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Today is launch day for StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, Blizzard's real-time sequel that's been a dozen years in the making (or waiting, at least). There is a Known Issues - Technical Support related list and a Current list of bugs on the StarCraft II Forums outlining issues with the game (thanks Big Download). Also, since there turns out to be no option within the game to activate anti-aliasing, there's a post on PC Games Hardware explaining how to turn this on in the control panel for NVIDIA graphics cards. As there is no corresponding option for ATI owners, they have word from ATI on why, saying: "third parties found that 4x AA led to a reduction in fps rendering at lower screen resolutions, which only became more noticeable at larger resolutions. After evaluating our options, our engineering team opted not to provide AA support for StarCraft II within the Catalyst Control Center, even though the competition has included AA support in their driver at launch. We are committed to making AA perform at an acceptable level before we release it to our customers. We will continue to work with Blizzard on this matter and hope to offer our customers an acceptable AA solution at a later date." On a related note, PC Perspective has an article on this topic that includes benchmarks for NVIDIA accelerators showing what sort of performance hit this entails. On a semi-related note, there is a StarCraft II Q&A with Blizzard's Rob Pardo on USATODAY.com discussing the game in general terms.
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The battle.net website lets you download and install this game without ever paying for it. That is kind of cool. You even get to watch the intro and see the main menu screen. Didn't notice if there was a graphical test to rate my hardware. I got the "below minimum specs" message but it still let me install. AA have never interested me so I'm surprised anyone is so upset about it. With a game running at 1920x1080 graphics (in general) look fantastic, I don't think I have good enough eye sight to see the jaggies at that res...I guess I have built in AA in my eyes...
There is a box to click that says play as a guest on the front screen, but it says you need a SC2 character (which I assume you get once you register a copy of the game) and it mentions offline mode...
Can someone explain that option? Once you register your game and get your account setup, that link would let someone else jump in and play the game who is not you? (on your computer?) If that is the case is this just so that someone else doesn't mess with your stats or something? Seems like it would be easier to just let a friend start a new game and forget the whole registering a guest account thing.
Has anyone used this option? |
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