StarCraft II Beta: Game Performance Analyzed

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LLJones

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Nice review, never played the original, will have to give this a try. I'm tired of run and gun.

A small request. Would you be so kind as to include a 4 series Radeon in your next review? Maybe a 4870 or 90. I know that my CF/OC 4770's give me 4890ish performance, but have no idea where this is in 5 series.

As you used older Nv cards, I will guess that the game is DX11 but DX10(.1) playable.

With a little luck, a few months from now, I will only need to look at the 5 series charts.
 

Ragnar-Kon

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[citation][nom]lljones[/nom]Would you be so kind as to include a 4 series Radeon in your next review? Maybe a 4870 or 90.[/citation]

I have a Radeon HD 4870, and my performance on the Starcraft 2 beta is about the same (usually better) as my roommate, who has 5770. When I'm looking at the FPS it usually sits around the 78fps mark. I couldn't tell you during an intense battle because... well... I'm not looking at the FPS meter. In general, our cards performs about the same in most games we play. The rest of our systems are also comparable, with the exception that he has a significantly faster hard drive than me, which usually only comes into effect on load times (he can load a Bad Company 2 map about 15 seconds before I can load mine).

Of course our little benchmarking isn't as precise and Tom's is, but maybe that'll give you a starting point.
 

Ragnar-Kon

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[citation][nom]ragnar-kon[/nom]When I'm looking at the FPS it usually sits around the 78fps mark..[/citation]

This should be 48 fps, not 78. Damn lack of edit.
 

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i would have hopped to see more scaling and not so much cpu dependent oh well... also the multi core code hope that will improve cause everyone will soon have 3-6 cores... and if only 2 cores are giving you any advantage i hope they optimize it at least down the road
 

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I was dissapointed that there were no GTX470/480, since i'm planning on buying them :)
Other thing that bothers me is a CPU :( i have Phenom x4 at 2,3ghz and as i see this game runs better on faster CPU's :(
and man, i can't wait to get my hands on this game :D
 

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haplo602

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hmm ... so clearly widescreen is an advantage in the game ...

anyway I do not like the ground detail in the higher (med+) graphics settings. it looks very plastic and unnatural to me ... I guess for all the eye-candy, my most used setting will be low ...
 

fragkrag

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If the game is truly as CPU bound as these benchmarks suggest, what the hell is blizzard doing not making it multithreaded...
 

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[citation][nom]bmadd[/nom]no GTX480/470??[/citation]

I'd go so far as to suggest a 470 or 480 would be overkill for this, just as they'd be overkill for WoW.
 

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920 i7 @ 3.9 with 5870 @ ultra setting and 1080 res, i get around 150-200+fps even in crazy battles (from frap)

p.s pre-order starcraft 2 at amazon or gamestop and get a beta keys (for those who want to play NOW!)
 

CTPAHHIK

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Works fine with Agena 9600 + 9600GT (197.45) on ultra preset @ 1680x1050. Latest v10 patch (one with editor). Have not noticed any slowdowns during battles.

Offline version is limited to 1 player and 3 AIs. Not sure how online game play would be - don't have a key. Maybe playing against 7 AIs will lag.
 

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Lovely to see a title with proper level of detail at the medium setting. The lastest crop of games from the past years, usually looked like crud when you even get to medium settings.
 

blacksci

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Im gonna agree with these other folks up above. Sure the 5770 is a lower newer card, but most of us are rockin older cards like the 4870. Why not review with some of those, instead of just givin a review with a new card that just came out a few months ago ? No offense inteded to Toms, i read the page everyday, but lets be more realistic here. Those cards just came out,a greater majority of your reader arent even using them yet.
 

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Hopefully they've gotten around to fixing that nastiness in Win7 so I don't have to leave my display settings window open in order to get the colors to display correctly like I have to do when playing the original StarCraft.

Oh... and thank goodness for the widescreen options now!
 

tyralyon

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[citation][nom]Ragnar-Kon[/nom]This should be 48 fps, not 78. Damn lack of edit.[/citation]
You can actually edit. Look just above where the comments start:
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Read the comments on the forums

In the forums you can edit.
 

dragonsqrrl

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A good performance preview, but why are the GTX 480 and 470 absent? They weren't included in your previous review either (Aliens vs Predator). I know it takes time to test and write up one of these articles, but its already been a month since your initial review of the GTX 400 series. Even if the benchmarking for this preview was well underway at that time, couldn't someone have tacked on a benchmark for the GTX 480 or 470 sometime in the following month? Or did you guys have to return your review cards? Just curious what the problem is...

In any case, it's not a big deal. StarCraft II in its current form seems relatively CPU bound, and adding the GTX 400 cards to the preview probably wouldn't have affected the charts anyway.
 

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I guess every competitive match will be played on low setting since visibility is a lot better. They should have had only one setting like in the original, at least for MP.
 
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