Performance?

[Dalcyon]

How's your PC handling SC2? On mine I selected the highest settings and not a single stutter that I noticed. Kudos to the SC2 programmers!

Win 7, Core i7, Dual SLI GTX 260, 6G Ram
No Overclocks

[Rockstump]

Vista x64
i7 920, GeForce GTX 285, 6 GB Ram

Runs perfectly for me on the highest settings.

[Minor]

Post your graphics cards and stuff too, that will make this thread a lot better.

I have a Core2Duo, 6 gigs of ram, and an nVidia 8800GT, and High runs without any stutter. Ultra has minor stutter, but I may have had a program or two open in the background. Excellent performance overall.

[Ovid]

I have yet to notice a problem with everything maxed, they did a good job wit it so far.
nVidia GTX 260

[Lightning]

6gb ram, i7 920, geforce 295gtx, everything ultra/maxed (desktop)

4gb ram, forgot cpu, ati 4570 (i think), medium no lag, (high and ultra lags) (sony sr 13.3' laptop)


looks good, waiting on the new alienware m11x and hopefully that runs sc2 all on ultra with no lag :)

[CYpher]

Intel Xeon X3210 @ 2.33ghz (333FSB X 7)
ATI 4870 1GB GDDR5
2GB Ballistix 1066 4-4-4-12
Abit IP-35 Pro

The game runs very smooth on a mix of mostly ultra with some high settings, it's what the game automatically picked.

Used to have a 640MB 8800GTS but it started artifacting all over the place and (surprisingly) EVGA would not honor my lifetime warranty as I forgot to register the product within the first month (stupid policy IMHO). But anyways the ATI card handles it fine and my quad-core Xeon seems to be operating with all four cores doing work, which is great as I love to see new games thread across cores.

I should probably put this in the suggestions forums (is there even one?) but it would be nice if there was a simulated game with intense fighting that we could benchmark setups across similar to like Lost Planet's benchmark simulation.

[Shawabti]

Intel core 2 2.8ghz
4gb 1033mhz DDR3
gforce 260m

I run all highest settings with absolutely no issues. I love my laptop.

[Arangarx]

Intel Quad 2.6
GeForce GTX 260
4GB RAM

Runs perfectly on highest settings. Actually defaulted everything to highest and the game is just beautiful. My only complaint is one of my 2v2 placement matches crashed :(

[Pjo]

i7 920 3.3Ghz
6GB DDR3 RAM @ 1600 mhz
Gtx 295
Ultra Settings

60-90 fps

[Greengoo]

Core i7 940 (+Coolermaster V-8)
Asus P6T X-58 Mobo
6GB DDR3 OCZ Gold
EVGA, Geforce GTX 260 Core

Running with nothing OC'd, game is pushed with all settings to 11 and haven't had so much as a hiccup.

Whatever they did with the graphics coding they did incredibly well.

[Silver]

Everything is on Ultra, not a single stutter what-so-ever. Beautiful, beautiful game full of terrible, terrible, damage.

4 GB DDR3, Quad Core @ 2.24 GHz, NVidia GeForce 9800 GT 512.

[Sephiroth]

Win7
Intel I5 @ 3.85Ghz (cooled with a corsair H50)
8GB of ram Kingston Hyper X 1333Mhz
2x GTS250 1GB in SLI
80GB Intel SSD X-25M second generation

No problem at all here so far. Every thing is maxed out and every thing is smooth. i must say it load incredibly fast with the SSD.

[Ankh]

im using a late 2008 Macbook pro via bootcamp.
dont have my exact spec's on hand, bcz im at work.
2.4ghz core 2 duo
2 gig ram
nvidia 9600m GT
Win7

But i originally had it all at Ultra, but it was a little laggy, so then i moved it to High.
then my game got all sorts of messed up, and ending up going to black screen then crashing.

so i logged back in, and changed to Medium and it played fine. i did alt + tab so that may have been what caused my error. (that and i did have some windows updates that needed to be applied, i haven't logged into windows in awhile)

So im going to go home, and try it on High again.

Anyone else out there using a MBP via bootcamp to play? id like to know your performance.

ANkh

[Twoscomp]

I'm running w7 on a late 2006 Macbook Pro:

2.0 Ghz Core Duo
2gb Ram
Radeon x1600 128mb

I basically have to run on very low settings to play with little to no stutter :(

[Triper]

AMD Phenom II x4 OCed @ 3.54ghz
4gigs DDR3 @ 1333mhz
Nvidia GTX 260 (was OCed, but was having some issues so I removed that)
WD 750GB Black HD

All settings highest with no problems, this game is prettttyyyy (and a lot harder on my graphics card than WoW)

[Zeitgeist]

Intel Core i7 920 @2.66ghz
6gb 1600mhz DDR3
ATI 5850 2gigs
2 7200rpm 500gb hard drives in Raid 0 for gameplay
1 7200rpm 1Tb hard drive for fraps

Vsync on, windowed, 1920x1080, max graphics... Constant 60fps even while frapsing.

[Wyndrunner]

runs perfectly smooth on ultra settings, never seen a stutter or anything similar.

