specs from the beta forums:
| Quote: | MAC Minimum System Requirements:
MacĀ® OS X 10.5.8, 10.6.2 or newer
IntelĀ® Processor
NVIDIAĀ® GeForceĀ® 8600M GT or ATI RadeonĀ® X1600 or better
12 GB available HD space
2 GB Ram
DVD-ROM drive
Broadband Internet connection
1024X720 minimum display resolution
MAC Recommended System Requirements:
MacĀ® OS X 10.6.3 or newer
IntelĀ® Core 2 Duo processor
4 GB system RAM
NVIDIAĀ® GeForceĀ® 9600M GT or ATI RadeonĀ® HD 4670 or better
*Note: Due to potential programming changes, the Minimum System Requirements for this game may change over time.
UNSUPPORTED:
(If you have any of these then your system is not supported)
- Any PowerPC processor
- Mac OS X 10.5.7 and below(This includes 10.4)
- Intel GMA 950
- Intel GMA X3100
- NVidia GeForce 7300 GT
- NVidia GeForce 7600 GT
- NVidia Quadro 4500
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| LeonJ wrote: | Awesome. I actually had to check what my PC was (I had no idea).
Pentium(R) D 3 GHz, 2 gig of RAM and a GeForce 7900 GT.
Hopefully that will run it OK? |
should run somewhere around medium settings from what i've seen, better if they manage to optimise the game more.
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| Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 7:09 pm Post subject: |
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no - slaps Leon across the face with a leather glove , Denny could tell you better then i can but that prosscer is probably going to give you some problems.
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| Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 8:20 pm Post subject: |
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Cant wait, I have being playing the cracked beta for some time know on my macbook and all thou the specs arnt that high it really doesnt look that good on low settings. Probably wait untill D3 to get me a new PC
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| mikezilla2 wrote: | | no - slaps Leon across the face with a leather glove , Denny could tell you better then i can but that prosscer is probably going to give you some problems. |
didn't the pentium d processors come after the p4 line? i would've thought they'd be fairly equivalent to p4s, which apparently run sc2 alright (as long as it's ~2ghz). of course, to get it to run smoothly on that you'd probably need settings somewhere between low-medium (and there's a lot of detail lost between low and medium, much worse than the gap between medium and high). there's a nice comparison article here.
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| Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 11:53 am Post subject: |
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cpu will be fine.
graphics card in a last year 13inch mac would be an nvidia 9400, should run low to maybe medium.
it's been the main macbook gpu for a while, will definately run it on at least low, especially as they seem to be outlining every mac gpu that won't run it under unsupported in that required specs post above.
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| Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 3:32 pm Post subject: |
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So I haven't played this starcraft stuff yet, all I wanna know is if it has custom MP maps like warcraft so I can play some updated TD! 
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| Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 3:35 pm Post subject: |
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^Definitely. The Beta supports custom and published maps already, so you can expect a lot of TD. Hell, fun fact: The concept of DotA from WC3 actually originated from the original StarCraft; at the time it was named Aeon of Strife. I used to play it all the time when I was younger.
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| Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 8:38 pm Post subject: |
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| kaerlis wrote: | cpu will be fine.
graphics card in a last year 13inch mac would be an nvidia 9400, should run low to maybe medium.
it's been the main macbook gpu for a while, will definately run it on at least low, especially as they seem to be outlining every mac gpu that won't run it under unsupported in that required specs post above. |
My macbook has the GMA 950 and its able to run it on low, but I am using the Windows partian
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| Posted: Sun May 30, 2010 11:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Denny wrote: | | The Beta supports custom and published maps already, so you can expect a lot of TD. |
Cheers, I'ma get it for sure now. I went back to WC3 and noticed the new maps have comments about SC2 development ^^
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Got my preorder down for collectors edition. YEAH 
Then I realised we're only going to be on June as of Tuesday. That makes me a sad panda.
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I haven't played the original/its expansion pack. Given I won't have proper Internet for the next 2-3 months, and so I won't be doing multiplayer, should I complete the first one or skip it entirely? The only thing is I'm saving for Mafia II so $25 for the SC Battle Chest is a big chunk of that.
Maybe I should just get SCII in 2-3 months.
*sigh*
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