{"id":111,"date":"2010-07-16T17:31:25","date_gmt":"2010-07-17T00:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/?p=111"},"modified":"2010-07-16T17:52:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-17T00:52:00","slug":"requirements-run-starcraft-2-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/requirements-run-starcraft-2-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"The requirements to run starcraft 2 on a PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With only two weeks left before StarCraft 2\u2032s scheduled release, casual gamers around the world \u2013 especially RTS players &#8211;\u00a0 better make sure their system specs are up to par. The game costs a whooping , or a lesser price if you\u2019re willing to pay a monthly fee, depending on your region and version of preference. Without the hardware to fit the game\u2019s requirements, one may find that his investment doesn\u2019t yield the best gaming experience.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4229\" style=\"width: 614px; height: 491px;\" title=\"Colossus Swarm! Can your computer handle 800 food clashes?\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sc2blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/ColossiSwarm-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"Colossus Swarm! Can your computer handle 800 food clashes?\" width=\"614\" height=\"491\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Throughout the beta and\u00a0especially\u00a0since the introduction of 3v3 and 4v4 matches, the loading screen has often been a vague indicator as to who might be the weakest hardware link and most likely lag behind during the game.<\/p>\n<p>Are you the one who always loads last? See if your system specs meet the  official hardware requirements! Current PC hardware requirements and recommendations are as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h4><strong>PC Minimum System Requirements:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Windows\u00ae XP\/Windows Vista\u00ae\/Windows\u00ae 7 (Updated with the latest Service Packs) with DirectX\u00ae 9.0c<\/li>\n<li>2.6 GHz Pentium\u00ae IV or equivalent AMD Athlon\u00ae processor<\/li>\n<li>128 MB PCIe NVIDIA\u00ae GeForce\u00ae 6600 GT or ATI Radeon\u00ae 9800 PRO video card or better<\/li>\n<li>12 GB available HD space<\/li>\n<li>1 GB RAM (1.5 GB required for Windows Vista\u00ae\/Windows\u00ae 7 users)<\/li>\n<li>DVD-ROM drive<\/li>\n<li>Broadband Internet connection<\/li>\n<li>1024X720 minimum display resolution<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong>PC Recommended System Requirements:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Windows Vista\u00ae\/Windows\u00ae 7<\/li>\n<li>Dual Core 2.4Ghz Processor<\/li>\n<li>2 GB RAM<\/li>\n<li>512 MB NVIDIA\u00ae GeForce\u00ae 8800 GTX or ATI Radeon\u00ae HD 3870 or better<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And for our Mac-using readers:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h4>Mac Minimum System Requirements:<\/h4>\n<p>Mac\u00ae OS X 10.5.8, 10.6.2 or newer<br \/>\nIntel\u00ae Processor<br \/>\nNVIDIA\u00ae GeForce\u00ae 8600M GT or ATI Radeon\u00ae X1600 or better<br \/>\n12 GB available HD space<br \/>\n2 GB Ram<br \/>\nDVD-ROM drive<br \/>\nBroadband Internet connection<br \/>\n1024X720 minimum display resolution<\/p>\n<h4>Mac Recommended System Requirements:<\/h4>\n<p>Intel\u00ae Core 2 Duo processor<br \/>\n4 GB system RAM<br \/>\nNVIDIA\u00ae GeForce\u00ae 9600M GT or ATI Radeon\u00ae HD 4670 or better<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/StarCraft-2\/~4\/Dfh2T-EMXhU\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/StarCraft-2\/~3\/Dfh2T-EMXhU\/\">SC2 Blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With only two weeks left before StarCraft 2\u2032s scheduled release, casual gamers around the world \u2013 especially RTS players &#8211;? better make sure their system specs are up to par. The game costs a whooping , or a lesser price if you\u2019re willing to pay a monthly fee, depending on your region and version of preference. Without the hardware to fit the game\u2019s requirements, one may find that his investment doesn\u2019t yield the best &#8230;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/requirements-run-starcraft-2-pc\/\" style=\"text-decoration:underline\">Read More&nbsp;\u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[34,36,35,37],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}