StarCraft II Overheating Bug
 

It seems that this game has a known bug that melts video cards in the main menu.

http://gameinformer.com/b/news/archi...ating-bug.aspx

This.

Urk... :dead:

wow I'm shocked, 12 years to make a game and they forgot to fix a little config script..:rotfl2: Real pros..

If your graphics card overheats under 100% load, it is not really the applications fault, now is it?
Granted the menu should have a FPS cap for practical purposes, but if your hardware is damaged due to inadequate cooling you need to take that up with the hardware manufacturer, not Blizzard.

Graphic cards are not designed to carry 100% load 100% of the time.

Wow this is gonna be a big action suit. Glad I dident get the game :up:

Im really surprised at Blizzard for this balls up, not like them at all.

How many hours did the people spend on the menu screen when they damaged their hardware?

As part of overclocking stability testing i have run my entire system under 100% load for hours. Haven't lost anything to heat damage yet

a bug??
 

How is this a bug? It'a feature, a feature of not capping frame rate.

"If your video cards are overheating because of FPS not being locked your system either has airflow/cooling issues or is dirty as F*ck. Just turn on vsync."

Any people dreaming about some big class action suit because of this should simply be murdered.

Murdered? isnt that a bit strong? Maybe wacked with a wet noodle.

Class action suits are a way of life :haha: punishable by death :o

Thing is lots of pepole stop at a menu screen to go mow the lawn cook dinner change a diaper or fall asleep.

Common sense would lead one to believe that at a menu screen the machine would be under the least stress not a constant grind. You would also think pepole would notice the cooling fans screaming like they have never screamed before. But they dont. Folks are lazy and to many its easier to leave the game running than it is to end the program and shut the machine down.

A video card on the verge of failing just might be pushed over the edge.

I have had games cook an older card before its not unheard of.

In that case it is their own god damned fault, is it not?

Well that depends after all they have been practicing this behaviour for many years with no consiquences.... till now.

Is it un reasonable to expect a computer to be able to run in an 'idle' state indefinatly? The assumption is that at a menu screen it is in an 'idle' state.

It is unreasonable to hold software accountable for hardware issues. Menu screens are not idle state, but nor should they load a system 100%. Still, if you suffer hardware damage in a few hours of your hardware runign at full load that is a hardware problem either caused by a poor cooling solution, a clogged cooling solution or aged hardware components failure, where that loadcomes from is irrelevant.

The fault is in three places.

Programatic failures - the load screen shouldn't max hardware.

Hardware failure - either through age or cooling

User failure - for not keeping the system clean should the cooling be an issue, as well as what kind of moron just sits for an hour at a start screen.....

PEBKAC

Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair

Like I said I have had games cook what was thought to be a good card. I assume the stress caused some discreete component to fail but these days you just replace the whole card.

So Oblivion cooked a card, went out bought a new better vid card and promptly blew out a PSU :haha:

I dont thing anything will really come of it but Ill bet you a Beer that out there somewhere right now someone is concieving a class action suit. It's the american way.

To sue others for a fault of your own?

Edit: I should probably step back, am in a foul mood and might say something stupid. Probably just need to vent so will take a walk.

That's how it sadly goes.

Nowadays it seems to be a part of human nature to always try to find the fault in someone or something else than yourself. Anything related to the government seems to be the top choice, closely followed by large companies.

To some portion of the american community....yes.

It probably is a minority portion but still yes.

I dont condone it, in fact I rather dislike it. But... well... there it is.

Why? I got my replacement card From nvidia when they fried it with one of there drivers back in april. Took 3 months and they sent dell tech down to my house and swap my burnt card with a new one. Dell didn't want to do it at first because my rig's warranty expired. Nvidia payed for it all.

If there responsible you can go through proper channels. Be civil and you can have a refund or replacement.

If blizzard is responsible they should fix there mistakes. Lawsuit or not.

I'd like to point out most games do this. From some, I even get an audible high pitched whine from my card as it renders those intro logo screens and menus at 2000fps.

If you're thinking of sueing, you might as well sue the entire games industry.