Macbook Pro Retina BOOTCAMP & StarCraft 2 Issues

I am using a Macbook Pro with Retina Display 13-inch (256GB, late 2014).
1. I run StarCraft 2 on Mac OS. The fan speed gets really high whenever I do so. I do know that this is a heavy task (so I don't really thing there are any problems here), but just out of curiosity, I would like to know how your devices do when running SCII.
2. a) When I'm running Windows 8.1 on BOOTCAMP, the temperature and the fan speed gets notably high even for a very light task like typing a document on MS Word (2013) or even when it's idle.
b) StarCraft 2 runs without problems on OS X, but whenever I try to run it on BOOTCAMP, the screen just blacks out. Since I can't do anything esle, I just force reboot with my power button. Then the next time I try to boot on Windows 8.1, it will give me a system error and ask to do a recovery (which it'll fail to when I let it do so). The error usually repeats for 3-5 times of trials before Windows will start booting and working noramlly.
Question 1 is just out of curoisity (so I'm not dying for an answer here), but the issues I'm having in question 2 seems to be a problem. Are these issues just limited to my computer, or is this just due to the poor optimization of BOOTCAMP and applies to everyone else? I would like to know.

Laptop Mac heat pointers:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2123
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1778
http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/status/istatpro.html
https://discussions.apple.com/message/22471963#22471963#22471963
http://www.squidoo.com/how-to-prevent-your-mac-from-overheating

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