StarCraft II Official! (Pictures)

[UntamedLoli]

That support page has been up a for a long time, those guys are slow.

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=108150

[Eredalis]

No kidding, this StarCraft II icon on the support page is online since 2008.
Nice, that those "experts" from incgamers have finally found this, too. [imgwh 28x18]http://www.smilies.4-user.de/include/Fr ... ch_071.gif[/imgwh]

[Negi]

ya

note the complete lack of AA

Always such a critic.

[IskatuMesk]

HKS says it's possibly because of the lighting engine that doesn't allow AA. I don't normally use AA anyway, but it shows like a sore thumb on every single screenshot they post with something angular in it like terran or protoss or doodads.

If it does allow AA then they're being silly posting screenshots without it.

[IskatuMesk]

Blizzard is really rolling out the cards, now.

http://eu.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?locale=en_GB&articleId=38579&parentCategoryId&pageNumber=1&categoryId=7040

There's your beta sys requirements. They are astonishingly low, but I'll hold my reservations until I actually see it... wc3 and WoW's reqs are low as well, but both can easily cripple your computer.

[Xenon]

That just goes to a "couldn't find any search results" page. I couldn't find the requirements page, what is it under?

[Maglok]

They posted they were/are placeholder specs till beta starts.

[IskatuMesk]

Awww, they removed it. Now I'm not sure how accurate those would have been.

Here's the specs they posted, but since they removed it, take it with a grain of anti-freeze -

Spoiler

Minimum Requirements:
Operating System
Windows XP / XP64 (Service Pack 3)
Windows Vista / Vista64 (service Pack 1)
Windows 7 Home Premium
Processor
Intel Pentium IV 1.3GHz
AMD XP 1500+
Memory
(Windows XP) 512mb
(Windows Vista) 1024mb
(Windows 7) 1024mb
Graphics
3D graphics processor with Hardware Transform and Lighting with 32 MB VRAM
such as an ATI Radeon 7200 or NVIDIA GeForce 2 class card or better
Hard Drive
15Gb (of free space) -
DirectX
DirectX9.0c


Recommended Requirements:
Processor
Intel Pentium D
AMD 64 X2
Memory
(Windows XP) 1024mb
(Windows Vista) 2048mb
(Windows 7) 2048mb
Graphics
3D graphics processor with Vertex and Pixel Shader capability with 128 MB VRAM
such as an ATI Radeon X1600 or NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT class card or better

[UntamedLoli]

Internet meet WoW http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/faq/technology.html

PC System Requirements

OS:

Windows XP 32/64-Bit (Service pack 3)
Windows Vista 32/64-Bit (with the latest Service Packs)
Windows 7** 32/64-Bit (with the latest updates)
Processor:
Minimum: Intel Pentium 4 1.3 GHz or AMD Athlon XP 1500+
Recommended: Dual-core processor, such as the Intel Pentium D or AMD Athlon 64 X2

Memory:
Minimum: 512 MB RAM (1GB for Vista users)
Recommended: 1 GB RAM (2 GB for Vista users)
Video:
Minimum: 3D graphics processor with Hardware Transform and Lighting with 32 MB VRAM Such as an ATI Radeon 7200 or NVIDIA GeForce 2 class card or better
Recommended: 3D graphics processor with Vertex and Pixel Shader capability with 128 MB VRAM Such as an ATI Radeon X1600 or NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT class card or better

Storage: 15 Gigabytes or more free hard drive space is required

Sound: DirectX-compatible sound card or motherboard sound capability
** The exact hardware requirements for Windows 7 are still being calculated. Only retail versions of Windows 7 are supported.

Proceed to /facedesk.

More specifically its a set of older WoW requirements, first thing that struck me as off was the 15gb space requirement when WoW is barely hitting that with 2 expansions.

[Mr.]

More specifically its a set of older WoW requirements, first thing that struck me as off was the 15gb space requirement when WoW is barely hitting that with 2 expansions.

They're just planning ahead.

Also lol I could run SC2 on my 7 year old computer.

[IskatuMesk]

Well, everyone getting their hopes up that this was an indication they could run sc2 on their 10 year old pieces of shit are about to get TROUNCED.

I wouldn't be surprised if it still reached 15 gigs though.

[Falchion]

Holy computer overload, Badman!  15 Gigas???  That's what I'd have planned for a Duality RPG, if I ever made one.  I mean, c'mon, I know games today are large, but I thought it was 6 to 8 gigas tops!

[Pr0nogo]

Nah, I'd be surprised if it DIDN'T get up to 15-20 gigs.

[Lavarinth]

The beta wont, obviously.

[Marco]

At my request, Blizzard allocated an additional 9 gigs of storage space in the requirements for my Celestial Reverie campaign.  Yes, you will be required to download Celestial Reverie in order to play StarCraft II.