StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm system requirements

Before buying StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm for PC don’t forget to compare system requirements, provided by game developers, with your system configuration. Usually, minimum system requirements mean the configuration, that will allow game to start and normally work on the minimum quality settings. If your PC reaches the recommended requirements, you can have a stable gameplay with high quality settings. If you like to play on ultra settings, you must have hardware better, then specified by developers in recommended system requirements.

You can find official StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm system requirements from developers on this page. If you think, there is any mistake on the page, feel free to write to us on the contacts page

Minimum system requirements:

OS: Windows XP/Windows Vista/Windows 7
CPU: 2.6 GHz Pentium IV or similiar AMD Athlon
RAM (memory): 1 GB (1.5 GB for Windows Vista/Windows 7)
Videocard: 128 MB PCIe NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT or ATI Radeon 9800 PRO

Recommended system requirements:

OS: Windows Vista/Windows 7
CPU: Dual Core 2.4Ghz
RAM (memory): 2 GB
Videocard: 512 MB NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX or ATI Radeon HD 3870

Aside from comparing your PC configuration with StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm system requirements don’t forget to always have updated video drivers. You must always download only the latest versions of stable drivers – try not to use beta versions, because they might have some bug, not yet found and solved by developers.