StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty System Requirements

Blizzard has published the StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty system requirements for both the PC and Mac versions of the game.

Included in this is both the minimum and recommended system requirements which detail the system specs required to run the real-time strategy game. Hardware and software requirements detailed include the game's operating system, memory/RAM requirements, CPU/processor, graphics card & memory and more. If you do not know your system specs or are unsure if your system meets the developer's specifications there are a number of online utilities, such as Can You Run It, that scan the hardware of your gaming machine and compares it against the published requirements.

Please note that even though your system may meet the Starcraft II system requirements, performance will still vary depending on the resolution, anti-alias, and other graphics/video settings you select in the Video Options of the game.

StarCraft II Minimum PC System Requirements

Spec Requirement
Operating System Windows XP/Vista
CPU 2.6 Ghz Pentium IV or Equivalent AMD Athlon processor
Graphics Card 128MB PCIe Nvidia GeForce 6600GT or ATI Radeon 9800 PRO video card
Memory 1 GB RAM (1.5 GB RAM for Windows Vista OS)
Disk Space 12 GB of free HDD space
Misc Minimum 1024x720 resolution monitor/display

 StarCraft II Recommended PC System Requirements

Spec Requirement
Operating System Windows 7 or newer
CPU Dual Core 2.6 GHz processor (both Intel or AMD)
Graphics Card 512MB PCIe Nvidia GeForce 8800GTX or ATI Radeon HD3870 or better video card
Memory 2 GB RAM
Disk Space 12 GB of free HDD space
Misc Minimum 1024x720 resolution monitor/display

StarCraft II Minimum Mac System Requirements

Spec Requirement
Operating System Mac OS X 10.5.8
CPU Intel Processor
Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT or ATI Radeon X1600 video card
Memory 2 GB RAM
Disk Space 12 GB of free HDD space
Misc Minimum 1024x720 resolution monitor/display

StarCraft II Recommended Mac System Requirements

Spec Requirement
Operating System Mac OS X 10.6.2 or newer
CPU Intel Core 2 Duo processor
Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT or ATI Radeon HD 4670 or better video card
Memory 4 GB RAM
Disk Space 12 GB of free HDD space
Misc Minimum 1024x720 resolution monitor/display

 About StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty is a follow up to the popular StarCraft real-time strategy game from Blizzard Entertainment. Set four years after the events of the last StarCraft expansion, Brood War, it is the first release in a planned trilogy of games that will feature each of the three factions in a single-player story campaign. Wings of Liberty begins with the human Terran faction and shows a future depiction of humans in the StarCraft Universe set in the 25th century. The single-player story campaign includes a total of 26 missions which takes players through the various unit types and strategies of gameplay. Some of these missions are required to move the story forward while others are purely optional.

The multiplayer portion of Starcraft II Wings of Liberty is where the strategic balance of the top real-time strategy game shines. Players will choose from one of the three StarCraft races (Terran, Protoss or Zerg), and battle in online multiplayer skirmishes with up to 8 players. StarCraft II Wings of Liberty also improves upon the proven gameplay mechanics from StarCraft and provides just the right blend of action and strategy to make it one of the best real-time strategy games ever released.

The second chapter in the series, StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm was released in 2013 and covers the Zerg faction in the single-player story campaign while adding new units for all factions in the multiplayer game mode. The final title in the trilogy, StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void centers around the Protoss faction and was released in November 2015.

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