Third PSU to blow up while playing PoE over the last 7 yrs... Coincidence or not?

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fraggleroc wrote:

This HanSoloDK guy tried to justify for GGG on another thread about a ruined SSD...

either he's some associate of GGG or damage control sent by them on these forums to discredit all the effects of the game on our hardware...

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fraggleroc wrote:

I really do not want to give up on this game. But I never thought that this would be the direction of the game - Piling on one league after another on top of the base game.

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Daiena wrote:

Games don't blow up your PSU. Power management has nothing to do with any game. Worst case that a game can do is, as in infamous case of Starcraft II, where it burned thousands of GPUs because even with vsync it would constantly draw maximum amount of frames a gpu can put out.

I don't mind people blaming ggg for bad performance when they are running subpar systems that are badly maintained to say the least, but to blame a game, any game - on blowing up a power supply? Do you even know the slightest bit of power management and how it's handled? Because if you did, you wouldn't be blaming a simple game on it, but would rather start trouble shooting your hardware one component at a time. Tho you should of done that after the first burned PSU, so even if you go to any proper hardware tech forum, they will all tell you the same - 3 burned out power supplies means you must have damaged other hardware components as well, you are lucky it still boots at all, so for all anyone knows, you might have damaged your mother board and gpu, and that's the best case scenario.

That is unless you are overexaggerating the 3 PSU thing, which tbh would be some sort of a world record assuming no other hardware was damaged, because power supplies never die alone, if they don't take something with them, they 100% damage something.

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SeCKSEgai wrote:

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Daiena wrote:

Games don't blow up your PSU. Power management has nothing to do with any game. Worst case that a game can do is, as in infamous case of Starcraft II, where it burned thousands of GPUs because even with vsync it would constantly draw maximum amount of frames a gpu can put out.

I don't mind people blaming ggg for bad performance when they are running subpar systems that are badly maintained to say the least, but to blame a game, any game - on blowing up a power supply? Do you even know the slightest bit of power management and how it's handled? Because if you did, you wouldn't be blaming a simple game on it, but would rather start trouble shooting your hardware one component at a time. Tho you should of done that after the first burned PSU, so even if you go to any proper hardware tech forum, they will all tell you the same - 3 burned out power supplies means you must have damaged other hardware components as well, you are lucky it still boots at all, so for all anyone knows, you might have damaged your mother board and gpu, and that's the best case scenario.

That is unless you are overexaggerating the 3 PSU thing, which tbh would be some sort of a world record assuming no other hardware was damaged, because power supplies never die alone, if they don't take something with them, they 100% damage something.

You say that the games can't destroy the PSU but point out hardware being physically destroyed by something completely beyond a user's control.

You essentially describe how a coding issue caused hardware to fail.

Poe is far from the cleanest code. Every league start is followed by a LARGE number of fixes. Even right now I'm unable to get in the game because I keep getting a bad hash on one file but the pack checker fix doesn't fix it like it normally would and I'm having to wait for server side to get addressed. It's not like I can just replace the problem file, it's buried in a single 27gig archive. Patching repeats with the same error and instead of reaching the usual 100% the archive continues to download before repeating the error.

Point being, it's not like this is launch day, this is over a week in and they've already patched several times.

Going back to your original reference of cards getting fried - the hardware was doing extra work and generating unnecessary heat because of a coding/programming issue. None of my other 3d accelerated games generate quite as much heat.

But you're also not wrong to point out (in context) that damage isn't always physically visible. Most gamers aren't going to go as far as check leads on their boards, I know I wouldn't. So it's definitely possible that there is hidden damage contributing to the final result.

However, I wouldn't be at all surprised to find PoE as the common factor - remember they're pushing out 3 month leagues that require multiple patches before the first month ends, and that's essentially thrown on top of previous code that needed multiple patches that didn't entirely address the flaws of its predecessor.

But again - I would agree it's wise to focus on other aspects like wiring (of the house). Depending on area they could be more prone to surges in the alternating current. I always keep some kind of surge protection in between my primary computer and power (ac).

That said, I would not rule out PoE by any means just because its a game (read software). Of all the accelerated games I've played over the years, none of the others have made me regularly fear frying my graphics card, and that's without overclocking anything.

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SeCKSEgai wrote:

That's why I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss PoE factoring in. Bethesda games are buggy as hell but their last two engines never made me fear for the hardware. I didn't make it a week in delirium before pulling off one of the sides of my tower.

I probably should be glad the pack checker hasn't been able to fix my failed hash.