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3 Justin 3 · 05-03-2010, 05:57 PM

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Originally Posted by FlamesPuck12

We should have a CP tournament.

I can be the rookie who wins it all!

*but I will actually get smoked in the first round. I will set a modern day record for the fastest loss.

malcolmk14 · 05-03-2010, 06:08 PM

If anyone is interested in playing Starcraft 1 I'm down, SC2 doesn't run on my machine yet.

Flames0910 · 05-03-2010, 07:34 PM

does anybody know if futureshop/bestbuy still have keys? I want to order but only if I get a beta key...

It would run on the previous iteration of the macbook pro, right? not sure what kinda horsepower the graphics card has...

Hack&Lube · 05-03-2010, 07:43 PM

I wish there was a way so that two players could control one race.

Have one guy purely work on macro management and the other guy work on micro management, etc. That would be perfect for me since my issue with SC is that I simply cannot do both at once.

Flames0910 · 05-03-2010, 07:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

I wish there was a way so that two players could control one race.

Have one guy purely work on macro management and the other guy work on micro management, etc. That would be perfect for me since my issue with SC is that I simply cannot do both at once.

In WC3 you could enable shared control which meant teammates could help out micro'ing your units. It was big in arranged team 2v2's where you could trust your allies not to noobify you with the access.

I would imagine SC2 has the same feature. Check whatever menu lets you send your ally resources.

I know this isn't exactly what you're looking for, but, if you can find a good partner, it could help.

MonsieurFish · 05-03-2010, 08:07 PM

Just got my beta key today. Hooked the laptop up to my external monitor and tried playing and it was pretty laggy with my graphics card unfortunately. That was with 1680 x 1050 settings, however when I play with the 1280 x 720 settings which is the resolution of my laptop monitor, it works alot better. Not perfect, but the lag is really small, so good enough for me to play properly. My tech specs should be on first page for anyone interested. It's a Dell 1545 Inspiron laptop.

kirant · 05-03-2010, 08:16 PM

My computer can support SCII, but not large maps or online...

Hack&Lube · 05-03-2010, 08:24 PM

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Originally Posted by MonsieurFish

Just got my beta key today. Hooked the laptop up to my external monitor and tried playing and it was pretty laggy with my graphics card unfortunately. That was with 1680 x 1050 settings, however when I play with the 1280 x 720 settings which is the resolution of my laptop monitor, it works alot better. Not perfect, but the lag is really small, so good enough for me to play properly. My tech specs should be on first page for anyone interested. It's a Dell 1545 Inspiron laptop.

Did you try dropping the graphics to lowest settings?

Hack&Lube · 05-03-2010, 08:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Flames0910

In WC3 you could enable shared control which meant teammates could help out micro'ing your units. It was big in arranged team 2v2's where you could trust your allies not to noobify you with the access.

I would imagine SC2 has the same feature. Check whatever menu lets you send your ally resources.

I know this isn't exactly what you're looking for, but, if you can find a good partner, it could help.

Yes you can share control as well in SC but your partner still has to deal with his own base. It'd be interesting on one of the 2v2 maps that are close together at spawn though for one guy to manage the entire base and the other to attack but then that has the drawback of not being able to coordinate an army as easily

MonsieurFish · 05-03-2010, 09:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

Did you try dropping the graphics to lowest settings?

Yea they're at the lowest settings. It's not bad though on my laptop. Just when I try to hook it up to my big monitor. Not a big deal.

Edit: Anyone who wants to play my name is: MonsieurFish.thefish

3 Justin 3 · 05-03-2010, 10:06 PM

How do you adjust your graphic settings on your computer? Is it, right click then bring up properties, then settings, then "screen resolution"? Or is it something else?

Hack&Lube · 05-04-2010, 01:15 AM

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Originally Posted by 3 Justin 3

How do you adjust your graphic settings on your computer? Is it, right click then bring up properties, then settings, then "screen resolution"? Or is it something else?

If you simply goto display properties, you are only changing your screen resolution for your desktop and not 3D games.

