Starcraft 2: System Requirements.

Ouch! Blizzard has leaked the System Requirements for Starcraft 2: Time to upgrade, bitches.

Specifications for Starcraft 2 have leaked out of Blizzard HQ and are unusually high... for Blizzard, at least. Blizzard has been previously renowned for releasing games that will run on even the most antiquated computers, with the success of World of Warcraft partially credited to its meagre demands on player systems. The requirements are ripped straight out of a preview from Spanish games rag Micromania, according to a poster on a Starcraft 2 fan site. Blizzard has yet to confirm the specs, so far only confirming that the game will require Pixel Shader 2.0. Here's the list:

http://www.gamesradar.com/pc/starcra...18211627437097


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Minimum Requirements:

GFX: GeForce 7/8 Series or Radeon 1000/2000 with 25Mb RAM
CPU: Pentium 4
RAM: 1Gb
Internet: ADSL 1 MBit


Recommended Requirements:

GFX: GeForce 8000 or Radeon 2000 series with 512Mb RAM
CPU: Core 2 Duo or Athlon X2
RAM: 2Gb
Internet: ADSL 3 Mbit


Optimal Requirements:

GFX: Geforce 9000er or Radeon 3000er Series
CPU: Core 2 Duo 3 Ghz or Athlon X2
RAM: 2Gb with DualChannel mode

So when it comes out next year, the recommended system will be almost 3 years old. I don't see what the big deal is.

Shit, my computer could run that according to the minimum requirements, and my computer is a turd.

From the track record of Blizzard games, running them on minimal settings always = sketchy and hard to play efficiently without developing ulcers. And WW, most people don't keep their computers updated to yearly standards, atleast I don't, and probably a good 3/4 of the average gamers don't.

What does that have to do with anything? I'm saying that when the game comes out, the recomended components are three years old. You'll be able to build a budget computer that meets the recomended specs.

Just look at it this way D3v, this starcraft 2 game will probably be all the fans will get for a number of years. They want to get a reasonable amount of beefiness into the graphics/physics engine so that it'll look alright compared to other RTSes released in the subsequent years. It looks very beautiful from the videos I've seen and I think they're doing the right thing.

I plan on getting a second computer anyways, if I do in fact move back home, atleast keep my Desktop up to speed, and revert my laptop into my little school accessory, instead of trying to max it out for gaming..