Poe2 killed my GPU

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Bohnensuppe#6778 wrote:

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Urza_Mechwalker#7393 wrote:

A game cannot do anything to break a GPU except to demand a lot from it. Demanding a lot can overheat and any lingerign problem may be drastically accelerated.



People.. just enable VSync.. and stop letting your GPUs work like mad maniacs for nothing

Exactly this! No game can damage your hardware directly.

???????? it literally has happened before. 3060?why do these vets think this game is a incapable of failing the consumer?

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darkdhaos#6939 wrote:

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IshikawaSenju#7954 wrote:

So I have seen a a few Posts saying that the Game crashing killed Parts of peoples Systems and didn't really believe it, but now it happened to me aswell and Poe2 can litterally be the only reason it happened.

I bought a new PC at the end of last year and got it on 24th December. Since then the only Game i have installed and played on it is Poe2. Now I got one of these freezes people talk about when trying to enter a Map. I waited a few Minutes before I waited and my PC restarted alone but my Screen was now Green/Red/Blue pixels. I called the Support where I bought my PC and they instantly said it's your GPU so they sent me a new one and I sent back back the old one. Installed the new GPU and everything works fine again and they tested my old one and it in fact is broken.

So can we get any Word from GGG about this Since it now happened on a Brand new GPU with the only Game being played on it being Poe2?

"Dog ate my homework"

Thank you for your Addition to the Discussion, next time if you think about making a useless comment just move on. Thank you!

So your GPU was faulty out of the box. PoE2 revealed the issue for you before the warranty ran out. PoE2 saved you a ton of money.

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IshikawaSenju#7954 wrote:

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darkdhaos#6939 wrote:

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IshikawaSenju#7954 wrote:

So I have seen a a few Posts saying that the Game crashing killed Parts of peoples Systems and didn't really believe it, but now it happened to me aswell and Poe2 can litterally be the only reason it happened.

I bought a new PC at the end of last year and got it on 24th December. Since then the only Game i have installed and played on it is Poe2. Now I got one of these freezes people talk about when trying to enter a Map. I waited a few Minutes before I waited and my PC restarted alone but my Screen was now Green/Red/Blue pixels. I called the Support where I bought my PC and they instantly said it's your GPU so they sent me a new one and I sent back back the old one. Installed the new GPU and everything works fine again and they tested my old one and it in fact is broken.

So can we get any Word from GGG about this Since it now happened on a Brand new GPU with the only Game being played on it being Poe2?

"Dog ate my homework"

Thank you for your Addition to the Discussion, next time if you think about making a useless comment just move on. Thank you!

Agreed. It is useless. Equally as useless as your post. What made you think that random faulty hardware has anything to do with this game?

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IshikawaSenju#7954 wrote:

Agreed. It is useless. Equally as useless as your post. What made you think that random faulty hardware has anything to do with this game?

why do you think games can't destroy hardware? look up 3060

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IshikawaSenju#7954 wrote:

Agreed. It is useless. Equally as useless as your post. What made you think that random faulty hardware has anything to do with this game?

why do you think games can't destroy hardware? look up 3060

All a game does is mildly stress-test your system. If anything, it did you a favor and exposed a fault in a controller, predictable manner. Game itself has nothing to do with a pre-existing and inevitable failure of said GPU.

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darkdhaos#6939 wrote:

All a game does is mildly stress-test your system. If anything, it did you a favor and exposed a fault in a controller, predictable manner. Game itself has nothing to do with a pre-existing and inevitable failure of said GPU.

That's just wrong. If your System crashes cause of poor Performance of any Programm it can brick your Hardware. Especially if it happens often. Guess I was unlucky cause it happened on the first time but if your PC freezes over and over cause a Game or any other program it can kill parts of your System.

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IshikawaSenju#7954 wrote:

And everyone here saying Games can't kill components is just completely wrong cause if a Game crashes your System over and over, there is always a chance it kills any component not just the GPU. Or it bricks ur Windows which is just as bad.

Dude, PC components are high complex systems with Hundreds/thousands of small but important components. If one of these components is defective during production, you will very likely face errors or a non-working product that dies during usage.

If PoE2 would literally kill GPUs, we would see TONS of threads here and not just 1-2 threads about it.

You will find these kind of topics in every forum of gpu-stress-inducing games. Not because these games damage hardware, but because these games ask alot from your GPU. And the combination of high-gpu-stress and an already damaged card explains your result.

And to end this topic: If PoE2 would damage this specific GPU you had, your second card should die now too within a week. I bet this won't happen, which then proves, that PoE2 wasn't at fault here.

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IshikawaSenju#7954 wrote:

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darkdhaos#6939 wrote:

All a game does is mildly stress-test your system. If anything, it did you a favor and exposed a fault in a controller, predictable manner. Game itself has nothing to do with a pre-existing and inevitable failure of said GPU.

That's just wrong. If your System crashes cause of poor Performance of any Programm it can brick your Hardware. Especially if it happens often. Guess I was unlucky cause it happened on the first time but if your PC freezes over and over cause a Game or any other program it can kill parts of your System.

If you know how to handle your pc and keep it clean, some crashes will not destroy your PC or brick your windows. You had to install malware for something like this to happen frequently.

people keep buying used/mined/overclocked videocards and then cry that the game is bad and killed their gpu. Old as the world.