This game should play on the worst potato computers!

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Well, provided the user has met the minimum network requirements.

However, bogging down a competitive game with too many flashy graphics and effects and all you do is alienate the players who don’t upgrade their hardware annually.

Additionally, I believe Blizzard needs to update their minimum requirements for HotS. It played better years ago but the requirements are pretty much the same.

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Who can’t play heroes of the storm in 2019 ? :thinking:

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Only people on Laptops without graphics cards.

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What system are you running? I also had a potato PC until I finally upgraded last year but I had little problems playing. Only in a few certain cases it would lag badly for a few seconds, and also had to restart the game after a few hours of play because the cache would fill up.
My PC was:
Intel® Core™2 Quad Q8400 @2.66 GHz
GeForce 9500 GT
4 GB DDR2

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this kinda makes me wanta dig up my old potato and see how it runs.

It was below the minimum spec and at min resolution game was playable at 20-35fps.

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You can lower the graphics and textures in the settings if that helps

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my graphics chip is like 6 years old and still runs the game smoothly on max settings,
what wet slice of bread type gpu do you need to not even run on mid/low settings?

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I was getting horrible 1-3 second game freezes at all the wrong times for the past few months. Any time a big frackas was about to go down, the thing would freeze and i’d come back either dead or grossly out of position.

From my research on how to fix it, it seems like it is a very common issue with this game. My rig is way above the recommended specs (as said, this game doesn’t take much to play).

It seems like it is a flaw in the old SC2 engine that leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to linking 10 computers over the net. Anyone that’s disconnected from a game and tried to get back in to the game can attest. It’s just very slow to reconnect you to a match in progress. The system also isn’t very good about dealing with lag spikes and things of that nature.

I was able to fix this though. I don’t know which of these things helped, but something did the trick.

  1. Got rid of the WiFi and went to a hard wired ethernet cord (all 100 feet of it).
  2. Deleted Microsoft OneDrive.
  3. Deleted all anti-virus software other than Windows Defender.
  4. Disabled full screen optimizations for Heroes of the Storm in Windows 10.
  5. Re-installed video Drivers.
  6. Used the Blizzard scan and repair tool for HOTS.
  7. Spent about an hour making sure that literally nothing on my PC auto boots on start-up (other than Windows Defender).

I don’t know which of the above did the trick, but the game works again. And quite well.