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Is StarCraft II Killing Graphics Cards?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the wish-i-had-a-copy dept.

An anonymous reader writes "One of the more curious trends emerging from last week's StarCraft II launch is people alleging that the game kills graphics cards.The between-mission scenes onboard Jim Raynor's ship aren't framerate capped. These are fairly static scenes, and don't take much work for the graphics card to display them. Because of this, the card renders the scene as quickly as possible, which then taxes your graphics card as it works to its full potential. As the pipelines within your graphics card work overtime, the card will heat up and if it can't cope with that heat it will crash."

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  1. Re:Don't make car analogies if you don't understan by BobMcD · · Score: 0, Troll

    Whatever a CPU or GPU is rated to for speed is not a temporary max, it is what it can run at full time. If there is a failure, it indicates a defect of some kind somewhere.

    That's a wonderful world to live in, but it isn't exactly the real world. The chief advantage of the real world over the one you describe is that stuff here is a lot cheaper. This world has laptops that aren't necessarily 'toughbooks' and commodity hardware that is often imperfect, but 'good enough' for most uses until it becomes obsolete and you replace it anyway. None of the stuff bought in the here and now will handle running full-bore for very long unless you paid an exorbitant amount for it.

  2. Re:read: StarCraft will expose your crappy setup by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    What a presumptuous load of bullshit. Do you honestly think people who played the original Starcraft religiously, 12 years ago, would still be using pentium 90's, 1's and 2's?

    Didn't think so. -_-

  3. Re:Already dead by drinkypoo · · Score: -1, Troll

    I see the shills have discovered the "Overrated" mod, does that go to metamod yet? Modding me troll or flamebait would be too obvious. Guess you guys are earning your pay.

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  4. Re:Ridiculous. by Khyber · · Score: -1, Troll

    "electronics, my uneducated friend, are different as there are NOT any moving parts in it."

    Hey asshole, guess what that rotating data storage platter in your hard drive does? MOVE. Ditto that optical disk.

    You're the uneducated one. Many electronics still have moving parts Sony Walkman? Portable CD Players?

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