• Log InLog In
  • Register
Liquid`
Team Liquid Liquipedia
EST 23:44
CET 05:44
KST 13:44
  • Home
  • Forum
  • Calendar
  • Streams
  • Liquipedia
  • Features
  • Store
  • EPT
  • TL+
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Smash
  • Heroes
  • Counter-Strike
  • Overwatch
  • Liquibet
  • Fantasy StarCraft
  • TLPD
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Blogs
Forum Sidebar
Events/Features
News
Featured News
RSL Revival - 2025 Season Finals Preview8RSL Season 3 - Playoffs Preview0RSL Season 3 - RO16 Groups C & D Preview0RSL Season 3 - RO16 Groups A & B Preview2TL.net Map Contest #21: Winners12
Community News
Weekly Cups (Dec 15-21): Classic wins big, MaxPax & Clem take weeklies3ComeBackTV's documentary on Byun's Career !11Weekly Cups (Dec 8-14): MaxPax, Clem, Cure win4Weekly Cups (Dec 1-7): Clem doubles, Solar gets over the hump1Weekly Cups (Nov 24-30): MaxPax, Clem, herO win2
StarCraft 2
General
ComeBackTV's documentary on Byun's Career ! Team TLMC #5: Winners Announced! What's the best tug of war? The Grack before Christmas Weekly Cups (Dec 15-21): Classic wins big, MaxPax & Clem take weeklies
Tourneys
OSC Season 13 World Championship $5,000+ WardiTV 2025 Championship $100 Prize Pool - Winter Warp Gate Masters Showdow Sparkling Tuna Cup - Weekly Open Tournament Winter Warp Gate Amateur Showdown #1
Strategy
Custom Maps
Map Editor closed ?
External Content
Mutation # 506 Warp Zone Mutation # 505 Rise From Ashes Mutation # 504 Retribution Mutation # 503 Fowl Play
Brood War
General
BGH Auto Balance -> http://bghmmr.eu/ What are former legends up to these days? BW General Discussion How soO Began His ProGaming Dreams Klaucher discontinued / in-game color settings
Tourneys
[Megathread] Daily Proleagues [BSL21] LB SemiFinals - Saturday 21:00 CET [BSL21] WB & LB Finals - Sunday 21:00 CET Small VOD Thread 2.0
Strategy
Simple Questions, Simple Answers Game Theory for Starcraft Current Meta Fighting Spirit mining rates
Other Games
General Games
Nintendo Switch Thread Mechabellum Stormgate/Frost Giant Megathread Beyond All Reason Path of Exile
Dota 2
Official 'what is Dota anymore' discussion
League of Legends
Heroes of the Storm
Simple Questions, Simple Answers Heroes of the Storm 2.0
Hearthstone
Deck construction bug Heroes of StarCraft mini-set
TL Mafia
Mafia Game Mode Feedback/Ideas Survivor II: The Amazon Sengoku Mafia TL Mafia Community Thread
Community
General
US Politics Mega-thread Russo-Ukrainian War Thread 12 Days of Starcraft The Games Industry And ATVI Things Aren’t Peaceful in Palestine
Fan Clubs
White-Ra Fan Club
Media & Entertainment
Anime Discussion Thread [Manga] One Piece
Sports
2024 - 2026 Football Thread Formula 1 Discussion
World Cup 2022
Tech Support
Computer Build, Upgrade & Buying Resource Thread
TL Community
The Automated Ban List TL+ Announced Where to ask questions and add stream?
Blogs
National Diversity: A Challe…
TrAiDoS
I decided to write a webnov…
DjKniteX
James Bond movies ranking - pa…
Topin
Thanks for the RSL
Hildegard
Saturation point
Uldridge
Customize Sidebar...

Website Feedback

Closed Threads



Active: 1309 users

Post your Rig [Will it run SC2? - Page 111

Forum Index > Closed
Post a Reply
Prev 1 109 110 111
Mathewep2010
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States63 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-08 06:02:38
August 08 2010 02:06 GMT
#2201
What is the main requirement to run the game in all high settings with just a few in ultra? is it mainly just having a good graphics card/processor?
EliteAzn
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States661 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-11 02:56:11
August 11 2010 02:55 GMT
#2202
This is all i have right now:
OPERATING SYSTEM:
Windows 2.6.1.7600
CPU TYPE:
Intel® Core™2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
CPU SPEED (GHZ):
2.42
SYSTEM MEMORY (GB):
2
VIDEO CARD MODEL:
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS
VIDEO CARD DRIVER:
nvd3dum.dll
DESKTOP RESOLUTION:
1680x1050
HARD DISK SIZE (GB):
232.77
HARD DISK FREE SPACE (GB):
163.3

