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Article #716015Re: Stacraft 2. What do you think?
From: Doug Jacobs
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:20
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:20
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Lance Corporal Hammer Schultz <starfist@gmail.invalid> wrote: > Okay, so the menu graphics had no cap on the framerate, and some > people's cards overheated and were destroyed. > > This is most definitely *not* the fault of Blizzard. If a card can > run so hot as to destroy itself, that is either due to bad card > design/poor cooling, or overclocking. > > The people demanding that Blizzard replace their hardware are just > whiners. I'm not so sure. Name one other piece of software that has this same problem. ... Ok, so apparently Blizzard did something different that all those other software authors didn't do that caused this problem. Otherwise, why hasn't this been a problem with other games? Heck Starcraft2 isn't even one of those "system crushers" like Crysis was when it first relased, and we still didn't have reports of peoples video cards breaking down. Oh I'm not saying the hardware and driver folks don't deserve a large part of the blame here. Gracefully handling bad, possibly catastrophic input is their job, and they failed miserably. At the same time, I find it hard not to include Blizzard here due to this not having occured before. -- It's not broken. It's...advanced.
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From: Doug Jacobs <djacobs@rawbw.com>
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