Blizzard offer fix for StarCraft II beta testers getting PCs 'cooked'

So much awesome exists in StarCraft II that its menu can barely contain it, at least that’s what some testers have found with PCs going critical.

Graphics cards are taxed to their limit causing overheat issues, but luckily a simple fix will reverse your own global warming catastrophe.

The GPU can literally cook itself if you’re not careful, but a simple drop of some text in a file will cap the frame rate and thus tell your graphics cards to render a bit less.

”I’ve made a fix for this issue that should make its way into the next beta patch. In the mean time however, there is a workaround that might get you up and running,” posted Blizz coder ‘Pixelmedic’, reports VE3D.

”Quit the game first, then look under your My Documents/Starcraft II Beta folder, you should find a Variables.txt file there. You can open this file with your favorite text editor such as Notepad, and add the following line:”

frameratecap=60

”This will cap your framerate to 60 in the game, which should give your videocard some breathing room. You can put any number, see if a lower number like 30 helps as well, though you will lose framerate,” they continued.

It’s only a ”temporary workaround, an upcoming patch will have an automatic solution for everyone.” Have you got yourself some StarCraft II closed beta?