I have having AWFUL single player lag (near the beginning of either level or restart or save spot) Having some lag issues in Multiplayer too (usually just beginning pause for like 3 seconds)

Any suggestions? Thanks

Edit: Medium Settings
(╯`Д´)╯︵ ┻━┻ High Five! _o /\ o_
Jenslyn87
Profile Joined May 2010
Denmark527 Posts
August 11 2010 03:14 GMT
#2203
Elite: Imo something must be wrong... you should be able to run the game just fine on medium! You could try to run 3D mark vantage and see how your computer stacks up to similar configurations. Maybe that could help determine if your hardware or installation is faulty in some way
Hmmm, I wonder what terran is doiAAAAARGH BANSHEEEEES
nam nam
Profile Joined June 2010
Sweden4672 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-11 03:16:17
August 11 2010 03:15 GMT
#2204
[image loading]
EliteAzn
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States661 Posts
August 11 2010 03:16 GMT
#2205
On August 11 2010 12:14 Jenslyn87 wrote:
Elite: Imo something must be wrong... you should be able to run the game just fine on medium! You could try to run 3D mark vantage and see how your computer stacks up to similar configurations. Maybe that could help determine if your hardware or installation is faulty in some way


How do i run a 3D mark vantage? I'm not sure what to do here -_-'...I'm not THAT tech savvy

Thanks!
(╯`Д´)╯︵ ┻━┻ High Five! _o /\ o_
Jenslyn87
Profile Joined May 2010
Denmark527 Posts
August 11 2010 16:16 GMT
#2206
On August 11 2010 12:16 EliteAzn wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 11 2010 12:14 Jenslyn87 wrote:
Elite: Imo something must be wrong... you should be able to run the game just fine on medium! You could try to run 3D mark vantage and see how your computer stacks up to similar configurations. Maybe that could help determine if your hardware or installation is faulty in some way


How do i run a 3D mark vantage? I'm not sure what to do here -_-'...I'm not THAT tech savvy

Thanks!

It's a synethetic benchmark that tests to see how well your system runs in games

Just download and run it. You can try posting your scores here, and we'll see if they're up to par
Hmmm, I wonder what terran is doiAAAAARGH BANSHEEEEES
silencesc
Profile Joined July 2010
United States464 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-11 16:26:18
August 11 2010 16:23 GMT
#2207
AMD Phenom x4 965 Black edition
Asus Crosshair Formula IV
6GB Corsair Dominator
2x1.5 TB WD Caviar Black
XFX 5870 1GB GDDR5
ASUS Sonar Sound card

Edit:

I run Win 7, Vista and Ubuntu in different partitions (also CentOS and Fedora, but those are just for server OS's), OS X on VM Ware Enterprise. Also, resolution is 1950x1280 (27" samsung) with a 23" samsung as an auxiliary.

It runs seamlessly on Ultra.
Real Men Proxy Gate | TEAM LIQUID HWITINGGGG!! PROUD MEMBER OF UC DAVIS CSL TEAM | "If you don't give a shit about what gum you eat, buy Stride" - Liquid`Tyler on SotG 4/19/2011
silencesc
Profile Joined July 2010
United States464 Posts
August 11 2010 16:27 GMT
#2208
On August 11 2010 11:55 EliteAzn wrote:
This is all i have right now:
OPERATING SYSTEM:
Windows 2.6.1.7600
CPU TYPE:
Intel® Core™2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
CPU SPEED (GHZ):
2.42
SYSTEM MEMORY (GB):
2
VIDEO CARD MODEL:
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS
VIDEO CARD DRIVER:
nvd3dum.dll
DESKTOP RESOLUTION:
1680x1050
HARD DISK SIZE (GB):
232.77
HARD DISK FREE SPACE (GB):
163.3

I have having AWFUL single player lag (near the beginning of either level or restart or save spot) Having some lag issues in Multiplayer too (usually just beginning pause for like 3 seconds)

