Holy crap! I just watched the trailer in that link you provided and let me just say, HOT DAMN! I've been hearing ppl talk about this game with crazy excitement, without actually knowing anything about it. But after watching that trailer, I'm gonna pre-order this game tomorrow.

EDIT: Also getting another 5870 just to max out everything in this game.

 

Heck yes, Starcraft 2! Who else is hitting up the midnight release?

 

I have been in the beta since day one. I am really pumped for this game. I'm definitely going to the midnight release in Atlanta. Going to pre order it now. Schools been real crazy so i havent had a chance to pre order yet haha.

 

i have had it preordered forever, man i cant wait!!!! Im going crazy, no games are fun atm, all i want to play is sc haha...

 

Cliched dialogue I thought but top-notch voice acting. And, of course, it's Starcraft.

 

Isn't there already a SCII discussion thread somewhere? Maybe not.

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Originally Posted by Tatakai All Holy crap! I just watched the trailer in that link you provided and let me just say, HOT DAMN! I've been hearing ppl talk about this game with crazy excitement, without actually knowing anything about it. But after watching that trailer, I'm gonna pre-order this game tomorrow. EDIT: Also getting another 5870 just to max out everything in this game.

Don't. Its not needed at all. My sig rig runs the game at 1920x1200 at high or ultra settings like butter.

 

im so pumped... BUT

im at school right now chillen for the summer, taking it easy - my computer is here. my dad is coming up from florida to jersey this weekend and i havent seen him since christmas so im going to jersey to visit for ~2 weeks. FSCK by the time i get back to school with my comp and buy the game 11year olds will already raep at the game and pwn me in every 2v2/3v3 i join.

i also havent played the beta so im gonna get pwnnttt hard

 

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Originally Posted by Ajax413 Heck yes, Starcraft 2! Who else is hitting up the midnight release?

MIDNIGHT LAUNCH PARTY! Woot!

 

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Originally Posted by Tatakai All Holy crap! I just watched the trailer in that link you provided and let me just say, HOT DAMN! I've been hearing ppl talk about this game with crazy excitement, without actually knowing anything about it. But after watching that trailer, I'm gonna pre-order this game tomorrow. EDIT: Also getting another 5870 just to max out everything in this game.

I can run it at max on my laptop which has duel ATI MOBILITY 4870's lol.

 

^I agree with Zulli85.

I was in last phase of the beta last week and my sig rig ran it perfectly fine. You should have a more than adequate rig to max everything out smoothly.

 

Yep. I played the game with little lag with an 8800 GT and Dual core 2.2 Ghz Intel of some kind. However, in UMS games with a lot of stuff going on, it froze up and sometimes crashed.

So I built this set up to assure that all my bases would be covered.

 

CPU speed is actually more of a limiting factor according to some benchmarks/reviews out there.

Even with a 8800GTX, you can run the game on the all the highest settings and it will run pretty smooth. However, once you get into a big game, like 3v3 or 4v4 (maybe even 2v2). You will start lagging like crazy. My buddy lags so much he has to give me control of his units as he can't micro at all. He was using a netbook though

My rig, as stated below, still experienced lag during 3v3 battles if everyone was just massing up huge armies.

Not a big deal if you only play 1v1. Which, IMO, is the most fun anyways.

 

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Originally Posted by SVCweyman CPU speed is actually more of a limiting factor according to some benchmarks/reviews out there. Even with a 8800GTX, you can run the game on the all the highest settings and it will run pretty smooth. However, once you get into a big game, like 3v3 or 4v4 (maybe even 2v2). You will start lagging like crazy. My buddy lags so much he has to give me control of his units as he can't micro at all. He was using a netbook though My rig, as stated below, still experienced lag during 3v3 battles if everyone was just massing up huge armies. Not a big deal if you only play 1v1. Which, IMO, is the most fun anyways.

This ^

It's good that SC2 takes advantage of as many cores as it can, but the game is 70% CPU, 30% GPU.

I played with friends in 7v7s some had 2 cores and would start to lag 10 minutes in, 4 cores at 30 minutes, and my six cores ran strong until the 1 hour mark, then I noticed some frame rate drops.

We all have high end GPUs as well, I think the lowest was a 4890 and the highest being my two 5850s.

I had to play SC2 on a single core processor for a few days and let me tell you, about 5 minutes in, the computer went from 60FPS to 15FPS if I was lucky.

 

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Originally Posted by SVCweyman CPU speed is actually more of a limiting factor according to some benchmarks/reviews out there. Even with a 8800GTX, you can run the game on the all the highest settings and it will run pretty smooth. However, once you get into a big game, like 3v3 or 4v4 (maybe even 2v2). You will start lagging like crazy. My buddy lags so much he has to give me control of his units as he can't micro at all. He was using a netbook though My rig, as stated below, still experienced lag during 3v3 battles if everyone was just massing up huge armies. Not a big deal if you only play 1v1. Which, IMO, is the most fun anyways.

uh my CF 5770's should be able to max it out or I'll regret ever going CF instead of a single card.

 

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Originally Posted by Sodalink uh my CF 5770's should be able to max it out or I'll regret ever going CF instead of a single card.

You should be fine in 4v4s for an entire game, but you will experience lag near the end, at least I did. Not much can be done when 8 players have an average of 200+ units per person on the field (thats 1600 total).

 

hopefully my comp can handle it. will be playing @ 1440x900 everything high no aa. if i can get ultra w/ no aa i'll be happy

 

This is one sexy game

 

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Originally Posted by ryaan hopefully my comp can handle it. will be playing @ 1440x900 everything high no aa. if i can get ultra w/ no aa i'll be happy

The only problem will be your CPU, I think past 2v2s, you're computer will be toast. I played 2v2s with friends on Dual Cores and they lagged after about 45 minutes. If you're really serious about SC2 you'll wanna go pick up a quad core. Again, the game is not very demanding graphically, it's very CPU intensive.

Hopefully the actual released version will be a little bit more refined.

 

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Originally Posted by SilverPotato The only problem will be your CPU, I think past 2v2s, you're computer will be toast. I played 2v2s with friends on Dual Cores and they lagged after about 45 minutes. If you're really serious about SC2 you'll wanna go pick up a quad core. Again, the game is not very demanding graphically, it's very CPU intensive. Hopefully the actual released version will be a little bit more refined.

2v2s are easy to handle. It starts to get shaky when 8 people play a custom game with in game cut-scenes; someone always lags because they like to turn up the settings more than they can handle. I can't play unless I'm getting 70+ fps at all times, even under large battles.

I'm probably going to pick up a 460 gtx before the games release, but I'm not sure if I will even notice a difference in fps.