Easy Tweak to Avoid StarCraft II Overheating GPU

[Guest]

My son plays SC2 with no issues at all. In fact, everything, from installing, getting on battlenet and actual gameplay goes extremely smooth. All maxed out, 1680/1050, forced x4AA in Nvidia panel, v-sync on 60 FPS, looks beautiful. Stop complaining, get a decent system, buy the games if you want good gameplay. Sure the GPu is getting hot in some points during the game experience but that's why it has a fan that can ramp up and keep the damn thing working!

 

[steelbox]

[citation][nom]Ragnar-Kon[/nom]HaHahahahaha.... classic.How the two are even related boggles my mind.[/citation]
Some times, on certain motherboards, the USB and GPU can share the same path, dividing 16x in to 8x by 8x. Don't know if that the case but it can happen.

 

[BPT747]

Yea Comodo(commode hole) was a pain during the entire installation and the first run of the game, it took about 5 times to get the game to run with the scanner on. Too bad Zone alarm and vista don't get along. where is the emoticon that slaps his forehead.

 

[dextermat]

The title isn't accurate. I read more about bugs than overheating issues.... ill wait for patch 😛

 

[jabliese]

Link to list of known bugs is not found.

The FAT32 problem intrigues me, why does SC2 care what file system it is using?

 

[fayzaan]

[citation][nom]joytech22[/nom]Fail on blizzards behalf, 11 years to work on a game and it's buggier than Crysis was when released, I think..Except it's the opposite, instead of requiring a massive system, SC2 negatively affects high-end systems![/citation]

They haven't been working on it for 11 years!! hahaha where'd you think that up?

Works fine on my pc...no complaints here

 

[Bluescreendeath]

Starcraft 2 overheating your PC? Don't make me laugh.

There are plenty of RTSs out there that are way more graphically intensive (ie. SupCom 1 & 2). Even graphically mid-tier FPSs are more graphically intensive than Starcraft 2 (ie. Fallout 3, FarCry2).

Unless you have 2 overclocked GTX480s in a mid tier case, I don't see how anybody with a PC from the last 7 years would suffer any cooling issues due to the fact that SC2 is not very system intensive.

 

[mlopinto2k1]

[citation][nom]Bluescreendeath[/nom]Starcraft 2 overheating your PC? Don't make me laugh.There are plenty of RTSs out there that are way more graphically intensive (ie. SupCom 1 & 2). Even graphically mid-tier FPSs are more graphically intensive than Starcraft 2 (ie. Fallout 3, FarCry2).Unless you have 2 overclocked GTX480s in a mid tier case, I don't see how anybody with a PC from the last 7 years would suffer any cooling issues due to the fact that SC2 is not very system intensive.[/citation]My interpretation of what you just said, "This is all made up. There are no problems with SC2." Right?

 

[dertechie]

My guess? Normal gaming spreads the load across multiple chunks of the GPU, it's bottlenecked at some point of course, but that point is either cooled better or just doesn't make much heat. A menu screen running at uncapped FPS probably hits the same few parts over and over again, and probably not the parts that Furmark or similar hits. That's a lot of heat in a very small area. If you can't dissipate it fast enough and the card doesn't clock down or ramp fans (maybe the points where it's testing temperature are still cool enough), well, you just torched your GPU.

On the other hand, a friend of mine left his PC on the menu screen countless times in beta for long periods and his card yet lives. Chalking that up to a properly built card (9500 GT iirc).

 

[eddieroolz]

Interesting! I'll share the framerate solution with my friend to see if that helps.

 

[wavetrex]

My 3 year old PSU just blew up. (Overheat...) I was playing SC2 :|
Bloody hell... and I had absolutely no problem with any other game before it...

I hope that a 200W stronger Corsair PSU which I just ordered will hold !

 

[mlopinto2k1]

[citation][nom]wavetrex[/nom]My 3 year old PSU just blew up. (Overheat...) I was playing SC2 :|Bloody hell... and I had absolutely no problem with any other game before it...I hope that a 200W stronger Corsair PSU which I just ordered will hold ![/citation]Have an LCD monitor? "Force On" your vertical sync in your video card options in Windows. If you are using Windows, that is.

 

[nforce4max]

Turn up the fan speed manually till temps improve while in gameplay. Personally people need to learn how to take care of their hardware and only then will most of the cooling issues will go away. There is no excuse for being stupid in this day and age. Keep the case and the coolers as clean as possible while occasionally cleaning the fans in a timely manner.

 

[FiRem00]

"Or you could use Documents\StarCraft II\variables.txt unlike what it asks you to do to use files in the beta folder. gg, gg 😛

 

[toolinthemist]

yea, you could make those changes, or you could just get some fans.

 

[OhCoaster]

my fiance's mac book pro actually overheated a couple times during gameplay, not at the menu. brutal cooling on it though, the back vents are blocked when the lcd is flipped open. my oc'd 4850@740mhz never gets over 72c.

 

[CrimsonJustice]

My friend had an overheating problem on his single 4850. I got him to add the frame cap to the menu and game, turn on vertical sync, install the latest 10.7 and beta 10.7a drivers, but he still had a problem of his card heating up over 100 Celsius during gameplay, even with the fan cranked up to max. Turns out all he had to do was drop down the game qualities to medium so the card wasn't being pushed as much, since it auto-detected the settings as Ultra. Now he plays at 75-80 Celsius and it looks perfectly fine.

Hence, I'd have to agree with all the people saying that you need to know your hardware and be able to adjust accordingly for performance and cooling.

 

[xerroz]

Nowadays only the crapiest products are overheating...see what I did there