Blizzard Offers Fix for StarCraft Computer-Melting Bug

[Denamic]

Graphics cards are designed to be able to work under 100% load pretty much indefinitely.
There's basically 2 reasons your graphics card breaks from 'overloading':
#1: Your card isn't getting enough ventilation; Your fault.
#2: Your card is a defect; It'd happen eventually anyway.
Not including vsync in some parts of the game is really not such a big deal.
Vsync isn't even there to maintain your card.
It's for eliminating screen tearing.

 

[Hiphophippo]

no wonder people say starcraft 2

*puts on shades*

...is the hottest pc title on the market.

YYYYEAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!

Beautiful!

 

[slowpoke999]

This is for the PC, imagine if this game was released for an X-Box 360 with he same bug on it...

 

[Da_Schwartz]

Sims3 does the same thing..And that fix still hasn't come yet. Hopefully Blizzard can get things in order..as long as the devs can navigate through the huge wads of cash trying to get to their desk.

On a serious note reading some of the replies this has nothign to do with a dirty cases. This games FPS rate is waaay overworking vid cards and cpu's. Dust or no dust. Cans of air and a few vents isn't the issue here.

 

[duchaked]

oooh ouch...

"go hog wild"

hahaha that's great

 

[ShrooM_DoughKiD]

Its good to see that Blizzard can offer a patch for something like this..
Whats going to happen with the people's GPUs' that overheated and subsequently melted or were fuxxed by this ever-so-large dick-like move?
Are they going to be reimbursed if they can prove that it was SCII? Or was the whole melty thing in the User License Agreement that nobody reads?

 

[fanklok]

good thing I finished the campaign with no problems then huzzah excessive number of cooling fans. Still need a better graphics card though, anyone care to donate something better then a GeForce 8400?

 

[Wardnath]

no wonder people say starcraft 2

*puts on shades*

...is the hottest pc title on the market.

YYYYEAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!

LOL

That was brilliant. XD

 

[cainx10a]

Nice tip, I really don't need another computer issue that I won't have the $$ to fix.

 

[WhiteTigerShiro]

200fps? That's it?
Counter-Strike: Source frequently runs at 300 and nothing has ever fried.
And I don't know if it was an issue with the frame counter, but Oblivion used to go crazy in the menus and show 1000fps...

Not everyone is running a super computer like yours, either.

 

[Mechsoap]

The issue deals with the game's interactive menu screens that pop up between missions, where Jim Raynor can explore his flagship and chat with crew. While the rest of the game has limits on what can be rendered, the menu screens have no framerate cap whatsoever, and some computers will interpret this to mean "go hog wild." Rendering framerates of over 200 frames per second for extended period of times means that computers with insufficient ventilation melt themselves into oblivion. And that means you can't play SC2, and we don't want that.

200fps? That's it?
Counter-Strike: Source frequently runs at 300 and nothing has ever fried.
And I don't know if it was an issue with the frame counter, but Oblivion used to go crazy in the menus and show 1000fps...

that is something that would make you eyes bleed and your moniter exploding while your house is burning, for counter strike i think its ping, wich is not fps, and in oblivion i dont know what your talking about...still framerate average is from 30-60, 1000 is maybe in a far far far far future for normal gaming computers

 

[Mechsoap]

This is for the PC, imagine if this game was released for an X-Box 360 with he same bug on it...

none would notice, the red ring of death is anyway coming to everyone

 

[Jared]

Oh wow. Never knew about this! Well, at least they have made a fix for it!

 

[Tazz Azreal]

and this is the reason why i am staying with a daily dose of SC2 of a max of 5 hours a day, also anyone know how much it would cost to get a computer company like gizmos (or other small name PC company) to make a great pure gaming computer (for around $500 to $800)? im sittin here witha 4 year old E-Machine (sticker also shows H6415 Desktop PC) <-----thinking that might be the model type

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Sigh... no other medium has so many epic fails

 

[FreedanZero]

Thank You Blizzard. Here I was thinking I had a broken fan. Got 15 minutes through the third campaign mission and was sitting comfortably in backwater station waiting for transport when my computer cut off for overheating. Hopefully this will fix it.

 

[tehbeard]

Would love to see a thermal image of the korean peninsula at this time.

just the entire southern half bathed in a red glow, and a few white hot spots round pyongyang as the missiles fly in fury at Starcraft 2 not being sold in their country.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

This is for the PC, imagine if this game was released for an X-Box 360 with he same bug on it...