12th August 2021 - Specs
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Official Minimum Requirements
- Operating System :Windows® XP/Windows Vista®/Windows® 7/Windows® 8 (Updated with the latest Service Packs) with DirectX® 9.0c
- Processor:Intel® Pentium® D or AMD
- Athlon™ 64 X2
- Video:NVIDIA® GeForce® 7600 GT or ATI™ Radeon™ X800 XT or better
- Memory:1.5 GB RAM
- Storage:
- 20 GB available HD space
- Internet:
- Broadband Internet connection
- Media:
- DVD-ROM drive
- Resolution:
- 1024X768 minimum display resolution
Official Recommended Requirements
- Operating System:Windows® 7/Windows® 8 (latest service pack)
- Processor:Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E6600 or AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 5000+ or better
- Video:NVIDIA® GeForce® 8800 GT (512 MB) or ATI™ Radeon™ HD 4850 or better
- Memory:2 GB RAM
- Storage:20 GB available HD space
- Internet:
- Broadband Internet connection
- Media:
- DVD-ROM drive
- Resolution:
- 1024X768 minimum display resolution
Your PC will need a graphics card thats as powerful as a GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB/Radeon HD 4850 and it should be paired with either a Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5000+/Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4GHz CPU to match the StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm recommended system specs. This PC setup will deliver 60 Frames Per Second on High graphics settings on 1080p monitor resolution. For your PC to completely meet the recommended requirements you will also need 2 GB system memory. You should also have 1.5 GB system memory for min specs. You will require a DirectX 9.00 GPU.
FPS System Benchmark
200+
FPS
High
Graphics Card
How well optimised is StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm for PC?
8
8
Where does StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm rank in the list of the most demanding games?
Genres:
Strategy
StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm System Requirements
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Minimum
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Recommended
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| Graphics Card | ||
| VRAM |
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| RAM |
1.5 GB
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2 GB
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| OS |
Windows XP 32-bit
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Windows 7 32-bit
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| DirectX |
9
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9
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| HDD Space |
20 GB
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20 GB
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StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm PC Release Date:
12 Mar 2013
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could i play this comfortably (high fps, no lag) on medium graphics settings?
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Yes, medium should run fine. You can try turning some graphics settings up to high, your resolution will help in this case.
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hey, can i run this game? thanks :)
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what settings can i play this on?
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How many FPS? and i play on 1360 x 768
I hope High settings.
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MORE LIKE ULTRA :D
enjoy
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can i play this in ultra?
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yes :)
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can i play this on ultra?
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why u even asking??? yes ofcorse
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Guys If I directly buy heart of the swarm..does it include wings of liberty?
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You have to buy both.
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Will I still be able to play it without wings of liberty? because I wanna play online
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Nope. I checked. You have to have WoL to play this online. Check it yourself.
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thx man you owe me alot..thumps up for you
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Starcraft is only Internetplay ? or Singleplayer to ?
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You have campaing for singleplayer :)
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but you need internet connection
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can i max this?
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Yes bro with full AA
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Thanks man! :D
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Lol my rig is exactly the same except the graphics are much, much worse. And I can play Starcraft II at high settings with 30+ FPS.
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sorry but can i run this?
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I can max this game at 1080p with all settings at ultra without any AA as I do not see the difference between no AA and AA on. Just throwing that out there for everyone. :)
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Also, let it be noted that my old Geforce 6600 GT - 128mb RAM, AMD Athlon XP 3200+ and 1GB of RAM was able to play this at low 720 HD
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what settings do you suggest me for nice stable FPS on both 1v1 and 4v4 (and arcade)
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On that res. you can max it but 2-4x AA for 45 fps.
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your processor might be causing trouble in big fights
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this game doesn't use more than 2 cores and his cpu is a great dual core so yeah, it will be slower than some quad cores and some other dual cores, but you'll be fine.
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can i max this game at 60 fps i really like the looks of the game
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Runs best on Intel, but yeah you probably could. I can run it on Extreme Settings and still have 60+ fps. Even higher in certain Arcade games.
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the only difference between amd and intel is that intel has higher minimum fps but cud i definitely run above 60
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on default sc2 i got like 80 fps when i was versing 4 enemy troops is that good for max settings
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Sorry, what do you mean by "higher minimum fps"? The reason Intel runs better on this game is because Intel CPUs are lightly threaded, compared to AMD being heavily threaded. I never said you couldn't run it at max settings either.
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o well at the base i get 130 fps on max so will i run good in hevy battle and people say intels better and when i say higher min fps is that it wont dip as low as amd will
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max 60+?
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Yup.
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Damn it on some levels my gpu usage is only 20-40 % am i really so bottlenecked by my cpu on this game O-0.
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no way. you should be to max it out all the way. Your processor is absolutel fine. Probably a driver problem
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Or if it uses only 2 cores like they say half of my cpu is sleeping too. Since crysis 3 gpu usage stays 99%
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I wish eSports and especially Starcraft get more appretiated in pubilc.
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Frames and settings can i run this on?
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max in 1v1. In 4v4 your processor might make it lag in big engagements, but you should be fine with max all the way
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Does this damn game use only 2 cores or what my fps dropped to 40 and gpu usage was only 40-50 % ?.
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Yeah, it's limited to two cores.
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Frames/Settings?
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Can someone check the FPS for me it says i can play it smoothly at High Settings. IDK what smoothly is for this website so if someone else could get me the FPS. Oh yeah and for Ultra settings too.
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Am I able to play this?
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Select your processor, RAM and GPU from the list just above the comments section and find out. My rig can run it on High.
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You will be able to play this at low-mid. I suggest u keep at low for most of the time for good frame rate.
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can i run it? settings? FPS?
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