Any suggestions? Thanks



Edit: Medium Settings



Your rig is fine, just upgrade the RAM and it should run a lot faster. Also, try a defragment (that always makes my drive go faster) good luck!
Real Men Proxy Gate | TEAM LIQUID HWITINGGGG!! PROUD MEMBER OF UC DAVIS CSL TEAM | "If you don't give a shit about what gum you eat, buy Stride" - Liquid`Tyler on SotG 4/19/2011
woopsies
Profile Joined August 2010
United States1 Post
Last Edited: 2010-08-16 11:28:08
August 16 2010 11:26 GMT
#2209
This is what I have so far:
MOBO - Asus P5KC
OS - Windows 7
CPU - intel dual core E2200 at 2.20ghz
CPU spd - 2.20ghz
Memory - 6g DDR2
Graphic card - Nvidia 9500GT 512mb
Desktop resolution - 1680x1050 (recommended)
HD - 500gb
PSU - think its a 500w (don't know what the volt is)

At the moment, I do not know what to upgrade first. Everything else is good though right? What should I do with my settings or what should I upgrade first? Every time I play sc2, 1v1 or more and custom games, it gives me an humongous lag spike and also choppy... reallly bad...
Tell me what should I do?
bulge
Profile Joined July 2010
161 Posts
August 16 2010 11:44 GMT
#2210
for anyone out there with a pentium D, i had

pentium D 2.66 ghz
2gb 533 mhz DDR2
nvidia geforce 6600 agp

which runs 1v1 fine, but anything over that and it gets really bad. 3v3 is unplayable

interestingly, upgrading the motherboard and graphics to an ati 5750 (about 5 generations newer) did not boost performance. however, switching over to a bottom line dual core e5300 (also 2.6ghz) made a world of a difference.

bottom line, if you have a pentium D, buy a new cpu.
Seraph.yongweihua
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada224 Posts
August 16 2010 12:17 GMT
#2211
On August 16 2010 20:44 bulge wrote:
for anyone out there with a pentium D, i had

pentium D 2.66 ghz
2gb 533 mhz DDR2
nvidia geforce 6600 agp

which runs 1v1 fine, but anything over that and it gets really bad. 3v3 is unplayable

interestingly, upgrading the motherboard and graphics to an ati 5750 (about 5 generations newer) did not boost performance. however, switching over to a bottom line dual core e5300 (also 2.6ghz) made a world of a difference.

bottom line, if you have a pentium D, buy a new cpu.


Dude how do you deal with zerg and the creep? I can't imagine how much lag that must give you.
RushGG
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United Kingdom212 Posts
August 16 2010 15:22 GMT
#2212
OS: Windows 7 64bit
Cpu: AMD Phenom II X4 B50 @ 3.4Ghz (unlocked from 2->4 cores)
Mobo: ASUS M4A77T
Memory: 4gb Kingston Hyper-X DDR3 1333Mhz
Graphics: EVGA 1Gb GTX 460 SuperClocked
Hard Drives: 500Gb Seagate 7200RPM
PSU: OCZ Stealth Xtream 500W

Built this for around £460, planning on upgrading to an SLI mobo, a 2nd GTX 460 and a Corsair 750/850W PSU at a later date.

Runs SC2 on ultra @ 1920x1080 extremely well :-)
~ 안녕, 저는 현재 한국어를 배우는 중이에요 :D ~ Follow me on Twitter @RushGeeGee
Lokian
Profile Joined March 2010
United States699 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-16 15:55:04
August 16 2010 15:52 GMT
#2213
OS: Windows 7 32 bit
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4, 3.00Ghz 2.99Ghz
Memory: 1.50GB
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900XT
Hard Drive: WDC ATA 80GB(OS), Maxtor ATA 189GB(Storage)

I invested $120 on this machine via craigslist/ebay.

It is no doubt in my mind that it cannot run Starcraft 2 very well. I also try my best to do video editing on this computer but the limit to what I can do is very minimal.

I've been meaning to get a new machine. I can't upgrade this old one at all. My motherboard doesn't even have a PCI-E slot...

My budget for a new computer is around $600-$1100. I prefer if I can get something cheap but also very efficient. I want to be able to do video-editing and 3d modeling(not professionally but standard at least!)

I'm looking at an i5 Processor, which is about $200. I don't know how costly a motherboard/cards are comparably... I can only ask for some help...

Supposedly, the processor/video card costs around the same...

i5 CPU: $200
motherboard(IDK which ones are good?): $150-$200
Graphics Card: $150-$200?

That's already 600 under the drain... As far as what kind of RAM/PSU I need.. idk... And I'm a complete newbie at buying hardware thats more than $100. I'm afraid of heating issues and stuff that I hear a lot of stories about...

