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1) Starcraft II fa un uso intensivo della CPU la differenza tra un Core 2 Duo e un i5/i7 si vede, eccome. Stesso discorso per il numero di Mhz, un i7 Overcloccato a 3 o 4 Ghz, in game, si mangia lo stesso processore a velocità stock. Maggiore il numero di unità a schermo, maggiore il numero di calcoli appaltati alla CPU. Bene, perchè posso mettere al lavoro il mio i7 @ 4.0 Ghz Non menziono neanche il gap prestazionale tra Intel e AMD perchè è chiaro dall'immagine di sotto.

2) Nvidia va meglio di ATI per Starcraft II, vale la solita regola, i driver Nvidia supportano meglio e piu' efficientemente i videogiochi, Stacraft II non fa eccezione; questo nonostante ATI si sia degnata di rilasciare una versione di drivers che supporta finalmente l'AA in Starcraft II. Al punto tale che una Nvidia 460 (220€) fa meglio di una ATI HD 5870 (330€). Saranno pure superiori tecnicamente, ma sono poco e mal supportate le ATI non c'è niente da fare.

TOM'S HARDWARE GUIDE STARCRAFT II BENCHMARK INSTRUCTIONS

The first step is to download and install the FRAPS framerate measuring utility to record the frame rate.
Set FRAPS to record the min/max/avg frame rate for 60 seconds. Do not press the key to begin the FRAPS run just yet.

- Start StarCraft 2, and log in to your battle.net account.
- Select 'MULTI PLAYER' button at the top left side of the screen
- In the 'SEARCH BY NAME' search field, type 'toms'.
- Select the 4 player 'Toms Hardware Guide Benchmark' map authored by Cleeve
- Set Game Speed to Normal
- Start Game
- When the game begins, you will immediately see the 'Victory!' message suggesting that the game is over. Click the 'Return to Game' button to begin the benchmark

When I recorded benchmark results, I would center the camera on the Protoss mothership at the center of the map in order to be consistent. To do this, select the mothership, press the CTRL and number 1 key to apply the mothership to group 1, and then press the 1 number key to center the camera on the mothership.

Do this as quickly as possible. As soon as this is done, start the FRAPS utility to begin the 60-second frame rate data collection.

When I take this benchmark, I burn the first results because the initial loading creates a lot of inconsistency. In fact, the first time you can just start the game and wait 60 seconds without using FRAPS. After this, exit the map and immediately re-start it. Repeat this three more times and record those three runs to get an average.

If you alt-tab out of StarCraft 2, you will need to burn another run before recording any results as the game will force everything to re-load into memory to cause lags.

Now, I used this benchmark as a single-player map so there might be some variance there, but as far as I can tell you can't search for a single player map. You might have access to the single player map once you've downloaded the multiplayer custom version, I don't know. The single player is preferable because the game seems to pause until you click the 'return to game' button, where the multiplayer version seems to continue whether or not you press the button.