What is it going to take to not lag? (Not ISP related)

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It has been 9 years since the release and after that much time computers have grown in power by a considerable amount. However, Starcraft 2 runs poorly when it comes to dealing with a lot of stuff/units on the map or a bunch of units spawning at once. I can understand there being some sort of lag under extreme circumstances but in general it feels like SC2 is not optimized.

This is not a complaint or personal crusade to give me more FPS. I have read the optimization thread and that is helpful. But the general question I have is:

What hardware will it take to make this game run better? Do I need a server CPU with a bunch of cores? Do I need 3 RTX2080TI? Do I need 128GB of RAM? Do I need 3 petabytes of hard drive space?

I am curious when/what would be required to make this game run better. An example I can give is the map Direct Strike. After about 25 minutes with 6 people in the game with stationary units that spawn your army, combined with all the crap that is happening on the battlefield the game nose dives into a lag fest and turns in to more of a, “who wants to give up first to get out of this lag”?

Once again, I am NOT asking for what is it going to take to run with 60fps on ultra. I am asking. what is it going to take to make this game run more smoothly under all the possible conditions.

I do not have a potato computer (6900k 8 cores overclocked, 1080 16gb ram) but I put all the settings on low except on the terrain just to make it easier and less BS I have to deal with/be annoyed by.

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You can always buy a computer from NASA.

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pretty sure sc2 only runs on one core and there’s nothing that can be done about it on the user side. Your only real option is to get a better cpu since blizz won’t do anything to fix it.

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Yeah, it only uses one core. So you would get the best performance from an overclocked 4 core cpu without hyperthreading since they can probably be pushed higher without temp problems and Hyperthreading might actually decrease Sc2 performance.
To the OP I would suggest turning off hyperthreading if it isn’t already, and perhaps set up your bios so the cpu is tuboboosted higher when only 1-2 cores are in use.

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I mainly want Blizzard to optimize their game and let us utilize more powerful hardware so this game doesn’t run like crap. I have this weird feeling that I wont see that until Starcraft 3, that is if that game will ever be released.

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Yeah, they’re not going to do a core engine upgrade to a game from 2010. That’s a massive investment for something they’re already “putting out to pasture” to put it kindly.

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Not really. Performance of single CPU Core have not increased by that much.

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