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Update: Blizzard's Bob Colayco sent us a mean email
These system requirements are not accurate – the page went up with some placeholder information. We will have more information about beta system requirements once the beta starts. We’d appreciate it if you could amend the story and/or pull the listed numbers.
Thanks, and please feel free to contact me in the future for fact checking before posting StarCraft II stories.
Thanks, and please feel free to contact me in the future for fact checking before posting StarCraft II stories.
Old post before the news was corrected.
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Edit:These are specifically the beta specs. A small title update would be appreciated >.<
Second Edit:Blizzard has now removed the system reqs from the support page. They may have made some mistake in posting them online. Regardless, what was there is copy+pasted below.
http://starcraft.incgamers.com/blog/comments/starcraft-ii-system-requirements-revealed/
http://eu.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?locale=en_GB&articleId=38579&parentCategoryId&pageNumber=1&categoryId=7040
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
Insanely manageable minimum specs o.O
Edit: I added this late for discussion:
Looks like there won't be a Mac beta client, at least not yet.
http://eu.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?locale=en_GB&articleId=42104&pageNumber=1&searchQuery=beta client
Second Edit:Blizzard has now removed the system reqs from the support page. They may have made some mistake in posting them online. Regardless, what was there is copy+pasted below.
http://starcraft.incgamers.com/blog/comments/starcraft-ii-system-requirements-revealed/
http://eu.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?locale=en_GB&articleId=38579&parentCategoryId&pageNumber=1&categoryId=7040
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
Insanely manageable minimum specs o.O
Edit: I added this late for discussion:
Looks like there won't be a Mac beta client, at least not yet.
http://eu.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?locale=en_GB&articleId=42104&pageNumber=1&searchQuery=beta client
To download the Beta software, please log into your Battle.net account and select manage game for StarCraft II Beta (at this time, the Beta is only available for Windows). Once the file has been downloaded, double click on the file to begin the download and installation.