Graphics Card Fried After Playing WoW
So I got my new MBP 2 days ago, and I installed World of Warcraft, and I was thrilled about how great the graphics looked. I played it in fullscreen with nearly every option set to max and figured I'd be fine (I thought wrong), until suddenly after a pretty graphics-intense scene it dropped down to about 10 FPS, then 5 minutes later went into a sort of sleep/hibernate mode on its own; I guess it overheated. 😟 Before this I had no problem playing at these settings for much longer periods of time.
It would not turn on, so I stuck it in the fridge for 5 minutes, then it finally responded once I plugged it in the AC. And what graced my eyes was a dim grey snapshot of the last thing I saw in WoW with vertical lines of pixels banded across the center. It fried my graphics card, and all I tried to do was play a GAME. Now I most likely have to get it replaced entirely.
So my questions are... Is this normal? Should I just give up my pretty fullscreen graphics and play it in windowed mode (or not at all)? And can anyone recommend ways to keep my MBP cooler so this won't happen (I already had it propped up on a stand)? 😟
It would not turn on, so I stuck it in the fridge for 5 minutes, then it finally responded once I plugged it in the AC. And what graced my eyes was a dim grey snapshot of the last thing I saw in WoW with vertical lines of pixels banded across the center. It fried my graphics card, and all I tried to do was play a GAME. Now I most likely have to get it replaced entirely.
So my questions are... Is this normal? Should I just give up my pretty fullscreen graphics and play it in windowed mode (or not at all)? And can anyone recommend ways to keep my MBP cooler so this won't happen (I already had it propped up on a stand)? 😟
Macbook Pro Rev. C, Mac OS X (10.4.10), 2.4GHz/160GB @ 7200RPM/2GB RAM/1920x1200
