In a recent press conference in China, Blizzard responded to the ever present question regarding the system requirements for StarCraft 2. By responded, I mean hinted.

"[T]he game is still refining, we cannot decide it yet. But the game used Pixel Shader 2.0, your system has to support it in order to run the game; also your video card shall be higher than GeForce 5200".

For those who don’t know what a pixel shader is, according to Wikipedia, it is used to manipulate a pixel to apply an effect on an image. This is commonly used for realism effects and shadows in games.

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