SC2 System Requirements Revealed

Recently posted under the Starcraft II System Specs for the Beta located here:
Blizzard Starcraft II Support Site

The system requirements for the StarCraft II Beta are as follows:

Blizzard Quote:

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






BETA DRAWS NEAR. HELL IT'S ABOUT TIME

How much is GeForce 7600 GT in stores??

Wow, those are fairly low specs...witht he exception of the 15gbs of HDD space

Guys i dont think my GTX 295 is strong enuf :(

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Originally Posted by Sydarm

Recently posted under the Starcraft II System Specs for the Beta located here:
Blizzard Starcraft II Support Site

The system requirements for the StarCraft II Beta are as follows:

Blizzard Quote:

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






BETA DRAWS NEAR. HELL IT'S ABOUT TIME

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That seems really low for some reason. I wonder if the final release may have slightly higher requirements? Doubt they'd change it that much though if at all.

you people need to understand the engine was developed like 5 years ago on the best hardware then... seeing low system specs is not surprising

btw, where were these specs posted again? link?

Not bad at all. Props to the programmers at Blizzard for their optimization skills.

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Originally Posted by Rashed801

btw, where were these specs posted again? link?

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SC2 Support Site

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Originally Posted by Sydarm

Guys i dont think my GTX 295 is strong enuf :(

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Yea, you're out of luck. Time to upgrade your PC, and send the old parts to me. ;)

AdmiralMengsk, doubt it - they aren't going to uprade the engine any time soon.

Those are much lower specs than what I expected.
Blizzard mentioned a while ago that they were optimizing the game for low-spec PCs, so I guess that explains it.
I guess I'll be able to run it on medium settings. :)