StarCraft 2 System Reqs

[Glitchny]

Originally posted by: LumbergTech
need you be reminded..that

A: this is an RTS. when you have a lot of stuff on the screen, the fps can dip down to zilch if you dont have a good pc...even warcraft 3 was hard to run for a while (no not in comparison to crysis)

B: the game employs a lot more gameplay elements than warcraft 3 ..such as physics..

it sort of blows me away that ANYONE is surprised that it would require a pentium 4..

exactly

the game looks great, the effects and weapons look great. u can have 300+ units on screen at once fighting, and all with realistic physics reactions, pathfinding, etc going on in the background. system requirements seem fine to me, maybe a tiny bit high.

and this game looks nothing like warcraft3 still dont get how people can make that comparison. is it cause its isometric?

 

[potato28]

Originally posted by: Sumguy
Considering its an RTS, that doesn't look too bad.

Now...are those zerg rush specs or what?

Thats what I was thinking, seems like a multiplayer spec more than a single player spec.

 

[CKent]

Originally posted by: Fenixgoon
can't imagine that happening - blizzard's specs have ALWAYS been reasonable. i would not expect them to change the way they made their games as far as playability/scalability goes. it simply doesn't make sense given how many people play their current games and will want to get their hands on SC2

Yeah, a Blizzard hallmark has always been that their games will run on almost any hardware, no matter how ancient. Coupled with the screenshots I've seen, I just can't see this being real.

 

[desolate]

These specs are just speculation and I highly doubt they will be that high, like everyone else has said, Blizzard has always been great at making sweet games that can run fine with an average computer and I believe Starcraft 2 will be no different.

 

[StrangerGuy]

Starcraft ran full speed on a Pentium 133 and 32MB RAM. I doubt we will ever see a game just as optimized again.

 

[s44]

Maybe it's a sign of what they expect to be old when the game's actually released.

 

[Oceandevi]

I expect a 6600gt to run this game just fine.

 

[LumbergTech]

Originally posted by: Glitchny

Originally posted by: LumbergTech
need you be reminded..that

A: this is an RTS. when you have a lot of stuff on the screen, the fps can dip down to zilch if you dont have a good pc...even warcraft 3 was hard to run for a while (no not in comparison to crysis)

B: the game employs a lot more gameplay elements than warcraft 3 ..such as physics..

it sort of blows me away that ANYONE is surprised that it would require a pentium 4..

exactly

the game looks great, the effects and weapons look great. u can have 300+ units on screen at once fighting, and all with realistic physics reactions, pathfinding, etc going on in the background. system requirements seem fine to me, maybe a tiny bit high.

and this game looks nothing like warcraft3 still dont get how people can make that comparison. is it cause its isometric?

I agree, it doesnt look like WC3 very much..the first screenshots did more but i think they got the message that people didnt want that

 

[Coldkilla]

I bet it'll be very low requirements... The in-game videos didn't look very promising imo.

 

[ja1484]

Originally posted by: StrangerGuy
Starcraft ran full speed on a Pentium 133 and 32MB RAM. I doubt we will ever see a game just as optimized again.

Yeah, it was also sprite-based. We're a little more resource hungry these days in the three-dee world.

 

[Agentbolt]

Come onnnnnn ability to run on an X3100 integrated system!!

 

[Ichigo]

I'm pretty sure Blizzard wants to tap into the laptop market, since SC2 is the kind of game that works well on one (especially when you want to LAN it with friends).

These specs would completely rule them out unless SC2 was to be played @ 800x600 or something pathetic like that.

 

[RallyMaster]

They're probably going to put in some HDR bullcrap that will slow most laptops to a crawl...

 

[Fenixgoon]

Originally posted by: RallyMaster
They're probably going to put in some HDR bullcrap that will slow most laptops to a crawl...

in most games i've seen so far, HDR is optional.

 

[Bateluer]

Even though system requirements are fake, they don't exactly represent a high end PC today. And they sure as hell won't represent a high end machine when SC2 is released.