I just got SC2 and other then some minor frame rate drop during some battles where there are alot of things on screen it plays ok. I am having a issue with the Prerendered CS tho. (like the first one where the Marine gets suited up) it stutters real bad almost unwatchable.
I am running it on a Intel P4 HT 2.4 ghz 2gig ddr1 ram, Ati x1550 256 meg ddr2 Video Card.
Now I checked my system out on that "Can I run It" web site and I passed everything except for cpu speed.
Now I thought there would be problems with the game itself but the CutS....I mean my system can handle HD video heck I even make HD video on my system up to 1600x768 1080p for my Youtube videos and have no playback problems...
I've tried updating my Drivers, I was using Cat 9.5 (2/26/2009) so I d/l the newist 10.2 I think it was. but after doing that the game would not even run(game gave me a Error "acces to 3d hardware is locked by some other software please close all other games and or software which might be locking the hardware), plus when I loaded a video in my player (outside of game) ( I use Gom Video player) it would not play correctly...and when I minimized a window it would do so very slowly..I then reverted the driver and everything went back the way it was.(game working etc)
So Any Ideas? I would just like to watch the CS with a little better Frame rate. I have the latest version of BINK tools which Blizzard uses for there game, when I had a older pc I extract the videos from (I think it was Diablo 2) using Bink re encoded the video at a lower resultion and then reput them into the game to make the play better....but it would seem the videos are hidden better or there just done different as I can't find which files that they are in.
I've tried to overclock my card too, but even tho I got the gpu from 550mhz up to almost 750 before it crashed the pc, my benchmarks showed no improvement in frame rate. (I did not test game play just the Videos) I don't know if changing the Video Ram settings would make any difference as my cards Ram settings are locked.....