All right, time to take the plunge (PC build advice)

[Xen]

Snesboy said:

Soleron said:

Snesboy said:

Xen said:

Snesboy said:

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You had max settings above 30FPS in 4v4 with tons of armies running around fighting each other with that? Yeah, right.

4v4?

That's just chaos :P

That's what I thought :P

The thing is that SC2 looks almost as good on Low settings. And it doesn't need 30fps to look and play smoothly, more like 15-20.

And on that, 4v4 is smooth on my five-year-old Intel integrated graphics on my laptop. So essentially any computer made in the last 5 years can play SC2 to its full gameplay potential.

Specs of that laptop?

You can guess by its age... it's probably a Pentium M or a Core 2 Solo, at stretch... and integrated graphics aren't anything to write home about.