Win 7 Home Premium x64
AMD64 5200+
4GB DDR2
Nvidia 8800GT

[Jackedup]

Windows 7
Core i7 860
8 GB Corsair dominator ddr3 ram
MSI P55-GD80
ATI Radeon HD 5870 2GB GDDR5
Kingston 64gb SSD

I run Max setting with no stutters. Though i couldnt get windowed mode to fit my screen. I would like to watch a show or have a brower open on my other screen while i am testing units and builds against a comp.

[Rip]

Vista x64
i7 2.66, GeForce GTX 285, 12 GB DDR3 Ram

The game can't be smoother for me.

[Ahnteis]

My main computer runs it maxed no problem.
c2d e8500
geforce 275
4GB RAM
win 7 64bit
res: 1920x1200


My laptop is probably of more interest
c2d t6670 (2.2GHz)
geforce 9300M GS
4GB RAM
win 7 64bit
res 1280x800

This is a low-powered GPU, so I expected it to run a lot slower. At lowest settings, it seems to run fine. At medium settings, it runs pretty good usually, but I get small pauses from time to time. It does run though. ;)

[Pedosmiley]

1 gig ram (not sure what ddr it is, probably lowest you can get :P)
Pentium 4 3.2 ghz
Geforce 6800

Runs all low with a little kick on panning the camera xD
But judging on what's going on in this thread so far, the computer i should be getting next week:

6 gig DDR3 memory
AMD radeon 5770 gfx
core i7 processor

Should run it on ultra without a kick.

[Bibdy]

Runs like a dream on max-settings on my system

Pentium IV q6600 Quad-core
AMD Radeon HD 5750
4GB RAM

Blizzard do a good job of not making excessive graphics, keeping the graphics pretty, and having great performance.

[Comfyblanket]

Windows 7
GTX 285
4GB 800mhz ram
e8400 @ 4.0ghz
1680x1050x32

Runs perfectly smooth at maxed out settings.

[Dabladeroden]

Windows 7
Nvidia 8800 GTS
Intel Core 2 Quad
4 GB RAM
1280x960
Default Settings

It runs smooth earlier in matches, but once a big battle starts it will get slowed down some.

[Drdoak]

When I WAS able to get the game running after first installing I had no performance issues. Now after last night, I try and run the program again and it just gives me a black screen with a working icon where my cursor is located.


I guess I'm gonna have to reinstall :P


Intel Q9300 @ 2.5GHz
8gig DDR3 RAM
Win Vista 64x
GeForce 9800 GTX


This is irritating!

[Icsmurfs]

Win 7 x64
i7 920 @ 3.6
GTX 275
6GB DDR3 @ 1700
1680x1050

Everything maxed, smooth as butter

[Xero]

All of these high end computers... Bah! Time to post some impressive specs.

I can run Medium with little to no problems.

Intel Centrino Duo Processor 1.66 GHz
NVidia Quadro FX2500M
1 Gig of RAM

Figure that shit out.

[Vorador]

Penryn E8400 @ 3ghz
8800GT 512mb
4gb ram
Win7 64-bit
24" LCD 1920x1200 resolution.

I'm impressed. I get solid performance on high settings.

[Kelsier]

Resolution: 1920x1200, all settings maxed out with no problems

64bit Win 7 ult.
Intel C2D E8500 Wolfdale 3.16ghz OC'd to 4.0ghz
EVGA nVidia GTX 260 896mb
4GB 1066 RAM

[Killface]

Pentium II 633 Mhz
3DFX Voodoo 3 16MB
512MB RAM
Win98

Runs ultra fine, no stutters.

[Fusion]

Win7 Professional x64
AMD Opteron 165 1.8 @ 2.75GHz
Mushkin 2GB DDR500
eVGA 8800GT 512MB

Runs Ultra with no slowdowns/lag.

[Eliyah]

Duo core 3.0ghz intel proc E6850
GTS 250 BFG 1 GB
4 GB ram
W7 RC 7100 ( which i have to format soon boohoohoo)

Playing on a 22in samsung monitor, everything is at ultra on 1680x1050 res.
look great

[Alyssta]

Highest settings (Ultra?):

Win 7 64-bit
Core 2 E4500
4GM mem
GTS 250 1GB
7200 HD 500GB

nothing stellar obviously but husband and I have almost the same stats and it runs great at native res (22 and 24 " widscreens)

The game still looks pretty nice but for some reason I have a suspicion maybe some stuff is turned off?

[Dmize]

Mac Pro -

Quad Core 3.0ghz x2
Geforce 285 GTX
12gb of Ram

Ultra High Settings, 10 second loads, not a single shutter. Awesome!

[Kiyo]

Win7 64bit
Phenom II x4 955 @ 3.6ghz
6gb ddr3 @ 1600mhz
GTX 275
running at 1920x1080, all settings at ultra, runs smooth.

[Soupbrah]

I'm getting 80+ FPS, everything set to ultra, with my i7 920, Win7, GTX 260, and 6 gigs of RAM, all at stock speeds.

