StarCraft 2 System Requirements

With the beta out to the select few who decided to pre-order StarCraft 2, the rest of us can prepare by making sure our system can run the game smoothly. Thankfully Blizzard has done a great job at making the game run very well, similar to World of Warcraft on a vast number of different computer configurations. Anyway, here are the minimum and recommended system specs to play StarCraft 2:

PC Requirements

PC Minimum System Requirements*:

• Windows® XP/Windows Vista®/Windows® 7 (Updated with the latest Service Packs) with DirectX® 9.0c
• 2.6 GHz Pentium® IV or equivalent AMD Athlon® processor
• 128 MB PCIe NVIDIA® GeForce® 6600 GT or ATI Radeon® 9800 PRO video card or better
• 12 GB available HD space
• 1 GB RAM (1.5 GB required for Windows Vista®/Windows® 7 users)
• DVD-ROM drive
• Broadband Internet connection
• 1024X720 minimum display resolution

PC Recommended System Requirements:

• Windows Vista®/Windows® 7
• Dual Core 2.4Ghz Processor
• 2 GB RAM
• 512 MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8800 GTX or ATI Radeon® HD 3870 or better

*Note: Due to potential programming changes, the Minimum System Requirements for this game may change over time.

Mac Requirements

Mac Minimum System Requirements:

• Mac® OS X 10.5.8, 10.6.2 or newer
• Intel® Processor
• NVIDIA® GeForce® 8600M GT or ATI Radeon® X1600 or better
• 12 GB available HD space
• 2 GB Ram
• DVD-ROM drive
• Broadband Internet connection
• 1024X720 minimum display resolution

Mac Recommended System Requirements:

• Intel® Core 2 Duo processor
• 4 GB system RAM
• NVIDIA® GeForce® 9600M GT or ATI Radeon® HD 4670 or better

For those of you who do just barely meet the minimum requirements, check back here soon as Next Level Gamer will have a StarCraft 2 Optimization guide very soon.