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12-12-2002, 10:40 PM

I saw the review of Scrabble Complete and thought I should pass this along.

Anyone that buys this game and runs it on their Windows XP computer runs a risk of damaging their MB or Processor because the game causes the CPU usage to run continuously at 98%. This can eventually cause "heat death", or destruction of the CPU and/or Motherboard because of excesive heat.

I've contacted the company about this, and even though they do acknowledge that the Scrabble plus does do this on Win XP, they don't want to acknowledge that it is unusual for a software program to do this, or that this can harm a computer.
I'm convinced that many people that run this game (including your readers) stand a good chance of losing their computers.

12-12-2002, 10:40 PM	#1 (permalink)
DGittins Posts: n/a Hellbux: 0 [Check]	I saw the review of Scrabble Complete and thought I should pass this along. Anyone that buys this game and runs it on their Windows XP computer runs a risk of damaging their MB or Processor because the game causes the CPU usage to run continuously at 98%. This can eventually cause "heat death", or destruction of the CPU and/or Motherboard because of excesive heat. I've contacted the company about this, and even though they do acknowledge that the Scrabble plus does do this on Win XP, they don't want to acknowledge that it is unusual for a software program to do this, or that this can harm a computer. I'm convinced that many people that run this game (including your readers) stand a good chance of losing their computers.