How to prevent StarCraft 2 from melting your video card

[[ES] Mindflayer]

From Eurogamer:

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty has been melting graphics cards.

The - literally hot - Mac and PC game ships with no frame-rate limiter, which means processors with "insufficient" cooling will happily burn themselves out.

"Screens that are light on detail may make your system overheat if cooling is overall insufficient," warned Blizzard (via DailyTech). "This is because the game has nothing to do so it is primarily just working on drawing the screen very quickly.

"A temporary workaround is to go to your Documents\StarCraft II\variables.txt file and add these lines: frameratecapglue=30 frameratecap=60. You may replace these numbers if you want to."

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty was released last Tuesday and stampeded to the top of the UK charts. Eurogamer's StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty review is tip-toeing nearer. What will it get, what will it get? Depends if Oli's graphics card melted.

[[ES] RandomHero]

One of the guys I work with sent this around last week.  I've been closely monitoring my system temps including graphics card since before the game came out because it gets fucking hot in my room.  The game doesn't appear to cause my system to heat up anymore than any other game.  My framerate is above 80-100 fps because I see alot of tearing when I play and my monitor doesn't tear until around 80 fps.  I keep meaning to turn on vsync ...