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StarCraft II Can Hurt Your PC, Blizzard Offers Fix
Uros "Vader" Pavlovic
04:56 am EDT @ July 30th, 2010
GameInformer reports of several incidents of systems overheating while playing Blizzard Entertainment's freshly released real-time strategy, StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty. The folks at Blizzard acknowledged that there's a problem with rendering during the game's colorful and rich menu screens. This particular segment of the game is not framerate-limited and that could trigger serious overheating problems.
According to GI, "the fix is easy, requiring players to add the following lines to your "Documents\StarCraft II Beta\variables.txt" "Documents\StarCraft II\variables.txt" file (nice catch, commenter LegolElf):"
frameratecapglue=30
frameratecap=60
Did any of you know about this? I didn't. If you've already fried your GPU when playing SC 2... well, at least now you know what happened.
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next for graphics problems, they'll tell you to play it in CGA.
lazy bitches.
hardware damage huh ? ehh....it's not really something cost-worthy so why worry ?
i love it when shit goes wrong for other people. (^_^)
Nvm, the other 2 are either blank or don't contain parameters that effect the rendering.
Not really a surprise to see them failing already considering:
http://semiaccurate.com/2010/03/29/why-nvidia-hacked-gtx480/
http://semiaccurate.com/2010/01/17/nvidia-gf100-takes-280w-and-unmanufacturable/
I'd be interested to see if you guys get them replaced. I'd expect there weren't enough 470/480s made to cover replacing failed ones, seeing as the yields were so low for the GF100.
GF104 looks a bit better (for the consumer, not for Nvidia - they're going down hard by the looks of things).
Really, let me know how you get on with your warranty for these cards.
What's a starcraft?
(ducks the fanboys throwing stuffs at me right now)
Now to go back to the game!
I am not going to pay $120 for SC2 with three campaigns when the original offered that for $60 back in the day, so i'll wait for the Gold version or whatever in a couple years. There's no pressure as SC1 is still eminently playable!
it's your own fault really, u deserved it.