Terribly Slow SC2

Jacobine

United States174 Posts

April 24 2010 00:41 GMT

Computer Specs:
Windows vista service pack 1
Intel Core Duo E 4500 @ 2.20 GHZ
2 GB Ram
Nvidia Geforce 7100/ Nvidia Nforce 630i (I know i know it's integrated to the motherboard and sucks.. parents bought it for me !)
187 GB of free harddisk space.

So I'm a computer newb, but i bought this comp 3 years ago and thought it'd run SC2 decent. It's beyond slow. I'm running at like 10 FPS right now with everything on low..... Is it my comp? and if it was what would be some decent upgrades to get??

DrivE

United States2554 Posts

April 24 2010 00:44 GMT

its probably your graphics card

Grobyc

Canada18410 Posts

April 24 2010 00:57 GMT

90% sure it's your graphics card. Your processor is fine for medium(according to FragKrag's thread), RAM is sufficient, and harddrive space is obviously sufficient as well. Unless your resolution is wonky or something...

Shield

Bulgaria4824 Posts

April 24 2010 00:57 GMT

You didn't mention how much MB your nvidia has.
So change your SC2 graphics settings according to your system:

128 MB - Low
256 MB - Medium
512 MB - High
1 GB - Ultra

* I'm writing these by memory, so don't blame me if I'm wrong...

Jacobine

United States174 Posts

April 24 2010 01:01 GMT

ah ok, how do i find out the memory of the card??? it's a stupid imbedded one... oh and any suggestions?? I know it can be a pain upgrading the card when you have one imbedded because they conflict like crazy or is there ane asy way to bypass that?

Duke

United States1106 Posts

April 24 2010 01:10 GMT

if you have a friend with a graphics card you could test with before buying one, to see if there will be issues switching over, that could work. i had issues with my old comp but i had heard/thought it was more because of it being a Dell rather than the problem solely being with the integrated card

SilentCrono

United States1420 Posts

April 24 2010 01:15 GMT

video card is your problem, dude.

SichuanPanda

Canada1542 Posts

April 24 2010 02:40 GMT

I have a card two steps up from this on my lan rig and it can only handle low with a few things on medium. Pick yourself up a GTS 250/260/270 they are reasonably priced and will more than satisfy the requirements for SC2.