World of Warcraft’s recent patch included an in-game engine speed-up, which Blizzard tells me is the cause of my video card overheating and vomiting green squares all over my nice pretty desktop.
I guess I didn’t realize how addicted I’d become in the past two weeks until moments ago, when I was speccing out a $2,900 new Mac tower at Apple.com. Eerie.
Minor update: Several posters on WoW forums confirm my suspicion that even expensive video cards and faster systems do not resolve this life-destroying, mind-killing problem. Thank you, internet, for saving me a lot of money. Now: Save my level 33 Priest. He’s got to kill orcs.
Major update: Okay, I opened up my machine and pulled out the card, and, like Blizzard told me, it was covered in black heat-retaining gunk. Ugh. Anyhow, I hereby absolve to stop blaming massive push-out patches for stupid localized hardware problems. This week.
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