umm well ok i have a 4870+quadcore@3.0+6 gigs ram and lots of hdd space, um the game was a little bit laggy but with the new 8.12 drivers from ATI i think theyve added more openGl support, which sc4 is a OGL game i think lol um it runs perfect now, all settings maxed out and max res i can use, no probs, but is till get the randon CTD. thats never gonna stop i guess lol.