StarCraft II is not nearly as demanding as I imagined it might have been, and despite looking quite impressive, it was very playable on mid-range graphics cards using maximum in-game quality settings at extreme resolutions such as 2560x1600. Although we have only given you a preview of the performance that is to be expected from StarCraft II by using a beta copy, this should give gamers a good idea of how their gaming system will handle this new title.
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Steve Posts: 76 Joined: 2010-02-08 |
Posted on: 04/30/2010 11:56 AM
Posted by Rageful on 04/29/2010 10:09 PM
I am not sure what to tell you mate. Obviously you should get getting a lot more performance out of that system in this game. Have you tried running something like 3Dmark Vantage to see how your system performs? Is the performance acceptable in other games? Posted by Calle2003 on 04/29/2010 11:02 AM
Interesting but I cannot say I have seen any difference in performance when disabling HyperThreading. That said HT does nothing for games as hardly any utilize 4 cores and almost none use more than 4. Furthermore StarCraft2 makes very poor use of the CPU and at best can only utilize 2 cores. At this stage I do not plan to do any more testing with SC2, as awesome as the game is to play its hardware requirements are quite basic. |
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Calle2003 Posts: 15 Joined: 2010-04-27 |
Posted on: 05/02/2010 08:22 AM
Posted by Steve on 04/30/2010 12:56 PM Interesting but I cannot say I have seen any difference in performance when disabling HyperThreading. That said HT does nothing for games as hardly any utilize 4 cores and almost none use more than 4. Furthermore StarCraft2 makes very poor use of the CPU and at best can only utilize 2 cores. At this stage I do not plan to do any more testing with SC2, as awesome as the game is to play its hardware requirements are quite basic. Hello Steve, Here's an article which states negative impact of some games (users are reporting stuttering): http://www.overclock.net/intel-cpus/518995-i7-hyperthreading-negatively-impacts-gaming.html and also there's some links to graphs, like this one (SMT's negative impact on Crysis): http://www.behardware.com/art/imprimer/737/ I totally understand you don't want to do any more on SC2 since it's still in beta, but maybe when it's released? With SMT technology you cut off all the CPU's cache in half, so it's understandable you can get a negative impact in games, esp the ones using less than 4 threads. To draw a parallel: my previous AMD X2 4400+ with 2 MB L2 cache sometimes beat the faster clocked ones like 4600+ because the double amount of cache (could be seen in several reviews). Anyway, keep up the good work! |
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shant |
Posted on: 05/03/2010 07:20 PM
hey steve, you forgot to set shaders to extreme  there's an extreme option for it (H)btw can you do it again after its released with AA this time from nvidia control panel using override settings?  i have 9800GT 1GB it runs like a charm @ 1336x768 highest settings(shaders @ extreme) without AA but sometimes gets slow at big battle's, cpu is Q6600+4GB 800 |
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Busta |
Posted on: 05/03/2010 10:47 PM
I have been playing since the beta was first released and I am pretty sure the extreme setting was added by a patch. As far as I know the game is not being released until the end of the year. They have not even started trialling 3v3 auto-match yet. |
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Garvey |
Posted on: 05/08/2010 09:56 AM
This game rocks!!! Thanks for the performance article. Helped me decide on my new graphics card. |
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pallenda |
Posted on: 05/13/2010 05:49 PM
would have been nice to see the i5 tested since i'm thinking about gettting a i5 430m + nvidia 360m GPU laptop for a good Starcraft 2 laptop. Do you guys think that setup with w7 and 4Gb ram will be a nice laptop solution for SC2? I'm thinking about getting the Asus 15" G51Jx laptop. |
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@Spikey39 |
Posted on: 05/15/2010 02:13 PM
