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I usually play at around 90 FPS with my
Intel Core 2 Duo CPU (6000 mhz)
4 GB RAM
ATI Radeon HD 5870 1024 mb
All my drivers are all up to date, I cleaned out the Nvidia drivers properly.
I am running Windows XP on this machine, I know that I can't use all of my 4 gb ram with XP, i will upgrade to windows 7 soon.
Since I upgraded my graphics card from a Geforce 8800 GTS (because sc2 fried it -.-), and my RAM from 2 to 4 GB, my FPS in SC2 drops to around 1 FPS after playing for ~1 hour. It stays that way until I close down SC2, then everything goes back to normal.
Now I have been getting a few errors saying that my video memory is full in sc2 or if I open up another game directly after playing sc2.
What is that supposed to mean, how can my 1gb video ram be full?
I really need some good advice on this from a tech savvy TL mate, thanks a lot! 
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Have you checked what temperature your card gets to when it's under load? I get the same problem when i play sc2 on my laptop and it's a heat problem for me.
Your specs look like they could easily run sc2 on good settings so the temp. is the only thing i can think of. I have the same video card on my desktop and it runs really well
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This has happened to me as well, seemingly at random and then it stays until I reboot sometimes, because even when I restart sc2 it starts crawling again half the time. I think it has to be the game graphics or code that messes up your computer or fries your graphic card, it kinda sucks but it's certainly not the comps that are inadequate just poor programing...
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 Yeah, it's memory leaks. Make a full re-install of SC2 and make sure you delete any residue files. You can also run CCclean to make sure nothing is left over from the time of the original installation.
Oh and btw - 6000mhz intel C2D? Weird typo, might want to correct that.
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On November 29 2010 02:53 Thrill wrote:
Yeah, it's memory leaks. Make a full re-install of SC2 and make sure you delete any residue files. You can also run CCclean to make sure nothing is left over from the time of the original installation.
Oh and btw - 6000mhz intel C2D? Weird typo, might want to correct that.
Maybe he overclocked it to 6 Ghz, that would definitely explain any heat problems lol.
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Why are you playing at 90 fps? Just a waste of resources, no wonder SC2 fried your last graphic card and causes this one to do 1 fps after a while. Limit the fps a little, you wont notice the fps difference anyway.
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This happened to me one time. I think it has to do with the graphics card overheating.
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Dude this isnt a First Person Shooter game, try lowering the fps to 30-60, it will seem the same.
And if problem consists reinstall starcraft 2.
Btw ur processor overclocked to 6 ghz? That would explain any heat issues... Or did you count 2x3ghz? xD Because you still write 3ghz then...
Playing campaign?? I remember the video card rendering countless pictures when going into the ship you would get like 800 fps, don't know if they fixed it... Probably...
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On November 29 2010 05:37 iCCup.riffe wrote:
Dude this isnt a First Person Shooter game, try lowering the fps to 30-60, it will seem the same.
And if problem consists reinstall starcraft 2.
Btw ur processor overclocked to 6 ghz? That would explain any heat issues... Or did you count 2x3ghz? xD Because you still write 3ghz then...
Playing campaign?? I remember the video card rendering countless pictures when going into the ship you would get like 800 fps, don't know if they fixed it... Probably...
how do you lower the fps ?
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On November 29 2010 05:49 BlueLobster wrote:Show nested quote +On November 29 2010 05:37 iCCup.riffe wrote:
Dude this isnt a First Person Shooter game, try lowering the fps to 30-60, it will seem the same.
And if problem consists reinstall starcraft 2.
Btw ur processor overclocked to 6 ghz? That would explain any heat issues... Or did you count 2x3ghz? xD Because you still write 3ghz then...
Playing campaign?? I remember the video card rendering countless pictures when going into the ship you would get like 800 fps, don't know if they fixed it... Probably... how do you lower the fps ?
you can cap it, just google frameratecap / frameratecapglue or search it on here, you'll find it pretty fast.
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Calgary25990 Posts
lol wtf is that censored stamp hahaha
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On November 29 2010 07:29 Chill wrote:
lol wtf is that censored stamp hahaha
i bet it's someone's new way of saying "don't listen to this" without having to post o_O
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We should have that stamp in the sc2 strategy forum.
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Oh god, I'm in tears from laughing at the censored stamp.
I can't breathe.
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lol! censored stamp! but i still read it thanks to the dude who quoted him.
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I came in here because I thought this was an interesting problem that I'd like to see the explanation for, but when I saw that "Censored" stamp, nothing else mattered.
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Im struggling to try to understand whats under that censor
aaaaarrrrrrrr so difficult. I want to learn how to overclock my pc to over 9000 :p
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The censored stamp is so much better than a mod edit.
I wanted to see if I knew anything about the issue then I got distracted by the big red letters.
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United States4053 Posts
I actually know what's written underneath the censor  but it took me a good amount of effort. this is WAY better than mod edits
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Thanks a lot for the replies guys.
And I generally approve of the new censoring system.
So this means that a reinstall of sc2 wouldn't help? 0o
Regarding the Mhz issue, I intentionally wrote 6000 to prevent "3000 mhz iz wai not enuff for sc2" responses, but oh well ...
It is not an overheating problem, checking on the temperatures was the first thing I did. Sorry, forgot to mention that in the OP.
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On November 29 2010 10:16 infinitestory wrote:I actually know what's written underneath the censor but it took me a good amount of effort. this is WAY better than mod edits
Doesn't take that much effort... just drag select from the post below it and copypaste 
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I have no clue why my post was censored. I love the feature though - there are so many times in this forum when it's warranted. In this case reinstalling the game is a good first option. A good second would be to ask whether you used Driver Sweeper after switching from Nvidia to Ati (when you installed catalyst).
Memory leaks are a commonly occurring problem and a probable explanation given the "full memory" messages.
Also bear in mind that suggesting a technical solution as first choice is suboptimal when the OP claims his C2D is running at 6ghz...
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United States4053 Posts
On November 30 2010 06:29 -orb- wrote:Show nested quote +On November 29 2010 10:16 infinitestory wrote:I actually know what's written underneath the censor but it took me a good amount of effort. this is WAY better than mod edits Doesn't take that much effort... just drag select from the post below it and copypaste
shhhhhhh
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