Hello all,
My friends and I like to play SC2 in our college apartment. We have two computers that are very good at it, a laptop that is passable, and an old Pentium 4 sitting in my room that is currently serving as a nightstand.
We are considering upgrading the Pentium 4 so that it could be an extra SC2 machine, since more than three of us regularly enjoy this activity. Its specs are as follows:
Intel D865PERL motherboard
Pentium 4 3.2 GHZ processor
2.5 GB of RAM
An open AGP slot
Windows XP
400 Watt (I think) PSU
The upgrade we have in mind is a Radeon 4650 1GB AGP card, which would run us around $80.
Although this would be above SC2's requirements, I would like input from someone with experience on a platform similar (or close to) this before we actually dive in and drop $80 on not much bang for our buck.
Would this computer be able to run the game on low settings in 4v4 matches? I have few doubts concerning the video card; the processor is my main worry.
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Honestly it's kinda hard to say you should spend $80 to upgrade a machine that old, but it's your budget and not mine
I played sc2 beta on a p4 something on low settings 1v1 and its sluggish when food gets high/in battle i wouldn't think 4v4 would be playable after a minute in a game.
Thanks!
The worst of them, the last mission in the Protoss mini campaign, even on minimum settings I had to anticipate the mothership's warp in and move units out of the arrival point. When it appeared the first time and put that AOE cloaking field on my army, the computer simply quit.