You don't have to do both at the same time. What about a second hand GPU? I just upgraded my 7300GT to an HD 4670 and I've seen a massive gain in performance and I've been able to turn a lot of the settings up high on 1600x1200. It's far from a igh-end card and only cost me £60 in the UK. Second hand ones were going on ebay for much cheaper. |
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Squeak |
Posted on: 06/05/2010 02:19 PM
I personally find the GPU performance benchmarks for Starcraft 2 very startling due to the disparate relations between the Geforce and Radeon cards. For instance, the 5670 is supposed to be on par with the 9800GT according to many benchmark tests (plus minus 5% of each others in most games like Left 4 Dead 2, Modern Warfare 2, Far Cry 2, Hawk etc.), slightly faster than the 8800GT (~10%), and much faster than the 9600GT by a huge amount. The 5750 and 5770 are also supposed to be faster than the 8800GTS, 9800GT, 9800GTX and GT 240 by around 30-50%, but yet this test seems to show that Nvidia cards are more favored than their ATI counterparts for Starcraft 2. Notice how the 9800GT (5670 equivalent) is performing around the level of a 5770 while a GT 250 (between 5670 and 5750 performance) has approached the 5800 series in terms of performance. Is there any reason why the ATI series is lagging behind so much? |
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ProX |
Posted on: 06/07/2010 09:00 AM
@ Squeak - umm yeah this is a "BETA" game and at the time this article was published it was months away from release. This is simply a beta guide and I would wait for the game to actually be released before getting to excited about benchmark results. |
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ThuG |
Posted on: 06/12/2010 08:13 PM
I don't know how you got crossfire to work I was running two 5770's through beta trying to crossfire them did everything I could even fresh installs of windows 7 and drivers, making sure each card was running right etc but when I got into sc2 if I had ai enabled (which is basicly crossfire) I would see like 1/2 the mineral fields all sorts of stuff.... so I would have to disable ai to get sc2 to run right thus only using 1 card... I wish they would just say if they are going to support crossfire & sli so we all knew ahead of time. |
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Zergling |
Posted on: 06/13/2010 10:35 PM
My 5770 CF cards worked well. What drivers were you using? |
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chou Posts: 1 Joined: 2010-06-21 |
Posted on: 06/21/2010 11:22 AM
I am a noob and my specs are quite awful: - 3gb RAM - 2.4 GHz Intel E2220 Dual Core CPU I am planning to buy graphic card that might allow me to play at medium settings without lag (when big battles occur). My budget is quite low, and I would like to avoid buying also a PSU. Is this possible? I might therefore buy: - 1 addidionnal gb of RAM - a decent graphic card Which one do you advice which is not overkill for my system and that allows me to play correctly w/o PSU? Do you have any further suggestions to upgrade my system? My budget is around 100$ Btw this is my motherboard: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01386897&tmp_task=prodinfoCategory&lc=en&dlc=de&cc=at&lang=de&product=3917919 Thanks for help |
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Asmo |
Posted on: 07/01/2010 03:38 PM
Hi guys, sorry bothering you with my silly question I would like to know if that laptop is going to play SC2 at 1366x768 @ ultra (or at least very high) settings with a stable 30+ frame rate . The laptop is the Toshiba Satellite L505-13N. Thank you for your answers. - 4gb DDR3 Ram (1066MHz) - Intel Core i5 430M (2,26GHz) - ATi Mobillity Radeon 5165 (600MHz core - 800MHz gddr3) - HDD 500gb 5400rpm |
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puupin |
Posted on: 07/13/2010 07:05 AM
nice article, was planning on upgrading my psu and gettin a 4870 1Gb later this year. makes me feel confident in my purchase to see this card is still stackin up decent against newer games |
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SwissCheese |
Posted on: 08/10/2010 09:44 PM
This is what i run and let me tell you it runs beautifully. No need to get a quad... duo core is fine (Just OC it  )OS: Windows 7 (64 bit) CPU: Intel E8400 (3.0 OC to 3.6 ghz on air cooling) memory: Corsair 8 gigs DDR2 1066 mhz graphics: XFX GeForce GTX 260 |
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