Benihana

*Sigh* I was afraid that might be the issue. It is of course well out of warranty and I'd replace it before I'd pay to fix it (assuming the cost is a replacement motherboard). A new MBP is on the agenda, but not in the budget yet. I think I haven't seen this issue yet because I don't play a lot of cutting edge games (well however cutting edge CnC3 is), or do anything else graphically intensive. That's what surprised me most, because aside from the particle effects, the game seems to have a pretty standard tile engine. Ah well, thanks for all the replies. Perhaps this is some kind of sign. Time to replay the classics? Or perhaps the Geneforge series.

I was hoping this would fix the overheating/graphics issues I'm having, but unfortunately no. With the graphics and sound turned as far down as possible (no extra graphics, thousands of colors, lowest resolution), I experience tearing and flashing vertical artifacts. I have the fans running on max and the temperature goes between 75 and 80C. This is a game-killer for me. I'm on a 2006 17" Core Duo MBP with 2.16GHz proc., 2GB RAM, and an ATI Mobility X1600. OS X 10.6.5. I've been playing your games since Exile 1 came out, so I'm really crossing my fingers here. I'd be happy to send any debug logs if that would help.