Watch my gaming channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/BedinSpace
RushGG
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United Kingdom212 Posts
August 16 2010 16:40 GMT
#2214
I'd go for an AMD Phenom II X6 over i5 tbh, same sort of price but much better performance.
~ 안녕, 저는 현재 한국어를 배우는 중이에요 :D ~ Follow me on Twitter @RushGeeGee
Fruscainte
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
4596 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-16 16:47:02
August 16 2010 16:46 GMT
#2215
On August 16 2010 20:26 woopsies wrote:
This is what I have so far:
MOBO - Asus P5KC
OS - Windows 7
CPU - intel dual core E2200 at 2.20ghz
CPU spd - 2.20ghz
Memory - 6g DDR2
Graphic card - Nvidia 9500GT 512mb
Desktop resolution - 1680x1050 (recommended)
HD - 500gb
PSU - think its a 500w (don't know what the volt is)

At the moment, I do not know what to upgrade first. Everything else is good though right? What should I do with my settings or what should I upgrade first? Every time I play sc2, 1v1 or more and custom games, it gives me an humongous lag spike and also choppy... reallly bad...
Tell me what should I do?


Definitely upgrade your CPU first IMO

It's not shit, considering I run an Intel E5200 @ 2.5GHz (no OC) and I run this game on near-maxed settings with 3D. But you should upgrade it nonetheless IMO.

And I dont really know Nvidia cards, but I run an ATI Radeon 4850 HD which goes about 80-90 USD on Newegg and can run all the GPU intensive settings on this game at Ultra. So you should probably get the Nvidia equivalent of that too.
tofucake
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Hyrule19184 Posts
August 16 2010 16:53 GMT
#2216
On August 17 2010 00:52 Lokian wrote:
OS: Windows 7 32 bit
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4, 3.00Ghz 2.99Ghz
Memory: 1.50GB
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900XT
Hard Drive: WDC ATA 80GB(OS), Maxtor ATA 189GB(Storage)

I invested $120 on this machine via craigslist/ebay.

It is no doubt in my mind that it cannot run Starcraft 2 very well. I also try my best to do video editing on this computer but the limit to what I can do is very minimal.

I've been meaning to get a new machine. I can't upgrade this old one at all. My motherboard doesn't even have a PCI-E slot...

My budget for a new computer is around $600-$1100. I prefer if I can get something cheap but also very efficient. I want to be able to do video-editing and 3d modeling(not professionally but standard at least!)

I'm looking at an i5 Processor, which is about $200. I don't know how costly a motherboard/cards are comparably... I can only ask for some help...

Supposedly, the processor/video card costs around the same...

i5 CPU: $200
motherboard(IDK which ones are good?): $150-$200
Graphics Card: $150-$200?

That's already 600 under the drain... As far as what kind of RAM/PSU I need.. idk... And I'm a complete newbie at buying hardware thats more than $100. I'm afraid of heating issues and stuff that I hear a lot of stories about...


lolwut? How'd you get my old computer's specs? Anyway, FX cards are ancient, and weren't even very good when they were released.

Anyway, for $1000 you can get this (there's a $25 MIR on the SSD):
LITE-ON DVD-R
WD Caviar Black 1TB HDD
Kingston 64GB SSD
Asus M4A88TD-V EVO
Gigabyte Radeon 5830 1GB
G.SKILL 4GB Ripjaw RAM
AMD Phenom II X6 1055T
Cost as of this post: $915.37 + Tax + S&H
Liquipediaasante sana squash banana
Ero-Sennin
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States756 Posts
October 05 2010 02:08 GMT
#2217
Because you tech people are so much smarter than me at any of this stuff, I have come to ask you all a question.

I would love to buy SCII, but for that I'll need a new computer (which mine is 6 years old, it's about time to get a new one anyways).

I'm looking at http://www.bestbuy.com/site/HP - Slimline Desktop / AMD Athlon™ II Dual-Core Processor / 3GB Memory / 640GB Hard Drive/9974673.p?id=1218205379770&skuId=9974673

and http://www.bestbuy.com/site/HP - Pavilion Desktop / AMD Athlon™ II Processor / 4GB Memory / 750GB Hard Drive/1243488.p?id=1218240379197&skuId=1243488

Which would will be able to run SCII better? Note that I'm not looking to play it on the highest setting possible. Anywhere from mid-to-low is fine with me.

Thanks in advance

User was warned for this post
Luck makes talent look like genius.
Hizzo
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States193 Posts
October 05 2010 02:17 GMT
#2218
On August 17 2010 01:40 CurZed wrote:
I'd go for an AMD Phenom II X6 over i5 tbh, same sort of price but much better performance.


