StarCraft II Wings of Liberty Benchmark

StarCraft II Wings of Liberty

Posted on July 14, 2011 at 10:04 AM in Benchmarks

Back to the classics: StarCraft II was one of the most awaited games of all times. I remember when I got my SC2 beta key I felt like I won the lottery…

I’m benchmarking StarCraft II Wings of Liberty in Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows 8, on both x32 and x64 architectures. On the second part of this benchmark I’m testing StarCraft II with one, two, three and four cores to see how much CPU power it needs for achieve best performance.

Before I start I must add something: This StarCraft II Wings of Liberty Benchmark is done on a very intense scene so this is kind of worst case scenario.

Test Hardware | Starcraft II Wings of Liberty
Processor

Intel Core i5-2500K (Sandy Bridge)

3.3 GHz, 6 MB L3 Cache, power-saving settings disabled, Turbo Boost disabled.
Motherboard MSI P67-C43-B3, Intel P67 Chipset
Memory 2 x 2 GB DDR3 1600MHZ
Hard Drive WD 500 GB SATA III
Graphics Card Sapphire HD6950 1 GB
Power Supply Corsair TX 650 W
System Software And Drivers
Operating Systems

Windows XP SP3 x32

Windows XP SP2 x64

Windows 7 SP1 x32

Windows 7 SP1 x64

Windows 8 x32 build 7955

Windows 8 x64 build 7989
DirectX DirectX 9
Graphics Driver AMD Catalyst 11.6 WHQL

Let’s begin. Firstly the operating systems benchmark:

StarCraft II Wings of Liberty Benchmark

StarCraft II Wings of Liberty Benchmark

As you can see all operating systems are well matched except for Windows XP x32 which delivers approximately 17% less frames per second. As we saw yesterday in Call of Juarez Bound in Blood Benchmark, Windows XP x32 is falling behind all other operating systems…

Except performance (FPS) there are no other differences between operating systems, on all of them StarCraft II looked the same and loaded in about the same time.

Continue to next page for the Cores and CPU benchmark.


CPU and Cores Benchmark

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