Black Screen crash in Starcraft 2

[Slux]

Hi all,

I originally posted this here until I realised it was an iMac forum, so here is my Macbook Pro forum repost.

Symptoms are: Screen goes black after roughly 10-15 minutes of gameplay, sound gets stuck repeating whatever was playing at the time. Unrecoverable except through hard reboot.

Only happens playing Starcraft 2, since roughly August. Prior to that Starcraft 2 had been fine (for over a year) and no other games or applications are affected.

2010 Macbook Pro, specs per signature below.

Extended hardware test turns up nothing.

Reading older threads here and other sites leads me to believe this problem may be related to TS4088. Can anyone confirm or suggest other avenues of investigation?

Partial error log attached:

Interval Since Last Panic Report:  38914 sec
Panics Since Last Report:          2
Anonymous UUID:                    2661D33D-F35D-47FD-8A32-8425240DD886

Sat Sep  8 15:17:25 2012
panic(cpu 1 caller 0x5c400c9b): NVRM[0/1:0:0]: Read Error 0x00000100: CFG 0x0a2910de 0x00100000 0x00000000, BAR0 0xc0000000 0x7f800000 0x0a5480a2, D0, P3/4
Backtrace (CPU 1), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x5b5bb888 : 0x21b837 (0x5dd7fc 0x5b5bb8bc 0x223ce1 0x0) 
0x5b5bb8d8 : 0x5c400c9b (0x5c61628c 0x5c686800 0x5c624e60 0x0) 
0x5b5bb978 : 0x5c51b608 (0x8d76804 0x75f1004 0x100 0x5b99a986) 
0x5b5bb9c8 : 0x5c512601 (0x75f1004 0x100 0x5b5bb9f8 0x5c3f0778) 
0x5b5bb9f8 : 0x5cc359a6 (0x75f1004 0x100 0x438004ee 0x53792218) 
0x5b5bbb38 : 0x5c53a2b5 (0x75f1004 0x7079004 0x0 0x0) 
0x5b5bbb78 : 0x5c409e7c (0x75f1004 0x7079004 0x0 0x0) 
0x5b5bbc18 : 0x5c40655b (0x0 0x9 0x0 0x0) 
0x5b5bbdc8 : 0x5c40842a (0x0 0x600d600d 0x702a 0x5b5bbdf8) 
0x5b5bbe98 : 0x5c39c582 (0xc1d0001c 0xaa910001 0x20802040 0x5b5bbee0) 
0x5b5bbef8 : 0x7f79957d (0x7ed2400 0x5b5bbf4c 0x0 0x7) 
0x5b5bbf58 : 0x7f79971a (0x8ac9800 0x7f7a0e54 0x5b5bbf78 0x2a45c9) 
0x5b5bbf78 : 0x230235 (0x8ac9800 0x0 0x98243d4 0x0) 
0x5b5bbfc8 : 0x2a179c (0x863ea0 0x0 0x10 0x98173a0) 
      Kernel Extensions in backtrace (with dependencies):
         com.apple.driver.AGPM(100.12.31)@0x7f796000->0x7f7a0fff
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.2.1)@0x5b78b000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.2.1)@0x5b634000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.6.5)@0x5363a000
         com.apple.nvidia.nv50hal(6.4.0)@0x5caff000->0x5cf13fff
            dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(6.4.0)@0x5c39a000
         com.apple.NVDAResman(6.4.0)@0x5c39a000->0x5c687fff
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.6.5)@0x5363a000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.2.1)@0x5b634000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.2.1)@0x5b78b000

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task

Mac OS version:
10K549

 

[Cassadian]

I'm sorry to say this. But playing games, even those suited for Mac's in general have a buttload of software issues. I usually get hundreds of extra FPS in SC2 when playing on Windows. Beats me why it happens.

 

[Slux]

Update:

Took Macbook Pro to genius bar and they confirmed that the problem was indeed related to TS4088 and are currently replacing the logic board free of charge.

Looking forward to get back into some serious SC2 very soon!