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StarCraft II Beta System Requirements Revealed

by Tyler Treat Jan 29, 2010 1:54 PM CST
filed under news, pc

Earlier this week, a screen grab showed Blizzard celebrating the completion of the StarCraft II beta. Today, they have revealed the system requirements for the upcoming beta. The specs are surprisingly low.

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
  • 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

[via Inc Gamers]


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One Response to “StarCraft II Beta System Requirements Revealed”

  1. Now if they would only tell us when the beta is…or when the game is coming out.

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  2. Nanderson on January 29th, 2010 at 2:43 PM

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