Video Card for Starcraft

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deeznuts

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Building a computer for a buddy's little bro, who plays Starcraft. I tried to look this up, and it looks to be an old ass game. Budget is an issue here, and it needs to be PCIe, so am I safe to assume any video card I can find on PCIe will play this game sufficiently, at 1280x1024?
 
Maybe get a board with integrated graphics if that's all you need. Save yourself some cash. I got a refurbished Tforce last week for $42.
 
The game is all 2D. Theres no models. Its just animated sprites moving around. My 500mhz laptop runs starcraft fine and it has some cheap 8mb graphics card.
 
is there anyway of getting FSAA enabled on that game by force? or even higher resolutions
 
Not to my knowledge. The game maxes out at 800x600. You could try setting AA and AF in the control panel by force, but then the game might not run....don't know cause my StarCraft disc is buried somewhere and I'm too lazy to find it.
 
It's almost like 3D when your zerglings are going up and over the mountainous terrain :cool: .
 
I used to play Starcraft perfectly fine on a Voodoo 3 2000 AGP 2x.

Until the Starcraft: Revolution mod comes out (if ever), you'll be fine with just about any graphics card made after 1998.
 
Starcraft ran great on my TNT1 graphics card.. anything should work.. i would go with integrated if available it is cheapest. Otherwise get the cheapest card compatible with your motherboard and your fine.
 
starcraft looks shitty on an LCD, unless it is a 20 incher with 1600x1200.

native rez issues, the game only runs in 800x600.

either get a CRT, or a lcd with rez that high.

no LCDs with 800x600

any video card will play it.
 
Starcraft will run on pretty much ANY graphics card. I have a dell lappie w/ intel 845G graphics (crap graphics) and it runs sc fine. I have a TNT2 and it runs fine. I cant see any gfx not running it. My 486 lappie on the other hand.......
 
It ran on my old Compaq that was a blazing 300mhz with intergated graphics card.
 
cool, like i said, i don't even know what that game is, just wanted to make sure no new editions or anything. Just wanted to be safe. Thanks guys.
 
deeznuts said:
cool, like i said, i don't even know what that game is, just wanted to make sure no new editions or anything. Just wanted to be safe. Thanks guys.
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Damn dood, u just made me feel real old :D.
 
Starcraft needs 3d acceleration? Starcraft supports resolutions higher than 640x480@256colors? Just use onboard video for it ;)

 
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well i think we found who had the NICE computer setup when they were young
 
My son who's 11 loves starcraft. There's an expansion too I guess. Anyway, like others have said, its basically 2D and the maximum resloution is 800x600. You could probably run it on an onboard nforce 6100 chip. A good buy would be the 7600 so he has some headroom. :D
 
Ocean said:
starcraft looks shitty on an LCD, unless it is a 20 incher with 1600x1200.

native rez issues, the game only runs in 800x600.

either get a CRT, or a lcd with rez that high.

no LCDs with 800x600

any video card will play it.
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I run starcraft on my CRT at 120hz refresh. Looks great. :D
 
I played starcraft with a pentium 133mhz, 4mb video ram (onboard), 1.1gb hard drive, etc.
 
If you have a computer.. you can run the game.. its what? 10 years old now? Last I remember, at release it could run on pretty much any Pentium 2 computer or up..
 
When I bought that game I had a pentium1 100MHz, and 8mb of ram. Only purpose of a video card would be well, if you're mobo doesn't have integrated video, you do need to see. :cool:

I don't know all the geeky terms but would it even be considered hardware accellerated? Your VC might throw up the 2d image for you, but even in this day and age, might just be "rendered" by the cpu. In software.
 
cyks said:
D2:LOD? that game is still alive?

It really is thou...
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D2:LOD actually jumps up to 800x600 from 640x480. It's really nice then ;) . Actually it is a lot better. I played it a bunch last year with a couple friends until I beat Baal a couple times with my mighty Hammerdin.
 
For this game you better get 2 7900gtx's I mean COME ON ;) No just joking but if your friend only wants to play this game then just get a mobo with some sort of "decent" onboard gpu. But if you think he'll want to be playing some 3d games then you can get a decent sub 100 dollar card. I think when I was searching new eggs refurbs I saw lots of used 6600gts for under 90 bucks. That'll be WAY overkill for what you've described he'll be using it for, plus it'll be plenty fast enough to run anything thats out. Of course theres also much cheaper alternatives.
 
magoo said:
My son who's 11 loves starcraft. There's an expansion too I guess. Anyway, like others have said, its basically 2D and the maximum resloution is 800x600. You could probably run it on an onboard nforce 6100 chip. A good buy would be the 7600 so he has some headroom. :D
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Brood War is the expansion.

you all forget 1998 that fast?!? come on, I remember buying the game NEW!
 
lol, anything could run starcraft. My p1 + 1mb graphic card could run that game with no problems. If your bro doesn't play many graphically intense games (like FEAR or something), i'd say go buy an integrated video, nothing better than a GMA 950
 
ironforge said:
I run starcraft on my CRT at 120hz refresh. Looks great. :D
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that's the sweet spot for enabling 3d with shutter glasses, ooh, ahh. :D

infested command centers everywhere, wee.
 
Don't waste any money on this. Look for the cheapest possible video card at newegg.com or at your local CompUSA. It will run the archaic game perfectly fine. You should enjoy the gameplay, not the graphics on this game.
 
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