Starcraft 2 System Requirements

Starcraft 2 System Requirements - full specs, system checker and the gaming PC setup you need.

Starcraft 2 minimum requirements

Memory: 2 GB
Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 2600 XT
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo U7600
File Size: 30 GB
OS: Windows® 7 / Windows® 8 / Windows® 10

Starcraft 2 recommended specs

Memory: 4 GB
Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 7790
CPU: Intel Core i5-650
File Size: 30 GB
OS: Windows® 10 64-bit

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Can I Run Starcraft 2?

The Starcraft 2 system requirements require at least 30 GB of free storage space. Provided that you have at least an AMD Radeon HD 2600 XT graphics card you can play the game, but a GPU equivalent to an AMD Radeon HD 7790 is recommended. An Intel Core 2 Duo U7600 CPU is the minimum CPU you can run Starcraft 2 on. An Intel Core i5-650 is recommended however. Starcraft 2 system requirements state that you will need at least 2 GB of RAM, but ideally have 4.

There is no Starcraft 2 Steam release, however the game is free to play and available through the Battle.net launcher.

Starcraft 2 will run on PC system with Windows® 7 / Windows® 8 / Windows® 10 and upwards. Additionally it has a Mac version.

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Starcraft 2 FPS - what frame rate can you expect?

How many FPS will I get on Starcraft 2? We reference thousands of reports from PCGameBenchmark users running our FPS tracking app to tell you exactly how Starcraft 2 performs across a range of different settings and resolutions on the most popular PC gaming setups.

What frame rate does Starcraft 2 run at?

Avg FPS	CPU	GPU	RAM
90	Intel Core i9-10850K	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti	16 GB
60	Intel Core i5-3470S	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M	16 GB
45	Intel Core i7-6700HQ	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M	32 GB
42	Intel Core i3-5010U	Intel HD 5500	8 GB
27	Intel Core i7-8565U	NVIDIA GeForce MX130	16 GB

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