FYI-

This week many (most?) PC gamers have sat down with a shiny new copy of StarCraft II to play. They’ve got a decent set of hardware, graphics settings as high as possible, and a solid Net connection for multiplayer gaming. One problem, while navigating through the menu screens getting ready to play, your machine overheats.

Don’t worry. This isn’t the fault of your rig not being powerful enough to even render menus properly, it’s a bug Blizzard already have a fix for.

Someone at Blizzard forgot to frame rate lock the menu screen in the game. So while in game you may be getting a smooth 60fps, when on the menus they can stress your hardware to its limits and your graphics card melts under the pressure.

To fix or prevent the overheating just open up the variables.txt file located here (assuming a default install):

Documents\StarCraft II\variables.txt

and then add the following two lines to it, save, and restart the game:

frameratecapglue=30
frameratecap=60

If you don’t play, but know someone who does, please pass this info on and save them the cost of a new graphics card.


http://www.geek.co...ting-pcs-20100729/

This happened in another game as well. They forgot to frame rate cap the entire game. One little fix and that's all it took.

I saw the heat issue thing yesterday first hand, I thought my laptop wasn't rendering the between mission cinematics because of that, so I adjusted it asap, also I can feel it on the corner of my keyboard near the escape key, the exhaust fan was seriously hot, hotter than usual and my Nvidia card never runs that hot, even with the worst games.

On top of that, you will need to update your versions of your video card drivers and your Direct X, or you will be facing black blobs while trying to watch the cinematics between missions, or even watching Jim and Tychus in the bar or on the bridge, or the armory or whatever.

Glad you caught it before it did any type of damage.