Starcraft 2 System Requirements

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?

Here are the typical frame rate samples

Avg FPS	CPU	GPU	RAM
90	Intel Core i9-10850K	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti	16 GB
82	Intel Core i7-8700	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060	16 GB
42	Intel Core i3-5010U	Intel HD 5500	8 GB
33	Intel Core i7-8550U	Intel UHD Graphics 620	16 GB
27	Intel Core i7-8565U	NVIDIA GeForce MX130	16 GB

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