Depends which i5 and how much you're overlocking.
HuK HuK HuK HuK HuK HuK HuK HuK HuK
keynest
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States57 Posts
October 05 2010 03:07 GMT
#2219
OS: Windows 7 64bit
Cpu: e2108 Overclocked @3ghz
Memory: ddr2 2GB
Graphics: HD 4850
Hard Drives: WD 640GB 8400rpm

Can run SC2 on high no problem! 2v2 3v3 late games I have some problesm fps wise it drops to 18 to 28. But I don't play them that often, so nothing to complain here.
★Bopeep★ ★Bopeep★ ★Bopeep★ ~
ghermination
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
United States2851 Posts
October 05 2010 03:10 GMT
#2220
On October 05 2010 11:08 Ero-Sennin wrote:
Because you tech people are so much smarter than me at any of this stuff, I have come to ask you all a question.

I would love to buy SCII, but for that I'll need a new computer (which mine is 6 years old, it's about time to get a new one anyways).

I'm looking at http://www.bestbuy.com/site/HP - Slimline Desktop / AMD Athlon™ II Dual-Core Processor / 3GB Memory / 640GB Hard Drive/9974673.p?id=1218205379770&skuId=9974673

and http://www.bestbuy.com/site/HP - Pavilion Desktop / AMD Athlon™ II Processor / 4GB Memory / 750GB Hard Drive/1243488.p?id=1218240379197&skuId=1243488

Which would will be able to run SCII better? Note that I'm not looking to play it on the highest setting possible. Anywhere from mid-to-low is fine with me.

Thanks in advance

There's about a thousand threads about this in the dedicated tech support forum.
Build your own. It's way cheaper and about as difficult as putting together legos.
U Gotta Skate.
Prev 1 109 110 111
Please log in or register to reply.
Live Events Refresh
Next event in 4h 16m
[ Submit Event ]
Live Streams
Refresh
StarCraft 2
RuFF_SC2 298
WinterStarcraft237
NeuroSwarm 149
StarCraft: Brood War
Britney 9632
ZergMaN 126
Shuttle 75
Nal_rA 48
Bale 30
Noble 23
Icarus 7
Dota 2
monkeys_forever437
League of Legends
C9.Mang0556
Other Games
JimRising 586
Mew2King44
Liquid`Ken9
Organizations
Other Games
gamesdonequick1612
StarCraft 2
Blizzard YouTube
StarCraft: Brood War
BSLTrovo
sctven
[ Show 13 non-featured ]
StarCraft 2
• AfreecaTV YouTube
• intothetv
• Kozan
• IndyKCrew
• LaughNgamezSOOP
• Migwel
• sooper7s
StarCraft: Brood War
• RayReign 26
• BSLYoutube
• STPLYoutube
• ZZZeroYoutube
League of Legends
• Lourlo1001
Other Games
• Scarra2786
Upcoming Events
Replay Cast
4h 16m
Wardi Open
7h 16m
OSC
1d 7h
Solar vs MaxPax
ByuN vs Krystianer
Spirit vs TBD
OSC
4 days
Korean StarCraft League
4 days
OSC
5 days
OSC
5 days
OSC
6 days
uThermal 2v2 Circuit
6 days
Liquipedia Results

Completed

CSL Season 19: Qualifier 2
WardiTV 2025
META Madness #9

Ongoing

C-Race Season 1
IPSL Winter 2025-26
BSL Season 21
eXTREMESLAND 2025
SL Budapest Major 2025
ESL Impact League Season 8
BLAST Rivals Fall 2025
IEM Chengdu 2025
PGL Masters Bucharest 2025
Thunderpick World Champ.
CS Asia Championships 2025

Upcoming

CSL 2025 WINTER (S19)
Escore Tournament S1: W2
Escore Tournament S1: W3
BSL 21 Non-Korean Championship
Acropolis #4
IPSL Spring 2026
Bellum Gens Elite Stara Zagora 2026
HSC XXVIII
Big Gabe Cup #3
OSC Championship Season 13
Nations Cup 2026
ESL Pro League Season 23
ESL Pro League Season 23
PGL Cluj-Napoca 2026
IEM Kraków 2026
BLAST Bounty Winter 2026
BLAST Bounty Winter Qual
TLPD

1. ByuN
2. TY
3. Dark
4. Solar
5. Stats
6. Nerchio
7. sOs
8. soO
9. INnoVation
10. Elazer
1. Rain
2. Flash
3. EffOrt
4. Last
5. Bisu
6. Soulkey
7. Mini
8. Sharp
Sidebar Settings...

Advertising | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use | Contact Us

Original banner artwork: Jim Warren
The contents of this webpage are copyright © 2025 TLnet. All Rights Reserved.