Blizzard Offers Fix for StarCraft Computer-Melting Bug
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now see this is good news! its informative and helpful! I'll be doing that! just as a precaution 
Actually 360 games always run without framelimitations, which is the "bug" described in the aricle.slowpoke999 said:
If the hardware isn't broken this is normal. But if its and old or middle aged 360 or a broken pc it will kill the system after a while. Thats why any game could kill a first gen 360^^
This problem is the hardware with not enough limitations to stop it from damaging itself, or being defective in the first place.
The game is telling the gfx card to "go nuts" and the card sits there going nuts.
For most cards this isn't an issue, or the card will turn off to prevent it from damaging itself (thermal cut-out).
It's the edge cases where the card is in a less-than-ideal circumstances, and gets hot enough to kill itself or is just a crap card.
If they cap the framerate/amount of rendering for menus, it will mean less power consumption for all though I guess
I'm not an SCII player tho, so doesn't affect me ¬¬
The game is telling the gfx card to "go nuts" and the card sits there going nuts.
For most cards this isn't an issue, or the card will turn off to prevent it from damaging itself (thermal cut-out).
It's the edge cases where the card is in a less-than-ideal circumstances, and gets hot enough to kill itself or is just a crap card.
If they cap the framerate/amount of rendering for menus, it will mean less power consumption for all though I guess
I'm not an SCII player tho, so doesn't affect me ¬¬
It's not a waste of power, it's necessary to insure system stability when you have custom cooling and you're trying to make your computer as silent as possible or overclock it as much as possible or strike a balance between the two (I usually go for the 3rd option)new_age_reject said:
360 games don't run without FPS caps, most lock down around 30-60fps. While it wouldn't necessarily destroy the system, it would offer EXTREMELY inconsistent performance, and lead to a lot of whinging forum posts. A few games have the option to unlock the FPS cap (i.e. Bioshock 1), but that's the developer's choice. Not a matter of the platform.GiantRedButton said:
What destroys the 360 hardware is a massive amount of heat from a badly-designed cooling system, cheap thermal paste, tension put on the motherboard by X-clamps, and some shoddy soldering. But not unlimited framerates.
I recall reading somewhere (a long time ago, not going to find that article now) that the human eye has trouble telling the difference after around 100fps. Back in the early 2000's, I had a tower that played CS: Source at 250fps on average, and I honestly couldn't tell the difference from my previous machine that played it at 80-100 on average.ksn0va said:
I guess this laptop is a canidate for spontanous combustion. The heat sink is broken (I don't know how a heat sink breaks) and one of the fans was also broken up to a few weeks ago (I had it replaced)
Although I have played a few hours of SC2 and it was ok, not heating up too much. Then again, I don't think my hardware would be able to run those beautiful scenes at such a high fps even if they wanted too =P
I push this thing to its limit regularly... its even overclocked. Overclocked Macbook - best Macbook =P.
All I need is around another year from this thing. Then I'll be only too happy to throw it in a bin, and get me a desktop.
Although I have played a few hours of SC2 and it was ok, not heating up too much. Then again, I don't think my hardware would be able to run those beautiful scenes at such a high fps even if they wanted too =P
I push this thing to its limit regularly... its even overclocked. Overclocked Macbook - best Macbook =P.
All I need is around another year from this thing. Then I'll be only too happy to throw it in a bin, and get me a desktop.
oh SHIT, I left my laptop on that screen for hours on more than one occasion.
My brand new, over $1000 laptop...
My brand new, over $1000 laptop...
not funny, I left my Starcraft II game open for hours on that exact screen on multiple occasions.Mechsoap said:
Oh my poor incredibly-expensive and brand new laptop. Luckily it seems fine, I wonder if the fine people at Asus have some sort of built-in inhibitor to prevent shit like this.
Holy crap, I knew I smelled smoke a few times while playing SC2 during the campaign and was confused where it was coming from! That new computer seriously needs to arrive soon at this rate...
Korean gamers always have the best deaths. Nothing like being shot in real life by a rival Counter Strike player XDdududf said:
OT: Overheating usually ends up with graphical atrifacts and crashing as opposed to the explosions and house burnings imagined, but still. Probably wanna be careful if you got a monster card in your machine.
