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Originally Posted by Bobblehead
A buddy of mine who has 8 cores in his box (a Mac) was watching specifically for how the load was disbursed while playing SC2 and said he saw all the cores being utilized fairly equally. He had thought the same thing as you about 2 cores, but that isn't what he saw. Although he did say he thought his system was constrained by the CPU so that may have muddies his results.
I have a quad core system but haven't picked up SC2 yet, so I haven't checked for myself.
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I'm fairly ignorant about core usage on windows, does Windows XP/Vista handle multiple cores properly? I'm fairly certain Windows 7 does well enough but it's hard for me to accurately test since I'm too cheap to buy more then a Core2Duo for my PC.
Starcraft 2 runs fine with the default setting of "High" on my PC:
2.4gHz Core2Duo
4GB DDR2 Ram (I may have this wrong.. been a while)
Radeon 4850
250gig 7200 HDD Seagate
I can scale it up to Ultra and play at a rate of about 20-25 FPS, but I prefer being over 30 FPS at least. Thankfully Starcraft 2 isn't a game where FPS will affect your performance.
Also gave the game a spin on my Macbook Pro for fun. It's very playable at the lowest graphics settings (prob one step up too) on the laptop when it's set to using "Energy Saver" graphics (the recent graphics update helps a lot). I'm sure enabling the performance graphics card would be a significant boost - but Macs are for work, PC's are for games.