I am actually pretty happy with the results from this fact analysis. Both my Desktop and Laptop should be able to run it medium/medium-high settings.

There is a difference between running it smooth and running it smooth though. If you like to play competitive you want to prevent it from ever slowing down below a certain threshold to stay ahead of your opponent(s). For those who are more average players and/or love to play single player the actual performance is bound to another set of expectations: its nice to see the story play out in high detail :)

Well, then you just have a better system than me =P I am not really looking forward to purchasing a new PC just to play my favourite gam,e but what to do?

If anyone is interested in seeing a really good implimentation of the Havok Physics Engine, I'd recommend having a look at the World War 2 RTS game Company of Heroes by Relic Entertainment, very good game with good phyics. The fact that Blizzard have intergrated the same physics engine into Starcraft II is quite exciting to me, also encouraged me to take a look at Company of Heroes's minimums to see the kind of overhead I could expect from the demands of Starcraft.

Indeed, with the graphics they have etc, it could have been much worse. I would assume that there will be a setting on "low, medium, high", as most games have, so people with powerhouse PCs can experience something more.

This is one thing StarCraft I couldn't do, as it was all in 2D.

I don't expect Blizzard are going to throw us for a ring, but I'll keep my nose on what they are up to. I really don't expect they'll go beyond their famed mass market accessability, if they made the Pentium 4 series unable to run the game at minimum levels there will be many niggled customers. I wish I could have taken one of those PCs at the WWI to peices just to see exactly what they had set up there, alas.

I'm happy too, my PC is a little better as the Recommended Specs. Now I just have to hope Diablo 3 is the same

A XPS machine is supposed to be a high quality gaming machine, anything that struggled with Diablo II is either over ten years old or has a major fault with it. I would really phone them up and ask them to take a look at it, especially if your warranty is still good on it.

and the fps drops when the bottom gets really hot.

i recently bought a cooling pad but it's at home and i'm at school til the week end.

i think my warranty expired.

Try keeping your room ventilated well (I'm supposing it's summer there, that time of the year where everything gets hot for your part of the world?) and windows open/airconditioning on. Many PCs struggle with the heat, my old Athlon 64 rig used to be fine in December but come July...nightmare to work with until I installed a pair of chassis fans.

oh boys ;)

Hahaha, that's true! =)

just curious what version? There are some that you can pre-load, but they wont work until their release date later this month.

It’s not out yet man unless you’re talking about MW3.

On xbox there is the last gen/current gen versions pc though you could also get a xbox version.

When that new forza first came out for one day they had the xbox version on the pc store i was like ? what it was odd.

On xbox you can easily download the one version of a game instead of the series version so you run into issues on your series console.

I'm certain it is going to be the Campaign Collection version.

Im surprised too. Starcraft was still a huge name in 2010. It was kinda the only new RTS around and other genres like MOBAs hadn't really kicked off yet. I do remember at the time sentiment around the game was
pretty angry the game was being split into 3 but I doubt that would have impacted sales to that degree

I'm not shocked at all. This was an early example of Blizzard being greedy. Instead of releasing a complete experience, splitting Starcraft 2 in 3 parts so it could make us purchase it 3 times if we wanted to know the whole story and play story mode with the other races.