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Ok so i have played starcraft II since the past 4? 5 months. for 4 months, i have used windows xp to play (minimum graphics though) and it worked all fine without ANY lag.

(Just so you know, i don't like to play games on the mac. better on the windows because it is faster)

Now i have installed windows 7 and also upgraded the ram. The game runs really laggy now. Does anyone know why this is happening?

Ram 4gb
HDD 500gb
NVIDIA geforce 9400m
2.00 ghz dualcore.
 
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Ok so i have played starcraft II since the past 4? 5 months. for 4 months, i have used windows xp to play (minimum graphics though) and it worked all fine without ANY lag.

(Just so you know, i don't like to play games on the mac. better on the windows because it is faster)

Now i have installed windows 7 and also upgraded the ram. The game runs really laggy now. Does anyone know why this is happening?

Ram 4gb
HDD 500gb
NVIDIA geforce 9400m
2.00 ghz dualcore.
 

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Your post was moved to the correct forum and the title edited for clarity.
 

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I would recommend opening up task manager, and seeing if there is anything hogging your cpu, i.e a virus scan or something.

have you pushed any of the graphics settings up?

I was getting lag on a very powerful machine until I turned down things like AA.

oh and by laggy, do you mean a fluctuating FPS?
 

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And do not cross post. Post in one forum only and reply back to the same thread. Thanks.
 
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Ok so i have played starcraft II since the past 4? 5 months.

Quite an accomplishment! Is it a World Record? ;)

Report on ABC News tonight: video games contribute to divorce rate. Biggest offender is something called World of Warcraft, or some similar title. (Never played it, happily married.)
 
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Isn't it an illusion that Starcraft II runs slower on a Mac than Windows, because the game got released on both. So I think you would be better of buying the Mac version than the Windows version.

Correct me if I am wrong.
 
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Part of the problem is that Windows 7 is a rather bloated OS. Here's an idea… you are entitled to the Mac version as well as the Windows version. Install it in OS X and see how it plays. You may be surprised.
 

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So I think you would be better of buying the Mac version than the Windows version.

The disc is multi-platform.

yes, it is an illusion. it should play exactly the same.
 
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Unless he downloaded it from the Internet.

Disc or no disc, you can still download either version once you have registered your license.
 
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