I purchased a 2010 Mac Pro with an ATI 5870 in the last month to do some heavy programming/simulations for my research but also to play the odd game. Since I couldn't justify the hassle of buying and maintaining two machines (windows+mac box) the entry level Mac Pro made sense for me.
With that said, you'd think this baby would have enough power to run StarCraft II at 1080p (native resolution) and Ultra graphics considering SC2 is supposed to be fairly non graphic intensive compared to some of the newer games out there today.
So long story short, every time I played the game at the recommended settings (as determined by the game which happened to be maximum settings on all accounts) the text and graphics were slightly "blurry". Kind of a subtle shakiness that was continually going on all the time. It was extremely annoying. The frame rate was usually 60fps in the game and during extremely heavy battles may drop down to 21fps. I tried reducing all settings to the lowest to see if it would make a difference and even though the fps increased to 170 or so, the blurriness continued.
After a lot of talk with Blizzard I figured out that the blurriness goes away when I reduce the resolution but keep the ultra settings. It doesn't really make sense to me since the fps weren't really "low" unless you call 50fps a low number but that was the only way I could solve the problem.
Just thought I'd leave this here in case someone else is experiencing the above blurriness described.
With that said, you'd think this baby would have enough power to run StarCraft II at 1080p (native resolution) and Ultra graphics considering SC2 is supposed to be fairly non graphic intensive compared to some of the newer games out there today.
So long story short, every time I played the game at the recommended settings (as determined by the game which happened to be maximum settings on all accounts) the text and graphics were slightly "blurry". Kind of a subtle shakiness that was continually going on all the time. It was extremely annoying. The frame rate was usually 60fps in the game and during extremely heavy battles may drop down to 21fps. I tried reducing all settings to the lowest to see if it would make a difference and even though the fps increased to 170 or so, the blurriness continued.
After a lot of talk with Blizzard I figured out that the blurriness goes away when I reduce the resolution but keep the ultra settings. It doesn't really make sense to me since the fps weren't really "low" unless you call 50fps a low number but that was the only way I could solve the problem.
Just thought I'd leave this here in case someone else is experiencing the above blurriness described.