DirectX/OpenGL Error

[Boris_Spider]

Has anyone here gotten this? I seem to have fallen into the unlucky group of players [not] dealing with this. It's left multiplayer & replays practically off-limits for me, but the campaign seems to be fine. New to SC2, played through the WoL and HotS a little over a week ago. Checked out multiplayer and have been dealing with this since.

ASUS G75V
Intel Core i7-3610QM @ 2.3GHz, 12 GB RAM
Windows 7 (64bit) (SP1)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M (Driver 314.22)

On lowest settings with everything off I get 15-30fps on a good game. All my research into it has come up empty, as no fix seems to exist.

Blizzard has been silent for a little over a month now regarding this (seems to hit NVIDIA users hard).

Not trying to complain, just wondering if any one here ran into this and managed to fix it. All the 'fixes' I seen thus far are unique.

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[Dr Super Good]

Do you mean it crashes (error) or performs badly?

In any case, the 670M is a weak graphic card as it is made for laptops. I am guessing the poor performance is heat related.

 

[Boris_Spider]

It crashes to desktop, after performing horribly. It is a laptop, but after handling BF3 on high I'd expect it to be doable with SC2 on lowest settings.

A new driver came out today, and hopefully it holds. Got through a number of games (I updated in addition to several other fixes, so no idea if any worked). Doubt it's heat related, since everything is cool to the touch and campaign plays beautifully on medium/high settings (actually some heat there). Multiplayer games & replays are where the problem lies.

My desktop will be getting a new card soon (burned out the current ones), and hopefully that'll be able to handle SC2 (didn't put it there since one of the cards has already failed and I'm low on cash).

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[SCIIrox]

You also have Intel core i7, me too, I have GeForce 675MX which is 4GB, 16GB RAM

Before I bought my MSI GT70, I asked Nvidia support a lot and they told me all about it. Plus from seeing cards, I can say this is Mobile graphic card for laptops... and it is 2GB, perhaps 675M would've been better.

Nvidia told me 675M would run at max settings, so I think it would run the game at Ultra, maybe 670M is not much different, though 670MX that is 3GB and between 670M and 675M is a betteer choice

Basically Nvidia Geforce:

680MX - 4GB, 1200+ CUDA cores, The best laptop Card so far
680M, 4 GB, 900 CUDA cores
675MX, 4GB I am here, 900 CUDA cores - I run on Ultra, I don't enable Extreme Textures cause I prefer to make the life of my card longer
675M 2 GB
670MX 3GB
670M, 2 GB You are here

^ DSG says it may be a bad video card but that's only cause it is not PC card... And these video cards with 4GB are excellent for gaming as per Nvidia support. Even with the older ones should be able to run the game at like... high or ultra, so it can't be the card's memory unless damaged and soon dying

 

[Dr Super Good]

Try capping the game frame limit at 30 FPS and see if it helps. It will look bad but may stop crashing.

Just so you know, a Nvidia 8800GT card running SC2 on ultra took a massive 20 seconds to overheat and crash as a result of poor cooling designed (apparently D3D10/OpenGL3 made it use more power than intended). Cards such as a 275GTX and 460GTX run SC2 on ultra with no problems at all as they have sufficient cooling to cope with indefinite use.

The campaign is nowhere near as demanding as a multiplayer game. Especially below Insane since only on Insane is the game speed bumped up to very fast (the normal for multiplayer). Very fast advances game frames faster than normal and will put more strain on your CPU (make it get hotter).

 

[Boris_Spider]

I did try the 30fps cap, it had no effect.

Interesting. I'm not in a position to swap the laptop's card atm, but nice to know.

Yet, most of what I've looked up shows people with this problem found the campaign unplayable (always CTD) while online was limited to laggy fps.

I haven't played yet today, but I intend to see if the driver update is the needed fix. Thanks for the info.

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