Starcraft 2 System requirements

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#1 TA127
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I can'tfind them and i don't want to wait a year to find out...

I have a 2 year old-very good to his time-computer...will i be able to run it?

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#2 nutcrackr
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well I don't know but rts games are usually a bit behind fps reqs (sup comm is a good exception though)
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#3 madrocketeer
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The only thing mentioned so far is that you need a Shader Model 2.0-capable card, which would be Radeon 9000 series and above. And knowing Blizzard's track record, I would expect SCII's requirements to be quite low, and the game to have excellent scalability.
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#4 scumbag69
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"I have a 2 year old-very good to his time-computer...will i be able to run it?"

You'd have to firstly post specs mate, saying 'oh my pc is such and such years and its good... it has a banana sticker too' wont mean that we can tell you if you can run it.

That Said we don't know the specs till close to the release date, all we can do is speculate.

I estimate the specs to be that of stalkers current reccomended settings. A 7 Series card and 1GB+ ram to run it sufficiently

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#5 Zandeus
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We wont know for sure what the requirements will be, since the game is not nearly finished. But you can count on Blizzard making it playable across a very wide range of systems, while still making it pleasing to the eye.

I'm not worried.... I'm running a Dual Core 3.4 Ghz, 2 Gigs of 800Mhz RAM & a Geforce 7900GTX 512MB vid card.... I know its not top of the line anymore, but its still quite a beast.

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#6 apanizo
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Blizzard games are usually scalable it will probably run, and than look 2x better when you eventually upgrade.
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#7 TheProphetD
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If SC2 requires SM2.0 Radeon 9500 and above for ATi andGeForce FX (5) and above for nVIDIA.

I hope it would really be SM2.0 and not SM3.0 which a lot of games utilize now,and thus I can't play (my video card supports SM2.0b only).

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#8 Kiwi_1
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If SC2 requires SM2.0 Radeon 9500 and above for ATi andGeForce FX (5) and above for nVIDIA.

TheProphetD

The FXes have nVidia's own unique pixel shading function that is not actually SM 2, and thus they do not handle SM 2 with any speed at all. They shouldn't be counted as SM 2 compatible, no matter how nVidia advertised them.

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#9 madrocketeer
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Whoops! Got my info mixed up in my head. Corrected my OP.
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#10 Kiwi_1
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Whoops! Got my info mixed up in my head. Corrected my OP.madrocketeer

You're still off by 500. The 8500, 9000, 9100, 9200, and 9250 were all pre-Dx9, and all inter-related. The 9600s came after the 9500s, but were slower, and should've been 9400s, but they do have Dx9's SM 2.

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#11 Meu2k7
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Whyyyy ask this question its not out for months & months * months :cry: