SearchOverheating bug confirmed - how to fix it
Posted by Patrik "Raistlin" Hellstrand 1 year ago
Your graphics card might overheat playing StarCraft 2, as the computer will try to render an infinite number of framerates.
- "Screens that are light on detail may make your system overheat if cooling is overall insufficient. This is because the game has nothing to do so it is primarily just working on drawing the screen very quickly," explains Blizzard Customer in the tech support forum.
For a temporary workaround, go to your Documents/StarCraft II/Variables.txt and set frameratecapglue to 30 and frameratecap to 60.
Add these lines to Variable.txt:
frameratecapglue=30
frameratecap=60
Other known issues are the unability to run StarCraft 2 in compability mode in Windows, black screen when trying to use a Quick Cam webcam.
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| Battle.net - Source |
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| well but it has face-fck-book integration right? who the fck cares about some bugs :D |
| sheesh 1st it didnt detect my graphics card at all (even it worked fine @ beta) and later on this overheatng jesus... |
| omg overheating solution !!! i love you guys. i'ma try it asap <333333 |
| im guessin u have to add these in cuz they dont exist? |
| GJ blizz ? ;)) |
| Kind of funny, '...nothing to do'. |
| lol these commands were already posted in every 2nd forum while beta was up, but it never worked on my laptop... |
but hey, atleast it works now :D hell.. it's about damn time  |
| any1 has long alt-tab time.. like 1minute or so when you tab back in game? alt tab to desktop works fine but when i tab back it freezes black for 1 minute or so.. i have a HD5770.. |
| same prob 5970 |
| Wow no wonder my fan speed rises up to almost 7500 RPM while playing sc2.... |
| #11 mine did that when i played BroodWar, sounded like my comp was gonna explode or something ^^ |
| well my graphic card has already burned during the beta. And of course when i write to blizzard to get some explanation thay were answering that there is no way that sc2 had cosed that. That it was my video card's drivers foult. And now they finally admit it. What a joke... instead of sc2 i was forced to buy a new VGA. thx blizz. |
| #9 and #10, have you tried running in Window Mode (Full Screen) |
| i had this problem in beta but not in release :-? |
| My graphic card was burned out and was unfunctional after 1-2 games. Geforce 8800 GTS OC (Asus). Had to buy a new one right after that. Never had problems before. |
| no wonder my laptop screen flickers, then hangs. added those entries already. hope this works! |
| #9 #10 I have the same problem, maybe because we have a Radeon (?)... #14 tried, same problem and sometimes my sc2.exe stop responding.. |
| I also get a blackscreen, i launch a SC2 game then try to play CS 1.6 on steam ou any other HALF LIFE mods the game works as you can hear the sound when you roll over menus and you can even get in a game, but you don't get any HUD info like crosshaire, ammo, etc... Have to reboot to play cs |
| this overheating bug is pretty annoying ... ninjaedit: but whats even more annoying is the fking b.net bug in which i dont see any of my achevements , special prizes and other things like that , i cant even set my own portrait or see other ppl's portraits ffs ... its annoying the shit out of me ;/ plz fix this somehow Blizzard ! |
| cola ftw much thx <3 |
| #9 I have the same problem and the same GFX, I wonder if this fixes it. Will try it out! |
| it still overheats :/ the "solution" doesn't work TwT |
| Hey can anyone tell me where I can find that file "Documents/StarcraftII/variable.txt." Is it under the starcraft II folder.. I don't seem to be able to find it.. |
| #24 not in main Sc2 folder In my documents Sc2 folder ,your Sc have 2 folders in your computer , one is instalation folder , secound in my documents |
| I run the game on a macbook pro and editing the variables.txt helps. But everytime I reboot my computer it resets so I have to edit it again. Anyone know of any permanent solution? |
| maybe setting it to readonly? and this more a hardware failure. Software using standard available API in even most ridiculousway should never be able to fry the hardware. Yes, blizzard failed somewhat because they didn't cap the framerate so video card calculated as much frames as it could but the card should disable itself long before physical damage. How is it different than running a benchmark software which tests the hardware to its fullest? Besides it's not a fix but a workaround. |
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