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StarCraft 2 is melting people's machines? -- (link)

Posted by Qale (aka Qale) Aug 2 '10, 13:13

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linky (www.washingtonpost.com)

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someone screwed the pooch on the testing. -- nm - Mel Profit Aug 2, 13:18 13
- As the note notes, if cooling is insufficient. Basically the people's systems can't handle their hardware running at higher temps - oblique Aug 2, 13:20 12
  - I've never game tested but I sort of surprised they didn't catch it during hardware testing. -- nm - Mel Profit Aug 2, 13:22 11
    - It's not a problem for properly cooled hardware (which I'm sure most people have). It's only people that don't have their systems set up right - oblique Aug 2, 13:24 6
      - If a menu's running a system hot...that doesn't speak well of the game - Will Hunting Aug 2, 13:29 2
        
        to clarify, I'm guessing that there's a bottleneck in the graphics processing of other scenes that doesn't let component X run at 100% - oblique Aug 2, 13:32
        
        oddly, it's because it's so simple that it comes up. If I can render a complex screen at 30fps and a simple one at 1000, guess which one taxes the - oblique Aug 2, 13:30
      - hmm...DQ Blizzards... -- nm - Diva Aug 2, 13:28
      - so they didn't test it on older or improperly configured systems? - Mel Profit Aug 2, 13:27 1
        
        Given the system requirements, I'd guess that most are fairly new and given that it's a game, most testing was probably done with people with - oblique Aug 2, 13:29
    - Other versions of the same story say it was present during Beta as well. I would think not capping a frame rate would qualify as a software bug. -- nm - Qale Aug 2, 13:23 3
      - The cap is their way of working around idiots :) -- nm - oblique Aug 2, 13:24 2
        
        I'm fairly sure my computer doesn't even meet miniminumumimum requirements. -- nm - Qale Aug 2, 13:28 1
        
        Nope. I don't have the CPU or Graphics Power. -- nm - Qale Aug 2, 13:34
wait, the *menus* are doing this? -- nm - Reagen Aug 2, 13:15 2
- Yah apparently they didn't limit the Vsync or something like that. -- nm - Qale Aug 2, 13:19
- The game actually starts a nuclear fusion -- nm - Guigue Aug 2, 13:17
Mine is barely getting softer - Guigue Aug 2, 13:15
damn Zergs. -- nm - Reagen Aug 2, 13:14

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