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Gentlebite
Profile Joined May 2010
United States132 Posts
August 08 2010 02:39 GMT
#1
After about 15-20 minutes into any kind of game my Sc2 would freeze in
I don't believe this is video card overheating because my screen would just freeze, the ambiance music would still work fine, and the screen doesn't turn black Sc2 just freezes and I can't windows or alt-tab anyone else experiencing this problem or have fixed this issue?
Nikhedoniac
Profile Joined July 2010
Australia20 Posts
August 08 2010 10:51 GMT
#2
I'm also experiencing this problem (and only with SC2) and have yet to find a fix. All these games I'm dropping as a result is doing terrible terrible damage to my ranking!
You require additional APM!
mav451
Profile Joined May 2010
United States1596 Posts
August 08 2010 16:42 GMT
#3
I'll add credence to this too, however, my problem occurs either at:

1) Start of game (i.e. you see your 6 peons, and then freeze)
2) End of game - I click "Victory" and the screen freezes (but mumble is still running).

Either way, 15s pass and I'm back on desktop with SC2's "Error Reporting" window open - FTL.
I have HWMonitor open, so I know temps are not a problem for me either.
With no power comes no responsibility?
TadH
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Canada1846 Posts
August 08 2010 20:31 GMT
#4
the first thing I would suggest is to make sure your drivers are all up to date.

Keep me posted
Loser777
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
1931 Posts
August 08 2010 21:15 GMT
#5
On August 08 2010 11:39 Heaven. wrote:
After about 15-20 minutes into any kind of game my Sc2 would freeze in
I don't believe this is video card overheating because my screen would just freeze, the ambiance music would still work fine, and the screen doesn't turn black Sc2 just freezes and I can't windows or alt-tab anyone else experiencing this problem or have fixed this issue?

Use a GPU temperature monitoring program that has some kind of overlay and periodically glance at it in game. When GPUs overheat many of them throttle, which can cause the freezing -but your background applications such as music won't be affected.
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lahtel
Profile Joined April 2010
United States11 Posts
August 08 2010 22:39 GMT
#6
I used to freeze almost everytime i played.

here is what i did.

1) Launch SC2
2) Alt Tab and go into task manager
3) right click on sc2.exe and select set affinity
4) select just 1 or 2 cores.

that seemed to fix it for me.
Deadlyfish
Profile Joined August 2010
Denmark1980 Posts
August 09 2010 09:28 GMT
#7
I've been having the same problem, mine usually occurs when i target a command center, although it only happens in maybe 1/4 games. Tried everything so far
If wishes were horses we'd be eating steak right now.
Lythis
Profile Joined January 2010
Germany87 Posts
August 09 2010 10:18 GMT
#8
I use a seemingly dumb trick and it never crashed using the trick.(I also have a modified variables.txt frameratecap etc.)
Download RivaTuner from 3D-Guru
Install RivaTuner
Start Rivatuner
Main->Target Adapter->Customize->Hardware monitoring(now dont touch it anymore)
Start Starcraft 2
Maybe its just a stupid coincidence for me... i don't know^^
Corvi
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Germany1406 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-09 11:25:34
August 09 2010 11:24 GMT
#9
in documents\starcraft2 there is a file called Variables.txt

add:
frameratecap=40
(or anything between 40 and 60) in there. that fixed it for me.
Agama
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States72 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-10 07:30:53
August 10 2010 02:53 GMT
#10
On August 09 2010 20:24 Corvi wrote:
in documents\starcraft2 there is a file called Variables.txt

add:
frameratecap=40
(or anything between 40 and 60) in there. that fixed it for me.


This worked for me.

edit: just stopped working >:C
Ichabod
Profile Joined May 2010
United States1659 Posts
August 12 2010 02:46 GMT
#11
I've modified the variables.txt file a few times, adding the frame rate cap, as an attempt to fix my graphical/crashing issues. Will I have to re-modify it every time I start the game? (for some reason it isn't saving the modifications long-term)
Lythis
Profile Joined January 2010
Germany87 Posts
August 12 2010 08:14 GMT
#12
Did anyone try my "solution"?
KasdaTheEmperor
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Croatia239 Posts
August 12 2010 09:32 GMT
#13
My game, instead, crashed once, just when my opponent typed 'gg' and it regularly freezes if the game is alttabbed for a longer period of time.
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