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StarCraft II Overheating Bug - tech
(hx) 09:01 PM CEST - Jul,30 2010 - Post a comment / read (7)
Has StarCraft II melted your machine yet? Blizzard has officially admitted that itâ€™s a known issue and that there is a fix to it all. Here's the workaround for the beta, which will presumably work on the full game by using the proper directory: StarCraft IIâ€™s menu screens arenâ€™t framerate-limited, which means that when thereâ€™s nothing else happening, your graphics hardware renders the shit out of those screens, causing some bad overheating problems. Not to worry though the fix-up is easy, requiring players to add only a few of the following lines to your â€œDocuments\StarCraft II Beta\variables.txtâ€ â€œDocuments\StarCraft II\variables.txtâ€ file (nice catch, commenter LegolElf):

frameratecapglue=30
frameratecap=60

last 10 comments:

Koogle	(10:10 PM CEST - Jul,30 2010 )
I just visited the Starcraft 2 forums, wow that place is full of fanboy suckers. Actually I only went to see if a blueblizztard really said "renders the shit out of those screens"

zarlin	(11:35 AM CEST - Jul,31 2010 )
my god people are willing to get there graphic card melted just for a game , instead of waiting they HAVE to play , bahhh bahh we want to play , i wonder if faceblizz gives peps a new card if it happens to melt , facesheet is in tha house just waiting to get online there :evil: :lol:

El_Coyote

(12:32 PM CEST - Jul,31 2010 )

What i dont get about this, is why is it going to damage the machine to render a scene with nothing in high fps as compared to a scene with a lot of details in lower fps. The graphics card does the same amount of work(it does have a top limit). It seems to me like its a question of insufficient cooling rather than a SC2 problem.
Granted there is no reason why there shouldn't be fps limits on the menu, but stil..l. If a machine "melts" because of running a scene with few details, it would be bound to happen regardless.

sikapossu	(12:33 PM CEST - Jul,31 2010 )
you did notice that date was 7/15/10 the time when it was on still beta testing ? and directory is Documents\StarCraft II Beta\ from BETA versio not the final game ? so is there info that same bug is on final versio too ?

darknothing	(04:16 PM CEST - Jul,31 2010 )
played over 3h last night no overheat. that file isn't located in the final version. nothing in there forums about this issue atm. OLD NEWS i guess. but on the other end, there are a hell of a lot of people with issues right now with the game. it really wasnt ready to come out yet, could have used 3 more months of polish.

Badmagic	(05:48 PM CEST - Jul,31 2010 )
Odd, files right here for me... Drive:\Users\UserName\Documents\StarCraft II

gx-x	(08:55 PM CEST - Jul,31 2010 )
thats just BS or people have dust carpets in their computers. My 5850 get's to ~80C with 40% fan speed, menu or no menu. Crysis renders 999fps in menu, SC2 renders ~90. I don't see a problem. Perhaps this is just a way to market a product saying "our game is so advanced that it can fry your computer". Utter BS.

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