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A reminder about the Starcraft 2 overheating issue

If you Starcraft 2 players out there don't already know, this is just a reminder about the serious bug with the game that can overheat your graphics card to the point that it can melt. Initially I felt something wrong...

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dethgar5391d ago

Thanks for this, I didn't know about it. I guess my 5770 doesn't pull enough frames to heat up.

JsonHenry5390d ago

I noticed my 5870 gets a little hot when looking at the CCC. However I just manually set my fan speed to 65% and it never gets over 62 degrees Celsius. Still plenty hot but not out of the "normal" range.

Proxy5390d ago

My HD4850 already runs at 110c+ when under load, it's been this way for a good 2 years now and it shows no signs of stopping now. :)

RedDragan5389d ago

Does this even effect the Radeon HD series?

I have the game to set Max and the cards have never overheated, I left the game on the Menu for hours and it was exremely stable.

I got the 5870 in Crossfire. If I hadn't seen this report I wouldn't have known about it tbh, I think Blizzard should be refunding people for the cards if the game caused the issue as it was their fault through negligence.

HumanStark5390d ago

My roommates videocard died this way just yesterday.

and now he's late on utilities because he had to buy a new card. THANKS BLIZZARD

XactGamer5390d ago

I'm just going to come out and call you a liar based on your console fanboy comment history.

Perjoss5389d ago

good investigation work or stalker behavoir?

discuss!

HumanStark5389d ago

ahahahahhahahahahahahahahah what.

Thecraft19895390d ago

why did he not stop playing and check problems when it started getting laggy because that's what would happen if it got to hot I remember when i finished upgrading and i did not tie some cables and a cable stopped my graphics cards fan within ten minutes of play batman AA i notice it being laggy check my temps checked graphics card problem solved you friend would notice unless he is retard.

Alos885390d ago

This is worrying, I'm not too sure of the specs of my PC but they are hardly new. I hope I can run this game safely, I'm about to order it.

STONEY45390d ago (Edited 5390d ago )

Read the article. All you have to do is modify the variable.txt file and cap the menu framerate to at most, 60. Other than that, the game shouldn't give you any problems.

Spenok5390d ago

I agree that this is an easy fix, its just ridiculous that you have to mess with some features the make sure your hardware doesnt fry.

Capdastaro5390d ago (Edited 5390d ago )

Didn't this happen in the beta too something to do with Nvidia drivers?

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'StarCraft: Remastered', 'StarCraft II' Now Available on PC Game Pass

This week, Blizzard Entertainment dropped both 'StarCraft: Remastered' and 'StarCraft II Campaign Collection' into PC Game Pass.

meganick176d ago

Hopefully these get released on Switch and Playstation, along with Age of Empires. There’s a severe lack of good RTS games on both those platforms.

waytoobad175d ago

if only they didn't raise the price 500% last year.

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Coming to Game Pass: Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, StarCraft & StarCraft II, and More

Happy spooky season to those who celebrate! We have a collection of scary games for you to enjoy with Game Pass, while hiding under the blankets (or maybe that’s just how I play). And if you want to do something slightly less scary, we have a whole list of games for you to start pre-installing including more day one additions like Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and more! Let’s get to the games.

• South Park: The Fractured but Whole (Cloud, Console, and PC) – October 16
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (Cloud, Console, and PC) – October 25
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III (Cloud) – October 25
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• Call of Duty: Warzone (Cloud) – October 25
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• Ashen (Cloud, Console, and PC) – October 29
• Dead Island 2 (PC) – October 31
• StarCraft: Remastered (PC) – November 5
• StarCraft II: Campaign Collection (PC) – November 5

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crazyCoconuts200d ago

Let the COD on GamePass experiment begin!
I would think their quarterly revenue will take a hit compared to a year ago, but will maybe make up for it throughout the year as the monthly GP subs keep coming in

pwnmaster3000200d ago

Was up with call of duty man?
I downloaded cod on gamepass and for some reason I cannot access the game.

darthv72200d ago

just curious what version? There are some that you can pre-load, but they wont work until their release date later this month.

pwnmaster3000200d ago

I have to redownload it again for the 3rd time to check.
I ended up just deleting it to make room for other games after the second time.

It was on Xbox game pass, I didn’t know there was other versions. I just downloaded everything, but sadly I couldn’t even access the game. Maybe 3rd time the charm. I’ll download it again.

SPEAKxTHExTRUTH200d ago

It’s not out yet man unless you’re talking about MW3.

pwnmaster3000200d ago

I’m talking about mw3. For some reason I could not get it to work.

just_looken200d ago

On xbox there is the last gen/current gen versions pc though you could also get a xbox version.

When that new forza first came out for one day they had the xbox version on the pc store i was like ? what it was odd.

On xbox you can easily download the one version of a game instead of the series version so you run into issues on your series console.

pwnmaster3000199d ago

Because a game won’t run after I download it??
Man your kids must hate your @ss if that’s how you think.

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dveio200d ago

It's going to be very interesting to follow up on how the new entry of CoD will perform at the box office, player numbers and distribution of Xbox, PC and PS versions this year.

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DivineHand125200d ago

I got excited thinking they ported StarCraft to consoles but it's just the PC version. Also, I thought Starcraft 2 was already free to play.

TheColbertinator200d ago

I'm certain it is going to be the Campaign Collection version.

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$15 horse for WoW made more money than StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty

Jason Hall, currently an indie developer and former Blizzard employee, has been sharing some really interesting stories from his long career in the industry for a while now. Some of them are truly insightful, while others may seem depressing.

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Sciurus_vulgaris536d ago

I’m a little shocked that StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty sold only around 6 million copies. The original StarCraft did over 11 million. Maybe Blizzard was too leisurely in releasing StarCraft 2? Starcraft 2 came out 12 years after it’s predecessor.

Plague-Doctor27535d ago (Edited 535d ago )

Im surprised too. Starcraft was still a huge name in 2010. It was kinda the only new RTS around and other genres like MOBAs hadn't really kicked off yet. I do remember at the time sentiment around the game was
pretty angry the game was being split into 3 but I doubt that would have impacted sales to that degree

Sciurus_vulgaris535d ago

For a long time I believed StarCraft II sold on par or better than its predecessor. There was so much hype for the game. Plus it had a pretty strong E-Sports scene for a few years.

Myself and half a dozen friends all bought StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty and played it religiously for a full year. While I bought the expansions, most of my friends did not. RPGs seem to be a generally low selling genre.

Nerdmaster535d ago

I'm not shocked at all. This was an early example of Blizzard being greedy. Instead of releasing a complete experience, splitting Starcraft 2 in 3 parts so it could make us purchase it 3 times if we wanted to know the whole story and play story mode with the other races.

Sciurus_vulgaris535d ago

I originally had that stance. However, Wings of Liberty, was just as long, if not longer than StarCraft 1. The expansions were of decent length too and added a good amount of additional content.

il-JumperMT535d ago

and people wonder why we are having mtx in everything. i blame the people who actual buy them.

Nerdmaster535d ago

It's interesting he used Brazil as an example of the importance of regional pricing. Nowadays many companies on Steam are setting their prices in Brazil as high as, if not more than, their price in USA. I simply refused to buy a few games when I noticed that's the case.

Extermin8or3_535d ago

This right here is the fucking problem.

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