Obviously it's Blizzard's fault that my computer doesn't have sufficient cooling!

http://gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2010/07/28/blizzard-confirms-starcraft-ii-overheating-bug.aspx

Yea, total bull****.

Is it possible for a program/process to run wild and cause hardware to self destruct like that? Or should any properly cooled and maintained system be immune to overheat thanks to hard limits of the hardware?

Nope, and Starcraft stressing your video card is no different than a burn in test or any other game stressing your video card by rendering as many frames as it can. If it causes your video card to die, tough luck, it wasn't being cooled properly for whatever reason.

The only way anything could actually hurt a properly cooled computer is if the program was capable of overclocking your video card, thus making it draw more power and generate more heat than it's designed to.

'Bug' caused by people disabling vsync, pegs CPU at 100% when the game isn't GPU-bound. Same people blame Blizzard for making their 'GPU overheat.' Whole fiasco proves again that Blizzard fans are disproportionately inept.

Isn't this 'bug' in just about every game ever? In the Crysis menu screens I see the framerate go over 900 all the time and my hardware is fine.

No, it's only in games without 3 million triangle menus.

SC2 has probably overheated my laptop, resulting in an automatic shutdown, five or six times. I just took it as the latest (and definitive) sign that I need to take my computer in for repairs. Will do so once I finish the campaign, regardless whether the overheating issue was my fault or Blizzard's.

oh god pleases say you don't think your screen was displaying 900 frames per second.
Explaining GPU rendering and Hz got real old.

When I play MOHAA I get 2000 FPS. That means my computer screen is actually showing me over 2000 individual snapshots of my game each second! I laugh at the crappiness of my friends' computers who can't manage more than a couple hundred.

right cause your average person should be expected to know those things. Stupid blizzard fans being all backwards and such.

Yeah well I get 3000 playing Source games on my overclocked pentium 4. :smug:

why yes i do believe my 60hz screen was displaying 900 frames every second please regale me with your fantastic knowledge of refresh rates :downs: :downs:

I can't stand playing anything without vsync.

And there are some games that refuse to turn it on.

The amusing thing about all this is that Starcraft 2 is far from the first game that can stress the GPU in menus with vsync off. Hell, every Source game that's rendering 3D stuff in the background of the menu behaves the same way.

I bet some people just left their computer running for hours or so in the menu and probably experienced their hardware issue.

Every game with vsync off, period, stresses the GPU. GPU don't care if it's rendering 6 triangles per frame or 6 trillion, it's still gonna push out 800 million of them a second.

Right. It's just amusing that people get angry because SC2 does it in menus as well, despite any other game with 3D rendering in the background of the menus behaving the exact same way.

Because it's actually overheating their CPU. Or they're just Starcraft fans and this is the first game that they have ever used their 3D card for.