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Edited by Machkhan on 1/5/12 4:28 PM (PST)
The minimum system requirements for StarCraft II are as follows:
Mac Minimum System Requirements: Mac Recommended System Requirements: Recommended video cards for low: Recommended video cards for medium: Recommended video cards for high: UNSUPPORTED: (If you have any of these then your system is not supported) Supported only in bootcamp/Windows |
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7/27/2010
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Does Blizzard not realize that recommended is supposed to mean that if you have this configuration you should be able to have all your settings at their highest? I know it's an argument in semantics but I'm starting to believe that Blizzard has something against Mac users. I guess I'm just disgruntled at how buggy this game is after all these years of waiting and all the time they spent beta testing. And don't get me started on them forcing us to be online to play!
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Why would the NVidia GeForce 7600 GT work in windows mode and not Mac? Why would it not be supported? Its not that old of an iMac card. The GeForce 7 has too many bugs to be supported. This is not the case on Windows. We tried to support the GeForce 7 series for many years but when Apple/Nvidia stopped fixing bugs for it, we had to stop supporting it too. |
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7/28/2010
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Little question about video cards and performance. Being one of many macbook pro users with performance issues, I've been testing various combinations of settings, and I came to the conclusion that it was mainly the shader setting that caused problems.
Question is : while my knowledge of hardware is limited, is it possible that some graphic / video cards (like the 330M or the 9600M, which are named often in the performance problems) could have problems with specific technologies used in the shader setting (like specular maps and the like). |
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Well, lets just remember this folks: OSX has terrible graphics drivers. They are much slower than their windows counterparts. That would explain why the 7600 GT, which should be perfectly capable of playing SC2 with at least medium settings cannot be played.
If you guys seriously want better performance, trying playing SC2 on bootcamp. I have a radeon 4850 on an iMac C2D. On the OSX version, I put all the settings on high, and the game would suffer. On Windows however, I could put all the settings on ultra, save for textures, and it would perform better than the mac version with high settings. It is a pain in the butt to have to boot into windows, but if you folks are seriously concerned about performance, you should really consider playing SC2 in windows. I will be playing SC2 on windows until the mac version performs better than it currently does. |
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I'm running the same system.
4GB 1067 MHz DDR3 RAM 2.53 GHz Core 2 Duo NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT (512MB) Constant lag when playing campaign -- all Medium (recommended by the game) settings. I was really excited to play this, now I'm just disappointed. |
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They really should add to the Mac System Requirements, "Case-insensitive File System" .. Just a heads up if anyone is having a problem as soon as the game is installed and tries to update.
Work arounds.. Backup, reformat your system again as a case-insensitive file system, and reinstall OSX. Backing up could be problematic as you may have some files or folders that are named similarly (except for their case) and you'll have to track those down before backing things up. I did a manual backup instead of Time Machine so I could find all the discrepancies first. Create a new disk image with Disk Utility (and give it a case-insensitive file system) and install SC2 on that. If you create a link to the StarCraft II.app on your dock, in your Applications or anywhere, OSX should automatically mount the new disk image for you so you won't have to worry about that. This is the easy way out. |
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With a 320M will I have better performance in windows? I'm using low settings right now in OS X.
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i have a pavillion dv9000z notebook with a nvidia 7600 on board and vista so and the employee earlier said it should work on windows but the game does'nt even try to run instead it just says the graphics drivers are not supported and i cant find another driver for it anywhere
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Edited by MrBoogeyman on 8/6/10 9:29 PM (PDT)
UNSUPPORTED: Why is Mac OSX 10.6.3 Unsupported? I get major graphic issues with 10.6.4 |
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Just wondering...
yes, the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M why isn't my video card on any of the lists? its not recommended, supported, or unsupported. kinda makes sense, though. to play, I have to set all graphics settings (even my resolution) to the lowest possible to get a decent fps. well I guess I'll just keep waiting for that magic OS X software update that will make sc2 realize that I have a video card. |
