AoC physically damaged my graphics card. This is not a joke.

dirili

Okay, long story short: I got an old PC that can play my stuff just fine, and testing AoC i had to lower graphic settings down to medium. In for about 20 minutes my computer just hard-reset. Which was weird. I started SpeedFan, GPU-Z and the Task Manager on my second monitor to have an eye on my temperatures and clocks and logged in again. After around another 20 minutes it happened again without any numbers being out of the ordinary, but once I boot up, my system had switched to onboard graphics and my graphics card showed an error.

Thankfully I had another graphics card of the same kind and was able to replace it to figure out what was going on. Turns out the system is fine with the other card, but the original card with which I played AoC is now broken.

Never in my entire life did a game or even software in general manage to physically damage hardware.

I guess I can still recall my money spent, but I'd rather have a proper refund.

thunderfury2024

Then the graphics card was already defective and would have broken at the next heavy load.

Good hardware is never damaged by software.

Shabooey

I'd be careful trying to attribute hardware failures on a particular game and it's quite unfair to do so. It appears, as thunderfury has said, it would have failed under load of another demanding title. I appreciate it's highly frustrating when hardware fails, happened to my new GPU a couple of years ago which was defective, but please don't try to attribute this to specific titles it's not fair.

okolo

As others have mentioned, defective hardware is defective. It always sucks when it happens. Blaming whatever software was running at the time is a gut reaction, and I get it, but 99.99999% of the time, it just isn't the case.

Sorry that happened to you, as I mentioned, it's never fun. Glad you had a replacement on hand though instead of being completely out of commission.

Mahes

Cyberpunk disagrees. There was a clear cut case of the software leading to major issues with certain cards. It had to do with the frame rate setting allowing for cards to just run to melt due to a lack of limitation placed on the frame rate.

Uncommon Sense

There is a frame limit option in the graphics setting.

Also you can use AMD adrenalin, MSI/RIVAtunrer, Geforce and perhaps setting even in your display to frame rate cap.

Smart to set it a couple of frames higher than your display refresh rate if it has freesync/adaptivesync Will keep you and your PC cooler.

Hardware can fail (typically out of warranty), glad you had a backup...

Shoklen

I remember my old card died while playing Left for Dead back in the day; hardware is hardware and can go at anytime; specially memory, controlers, ect... Just sucks when it happens.

Its_Me

dirili wrote: »

Okay, long story short: I got an old PC that can play my stuff just fine, and testing AoC i had to lower graphic settings down to medium. In for about 20 minutes my computer just hard-reset. Which was weird. I started SpeedFan, GPU-Z and the Task Manager on my second monitor to have an eye on my temperatures and clocks and logged in again. After around another 20 minutes it happened again without any numbers being out of the ordinary, but once I boot up, my system had switched to onboard graphics and my graphics card showed an error.

Thankfully I had another graphics card of the same kind and was able to replace it to figure out what was going on. Turns out the system is fine with the other card, but the original card with which I played AoC is now broken.

Never in my entire life did a game or even software in general manage to physically damage hardware.

I guess I can still recall my money spent, but I'd rather have a proper refund.

If I am traveling down the highway in my old car and the engine fails, I do not blame the highway. 😉

It sounds like you had an old (your words) graphics card that decided to die during your test time in Ashes, hopefully the older replacement you put in works for you.