Every game has built in graphics settings and then there are more that you can tweak in your graphics card drivers such as Nvidia Control Panel and Catalyst Control Centre if you have Nvidia and ATI cards but there are also other 3rd party programs such as Rivatuner, ntune, ATI Tray Tools, etc. plus many games often have custom settings you can change in the console or ini or cfg files as well. If you need further speed, the video card drivers usually have some additional graphics tweaks and optimizations such as mip map level and hardware texture levels. If a little extra power is needed, overclocking can be done. Some graphics card have built in overclocking options.

Unless you absolutely need to, you do not want to be turning down the resolution in Starcraft 2 or really any game (which would be in the in-game settings), you want to keep the display resolution at the native resolution of your LCD monitor, otherwise it will interpolate and scale itself and you will get a blurry image. If scaling is off, then you will get a smaller image with black borders around it.

What you most likely would be doing in most games is changing the DirectX level, texture resolution, model complexity, effects details, shader level, particle detail, lighting effects, ansiotrophic filtering, and anti-aliasing, etc. before you touch the game resolution.

Starcraft 2 should not be overly taxing and should scale well to a lot of hardware and you should only need to tweak a few in-game settings in the in-game options. The most important thing is your graphics card for handling the game but some CPU power will be needed with heavy unit counts.

3 Justin 3 · 05-04-2010, 06:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

If you simply goto display properties, you are only changing your screen resolution for your desktop and not 3D games.

Every game has built in graphics settings and then there are more that you can tweak in your graphics card drivers such as Nvidia Control Panel and Catalyst Control Centre if you have Nvidia and ATI cards but there are also other 3rd party programs such as Rivatuner, ntune, ATI Tray Tools, etc. plus many games often have custom settings you can change in the console or ini or cfg files as well. If you need further speed, the video card drivers usually have some additional graphics tweaks and optimizations such as mip map level and hardware texture levels. If a little extra power is needed, overclocking can be done. Some graphics card have built in overclocking options.

Unless you absolutely need to, you do not want to be turning down the resolution in Starcraft 2 or really any game (which would be in the in-game settings), you want to keep the display resolution at the native resolution of your LCD monitor, otherwise it will interpolate and scale itself and you will get a blurry image. If scaling is off, then you will get a smaller image with black borders around it.

What you most likely would be doing in most games is changing the DirectX level, texture resolution, model complexity, effects details, shader level, particle detail, lighting effects, ansiotrophic filtering, and anti-aliasing, etc. before you touch the game resolution.

Starcraft 2 should not be overly taxing and should scale well to a lot of hardware and you should only need to tweak a few in-game settings in the in-game options. The most important thing is your graphics card for handling the game but some CPU power will be needed with heavy unit counts.

That's what I figured, I rarely and I mean rarely game on the computer (I use the 360 or PS3), and I have never played really hardcore games, only Diablo 2 and AoE3.

MonsieurFish · 05-04-2010, 01:05 PM

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Originally Posted by FlamesPuck12

We should have a CP tournament.

I would definitely be down for this. In fact, I may even organize it if people are interested. Just 1v1's winner moves on loser is eliminated?

I_am_Beast · 05-04-2010, 04:42 PM

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Originally Posted by FlamesPuck12

We should have a CP tournament.

Just say I win and save yourself the trouble.....

Blaster86 · 05-04-2010, 05:28 PM

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Originally Posted by I_am_Beast

Just say I win and save yourself the trouble.....

I'd beat you

Yeah_Baby · 05-04-2010, 06:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Blaster86

I'd beat you

Maybe he likes it that way.

I_am_Beast · 05-04-2010, 06:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Blaster86

I'd beat you

log in and lets getter done

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Originally Posted by Yeah_Baby

Maybe he likes it that way.

nothing wrong with some Ike Turner action...

Yeah_Baby · 05-04-2010, 07:48 PM

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Originally Posted by I_am_Beast

nothing wrong with some Ike Turner action...

You're really Chris Brown aren't you?

FlamesPuck12 · 05-05-2010, 02:04 AM

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Originally Posted by MonsieurFish

I would definitely be down for this. In fact, I may even organize it if people are interested. Just 1v1's winner moves on loser is eliminated?

We should do a best of 3, 1v1 and yeah winner moves on. We can still set up games for the losers so we can have our own CP ranking.

Edit: Well now that I think about it, we should do a round robin tournament if there are only few players interested.