The game is beautiful and plays very well, I guess that's how we can be sure it's a Blizzard game.

[Swanson]

AMD 2.6ghz quad core
4 gigs of ram
2x xfx 9800gtx core clock at 720mhz

Performs well except I expected more performance. Starcraft 2 doesnt yet support 2 video cards yet. Hope the change that.

[Dalcyon]

Performs well except I expected more performance. Starcraft 2 doesnt yet support 2 video cards yet. Hope the change that.

Wait, SC2 doesn't support 2 vid cards in SLI? Does that mean SC2 is only taking advantage of 1? Isn't SLI implemented by drivers from Nvidia/ATI? I'm not exactly sure, but from what I underestand any game you play is taking advantage of 2 video cards as long as you have the right video drivers installed.

[Hydd]

8800gtx sli
core 2 extreme 2.66
4gb ram

running the game on 2560x1600 on ultra

I've noticed some screen tearing & the shadows when creating buildings flicker oddly (definitely not intended). I also seem to be getting some sort of crash every 5 or so games. My graphic cards just fail to respond and have to do a hard reboot. This is new to me and only experienced in Starcraft 2. I'm running the newest drivers on W7 x64.

My roommate played about 30+ hours of dragon age on my machine last weekend and never even shut down my computer. So this is something Starcraft 2 related :(

[Pharaoh]

Runs like a dream

AMD Phenom II X3 @ 3.31ghz
8gb ram
ATI 4870x2
32" LCD 1680x1050

to note tho if i let the game go idle the screen starts glitching in and out in the main lobbies. When I join a game after the previous has happened the game slows down tremendously untill I alt tab out. This eventually leads to having to restart the game. I tried updating the drivers to my video card last night but this seems to have made the issue slightly more frequent. (ill post that in the bug forum now.)

[Thedoctor]

Intel Core i-7 960 3.2GHz
12GB 1800MHz Memory
EVGA GeForce GTX 295
Windows 7 64-Bit

Runs great with all settings maxed at 1920x1080 res

[Dalcyon]

Wow it seems most everyone here has at least a quad core or better system. We all have been getting ready for SC2. I built mine solely for SC2 hehe.

[Ezra]

AMD X2 6000+ (dual core)
3GB 800MHz Memory (was 4GB, had to take a stick out)
ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT
Windows 7 64-bit

Runs great with settings at High (a few settings slightly lower) at 1680x1050 res

[Ezra]

Pentium II 633 Mhz
3DFX Voodoo 3 16MB
512MB RAM
Win98

Runs ultra fine, no stutters.

I lol'd.

[Diefly]

9800GX2, 2.5 ghz core 2 quad, 790i mobo, 4 gigs 1333 ram

can run it on ultra in 1680x1050 with no stutters but the game is constantly giving me "starcraft 2 has stopped working" errors mid-matches, very frustrating. I checked my gpu temps after a game today and they were over 100 degrees...thinking that's the problem

[landwarrior]

9800GX2, 2.5 ghz core 2 quad, 790i mobo, 4 gigs 1333 ram

can run it on ultra in 1680x1050 with no stutters but the game is constantly giving me "starcraft 2 has stopped working" errors mid-matches, very frustrating. I checked my gpu temps after a game today and they were over 100 degrees...thinking that's the problem

My setup is:

Windows Vista
nvidia 9800 GX2 1GB
nForce 750i SLi motherboard
4 GB of Ram
Core 2 E8400 3.0ghz dual core

My game runs perfectly on maxed settings

[Diefly]

My setup is:

Windows Vista
nvidia 9800 GX2 1GB
nForce 750i SLi motherboard
4 GB of Ram
Core 2 E8400 3.0ghz dual core

My game runs perfectly on maxed settings

Interesting...could you install hwmonitor and tell me what your temps are after you play a match? That would be really helpful, here's the link: http://www.cpuid.com/hwmonitor.php just click the link on the top left for 64 bit no installation required

[Stormtrooper]

Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 2.66GHz
4GB Corsair DDR2 XMS 800MHz RAM (3.25 usable)
XFX GeForce 8600GT (GDDR2)
Windows 7 Ultimate x86

Looking at most settings on medium with some low & off. Running about 25-35 FPS. Definitely going to need a GTS 250 or GTX 260. Also planning on an Intel SSD although that upgrade won't be very noticeable in-game, just help with load times.

Tom's Hardware Graphics Card Hierarchy: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-gaming-graphics-card,2544-7.html

[Burrich]

AMD Athlon 64 Dual Core 2.2 GHz
Radeon HD3850 (AGP)
2.0 Gb RAM of some variety

Last I checked all of my settings were on High and I've had no problems that I can recall.

[Betta]

I have a Macbook Pro (mac represent?):
2.5ghz T9300 C2D
8600M GT w/ 512mb VRAM.
4gb DDR2.

Runs it fine (50-60fps) on medium (with a few settings turned up).

I run this on Windows 7 btw, I can also run it fine on lowest detail in an XP virtual machine, which is surprising. It freezes every now and then for a second or two, but otherwise it works well.