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SC II may burn up your video card
Posted: June 12th, 2010, 3:22 pm
by Vegas
on the menu my fps is sometimes as high as 130 and it burns up my video cards, in game my fps goes to 90-100 sometimes and i have to restart the game in order to fix the problem, just letting you guys know, i have two nvidia 9800s linked with a sli bridge
http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=23425636571&sid=5000 Some systems may reach high temperatures and overheating conditions while running StarCraft II. This is mainly due to the video card rendering the screens at full speed. As a workaround, there are two lines that you can add to your Documents\StarCraft II Beta\vari ables .txt file to limit this behavior.
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Frameratecapglue=30
Frameratecap=60
The frameratecapglue controls the framerate at the menu screens. The frameratecap controls the framerate on all other screens. You may adjust these numbers to your liking.
Re: SC II may burn up your video card
Posted: June 12th, 2010, 4:15 pm
by Senethior459
I had no problems. My video card sucks, however, so the settings were low.
Re: SC II may burn up your video card
Posted: June 14th, 2010, 2:35 pm
by Dekar
Lol if a graphics card can't handle running at full speed I would consider it broken in the first place. A lot people use them for intense highly parallel calculations these days - they gotta deliver what they were made for!
Re: SC II may burn up your video card
Posted: June 14th, 2010, 7:55 pm
by Senethior459
Running SC2 at the lowest settings is running at the highest speed of my card. Actually, slightly higher; it lagged a ton. I stuck to the editor.
Re: SC II may burn up your video card
Posted: July 31st, 2010, 7:37 pm
by Ablac
ROFL my laptops having the same problem except its running around 200 FPS ingame... ive got 2 ATI 4870s.. any way to fix it in the final release?
Re: SC II may burn up your video card
Posted: August 1st, 2010, 4:48 am
by Vegas
The fix is easy, requiring players to add the following lines to your "Documents\StarCraft II Beta\variables.txt" "Documents\StarCraft II\variables.txt" file (nice catch, commenter LegolElf):
frameratecapglue=30
frameratecap=60
Re: SC II may burn up your video card
Posted: August 4th, 2010, 2:54 am
by Bartimaeus
I would set both options to whatever your monitor's refresh rate is.
Re: SC II may burn up your video card
Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 4:15 pm
by haxorico
Is this still valid? Im just installing SC2, can it damage my hardware in any manner?
Re: SC II may burn up your video card
Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 4:38 pm
by Dekar
Dekar wrote:Lol if a graphics card can't handle running at full speed I would consider it broken in the first place. A lot people use them for intense highly parallel calculations these days - they gotta deliver what they were made for!
Re: SC II may burn up your video card
Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 6:23 pm
by Vegas
HEY!!! Who posted this originally? It looks like I am the original poster, but I only replied with a fix.