Anyone else have StarCraft II try to melt their hardware? Blizzard admits that it’s a known issue and has a fix for you.
Apparently, the game’s menu screens aren’t framerate-limited. This means that when there’s nothing else going on, your graphics hardware renders the bejeezus out of those screens, causing nasty overheating problems. 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
Good to know. Personally I would have appreciated a heads-up before my video card fried, but maybe this can save someone else from the hassle I’ve been dealing with since yesterday afternoon.
On a related note, Blizzard explains StarCraft II’s system requirements in detail here. If you’re curious, you’ll get a much better answer there than you would from me directly. So stop asking and read the official post already!
I game for the girls and the fame
Well then, not even attempting to make it look like we do anything but copypasta, eh?
This is laughable. It’s called not having V-sync enabled, like in any other game. For example, my video card renders 270 frames per second in Counter-Strike: Source. This is not a capped framerate, it’s simply the max my video card can out put. If 100% load on your machine makes it overheat, your manufacturer skimped out on cooling solutions that actually work, applied thermal paste wrong, or didn’t even do stability testing on your machine.
Get this shit off Damn-Skippy.
Also, copy + paste? LOL.
dude i wrote all of this….and submitted it to another website under another name and then redirected it to MYSELF….NIGGA
i will not buy sc2. it will pz my system