Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-7153552-20130418163426/@comment-4071133-20130418224557

Be careful with HotS, there are a lot of people who have performance issues after purchasing it, even with top end CPU's and graphics cards. Had a 18 page forum going on Blizz forums, it was around 300 posts of people having huge FPS drops after a few minutes in game before Blizz locked the thread. A lot of people had rigs about as good as you can possibly build, like a Intel i7-3970x and a GTX 680, and get 5-10 fps with everything on low.

Personally, the game has been running like complete garbage after that 1.5 patch last year, but HotS made it about twice as bad. I run a i7-3770k overclocked to 4.2GHz and a GTX 660, and had to put everthing to medium to maintain a decent FPS. And that's in a 1v1. I like 2v2 the best, but it's pretty much unplayable now. Starts out at 90-120 fps, then after 5-10 minutes when the army units start getting higher, it'll be well below 30 during the first fight. On Wings of Liberty, I could have everything set to ultra and not dip below 60fps the whole game in a 4v4. I've tried everything in the book and went through at least a hundred different threads trying different solutions and still haven't fixed it. Seems to me it's VERY poorly optimized, seeing as how my CPU is hardly working during any game, same with my GPU.

On an off note though, I don't know how often you play arcade on SC2, but you should check out a game called Night of the Dead. That's pretty much all I've been playing lately, with a few 2v2's thrown in. Really fun zombie survival with 8 players.

Hopefully if you do purchase it though, you won't have any issues. If you do have problems with it, I suggest you ask for a refund. As far as I know, they still haven't even addressed this problem at all.

Good luck in any of your future games.

For Aiur! :)

Josh