So after all of the podcast coverage and talk from Brad I finally broke down and bought SC2 today. I've been holding out for PC reasons and the fact that I know that this game will suck my life away. God Damn it Brad, why did you do this to me!
I logged a metric ton of hours into SC/Brood wars but thats was years ago. How accessible is this to a pretty familiar SC/WC3 player? Someone please tell me its like riding a bike. Also I have PC concerns. i was able to play L4D2 pretty well with minimal jerk, but i know there is alot more going on. I exceed all the minimum req except proc which is just a step behind the minimum. Its a laptop so I'm boned for upgrades, but does anyone see this as being a problem? I'm not looking at running ultra, just being able to play period.
Again Brad, this is your fault. You have forsaken me with your grand tales of starcraft and inevitably are going force me into building/buying a new PC just to play starcraft. God Damnit!
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
Game » consists of 10 releases. Released Jul 27, 2010
The first chapter in the StarCraft II trilogy focuses on the struggles of the Terran race, as seen through the eyes of Commander Jim Raynor, leader of the rebel group Raynor's Raiders.
This is Brad's fault.
Urgh, Processor is the absolute WORST thing to not meet requirements for this game, and RTS games in general really. I guess you might be ok with stuff on min in 1v1 if you don't both mass zerglings or carriers or something where you can get a lot of units.
SC/WC3 to SC2 is pretty easy. SC2 is extremely accessible, even to someone who hasn't played an RTS before. That's probably one of the best things about the game, how accessible they've made it.
The minimum requirements are not set in stone, if you are close to the minimum, then you should be ok but you will be cutting it very close. As far as i am aware blizzard is all about the lowest requirements possible to get as many people into the tent as possible. That is why i feel you should be ok but get ready to set everything low.
Turn off voice chat when you're in the game -- it takes up some unnecessary processing time. Playing on all low should hopefully be fine, but the worst feeling you get is when you lag in a 1v1. You have to have a really smooth experience to micro well and if you can't, you'll be at a huge disadvantage :<
If the game is unbearably laggy, you can try enabling Triple Buffering, and disabling V-Sync. I'm not sure if those settings are in SC2, but if not, you can force-enable/disable them in some type of hardware performance control panel (like the NVIDIA Control Panel.)
In some cases, it can boost the framerate by as much as 20 FPS.
TBH, this is the worst thing about SC2, i got a high end laptop 2 years ago... i never thought that it would expire by the time SC2 came out, i was expecting slightly harder to run than W3, but i hate running low specs and still lagging.
My bad i meant to say 3, and i don't know anyone else with a laptop that had 4 gig ram, and a dual SLI radeon graphics card, it might not sound much by todays standards. Oddly enough i could run the beta pretty ok, maybe i do need a format pretty badly.
I confess i am not a whiz computer parts, but i did spend a good amount of money :).
To update It did run very well on the laptop. I had misread the 2.4 GHZ P4 as a 2.4 dual core minimum. I've got a 1.87 DC proc so I still run it on low, but it runs like a champ. First match played as zerg against a medium AI and got it handed to me in a big time way. Second match as terrans I still got beat down, but it wasnt as severe. Someone is surely going to get some easy wins on my behalf very soon. =)
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