StarCraft II Melting PCs – Fix It, Quick!

• Lan wrote on 2010-08-03 05:16
  ...SOMEONE TELL KITAE NOW!
  
  

  If your computer is getting really hot while you play StarCraft II, it’s not because you’re blazing up Battle.net – it’s because the game is roasting your machine alive.
  
  Blizzard has confirmed the game has an overheating bug. Apparently, the game doesn’t cap the frame rate it uses when rendering its menus. So basically, the system goes crazy, overworking itself on rendering the menu, and that causes a big increase in heat.
  
  So much so that if the problem isn’t dealt with, it can damage your computer.
  
  There’s an easy fix, however.
  
  Pop open this file: “Documents\StarCraft II\variables.txt.” Then drop the following two lines onto the bottom of the file:
  
  frameratecapglue=30
  frameratecap=60
  
  Save the file and you’re done. According to Blizzard customer support, this change is only a temporary workaround, but it’s probably a fair assumption that there will be a patch to fix the program permanently pretty soon.
  
  Until then, your best defense against StarCraft II-related spontaneous combustion is to remember the advice of Master Miller from Metal Gear Solid: “Take a break.” Your computer (and your bladder) will thank you.
  
  Via Kokugamer.

  
  
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• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2010-08-03 05:17
  Kitae has crappy PC now
  doesnt matter
• Chockeh wrote on 2010-08-03 05:18
  Hmmm...Who says his PC hasn't exploded yet.
  Just as planned.
• Cucurbita wrote on 2010-08-03 05:51
  Mine auto caps at 180 anyways.
• Hiccup wrote on 2010-08-03 05:53
  O_o thats weird how rendering menus can overheat ya comp. xD
• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2010-08-03 05:56
  This is what happens when ur computer is too fast.
• Hiccup wrote on 2010-08-03 05:57
  /wouldn't know
• Cucurbita wrote on 2010-08-03 06:00
  I still have a solid pc, cat.
  I use it for starcraft.
  
  Which is actually why I haven't gotten as much starcraft time in as I would like, because my access to that PC is limited by my mom.
  
  I tried challenge missions today. Took me 2 hours to get a gold medal on the basics.
  Tried stepping up to intermediate and... forget gold, how the hell do I CLEAR this thing?!
• Jobibi wrote on 2010-08-03 07:03
  Wow, perfect timing. My sister called me today complaining that her comp was shutting down while playing this. Good to know it's a known problem that may get a fix, and not just her crappy computer being crappy. If her computer dies I'd have to give her my extra (and I don't want to~).
• Tokiko wrote on 2010-08-03 07:17
  The PS3 has Final Fantasy
  And The PC Has Strarcraft 2.
  [:
  Meh I like my original StarCraft I don't see why I would upgrade.
• EndlessDreams wrote on 2010-08-03 17:47
  I guess that may explains the crashes I sometimes get that shuts down Starcraft. I haven't really played that long to overheat my computer. Yet.
  
  

  Quote from Margatroid;114335:

  I still have a solid pc, cat.
  I use it for starcraft.
  
  Which is actually why I haven't gotten as much starcraft time in as I would like, because my access to that PC is limited by my mom.
  
  I tried challenge missions today. Took me 2 hours to get a gold medal on the basics.
  Tried stepping up to intermediate and... forget gold, how the hell do I CLEAR this thing?!

  
  
  Try looking up Psystarcraft on YouTube. He has videos on how to do the basics for gold and ghost covert ops for gold. He is a diamond rank zerg player in beta and in official.
  
  Ghost Covert ops = Nuking key locations really fast. I had problems with this at first, but after finding out key nuking locations, and rushing the front, I eventually got the gold medal.
  
  Protoss Intermediate = Forcefield spam with Storm. If attacks from Northeast, forcefield on upper ramp. If attacks from Southeast, forcefield at the narrow choke. If mutalisk attacks, get a hallucinated archon or something to tank.
  
  Zerg Intermediate = Just take the tanks and collossus with the infestors (and send your roaches to suicide somewhere). Don't forget that if you press burrow and neural parasite quickly, you can neural parasite while burrowed.