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To op, I suggest checking drivers and not just video.. check sound drivers, motherboard drivers as well. Also pay attention to the crash, it could be a sign of a failing power supply unit or a glitching gpu.. or bad maintenance. But it really depends alot on what was happening when it crashed, ie the program not exiting correctly etc..
As for damaging your pc.. yes it can. It can especially damage your hard drives or solid state drives if you use those instead.. it can corrupt data for the most part, which can completely break windows. It cannot however generally break your hardware. Although repeated restarts of your pc will increase wear n tear of your components and over time.. it could cause an issue. But less likely.
When you save the game. Wait a 20 count.. before you quit.. it could be you tried quitting whilst it was saving and this caused your game to exit incorrectly. Always give the software time to save completely, before exiting it. And preferably, do so via the menu, don't exit to desktop or via Alt F4 for example as this shuts the software down immediately and some issues can occur here as well. Esp in an EA.
Otherwise if you are getting error codes have a pen or pencila nd paper ready to quickly write down the error code and description to google it afterward and look into nirsoft bluescreen viewer (which will need to be viewed immediately after a bsod since if you have Another the log might get wiped from the previous copy the dumps to a separate folder ont he desktop to back them up and you can google search those codes directly into abrowser from nirsoft's bluescreenview program).
If the issue turns out to be the psu,t hat can fry other parts with it when it goes, pretty much any or every other part or none at all if you're lucky. I had a capacitor blow in a psu while in the middle of playing l4d2 back in the day. Ironically it was almost a week before the episode of the guild came out where that happened to somebody in that which made me lol pretty hard. It didn't take anything with it when it went, but it sounded like a loud firecracker almost a gunshot in the room, and black smoke was coming out the back of it and I yanked the cord out the wall faster than barry allen. Scared the hell out of the roommate I had at that time because he was sleeping when it happened. Iirc, he though we were getting robbed and shot at or something. Funny as hell looking back.
After the black screen and forced reboot, I sometimes see on boot that my PC gets a blue screen where it says it couldn't boot. This lead me to believe that my file system was corrupt. To fix this I did a full reinstall of Windows 10, this didn't fix the issue either.
I am currently testing a number of things.
* Running an "sfc /scannow" I see that there was reported file system corruption in my case. This hasn't resolved the problem.
* I have also reviewed Event Viewer with no luck.
* I have also been reviewing the CPU, GPU, and Memory using an application called "Speccy" which everything seems to be healthy.
* I made sure that my GPU drivers were up-to-date. I also made sure I was on the latest Windows 10 updates.
* None of the temperatures reached anything concerning when the black screen occurred.
Moving forward, I am still experiencing this issue. I have ordered two new SSDs to try and have the game installed on a drive that does not have the Windows OS on it.
Should the SSD not help, I will be ordering a new PSU.
Hopefully I can report back some helpful information.
At this current moment in time, I am making the assumption that this is some sort of bug.
I think it should be noted that I had no problem playing this game until I reinstalled it on my with my Windows OS.
The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly.
Man if it's the PSU i'ma be pissed its just over 2 years old -.-
Bad fix, but fix.
I hope the developers will fix it in code, and maybe share information about the reason (interesting on a technical level)
What is happening here is an issue with hardware, drivers, or OS patches.
So, for Random, we know what the issue and solution was bad PSU replaced. Pretty common really. For fast, not sure what your issue might be, but probably something with the GPU or RAM.
The "best" way to fix these type of issues are to run a logging software on the PC during a crash. Record temperature, voltage, and loads. That should be enough to point in the right direction. Obviously, update all drivers and install any OS patches.
I could tell something was wrong when I first clicked play because there was a long pause. The game started...crepted in view at the title screen, froze up and BAMP!!!! Black screen and sound stuck in a loop. Could not alt-tab-delete to taskmanager or anything. I had to pull the plug on power and I hate doing that to my PC.
I am too afraid to run the game again so I will be uninstalling it.
It's sad that gaming companies are so fixed on taking our money for a game but do not care about the quality of the products they sell to gamers. I know the good old days of gaming are long gone, but come on... Don't destroy the industry altogether by producing computer breaking garbage!
I am running a sfc /scannow... And when I go to bed, I will do a full hard drive scan. I want to make sure Baldur's Gate 3 didn't destroy or plant anything on my PC.
For those who say software can't crash a computer, you are sadly wrong. It's called an unhandled exception. Take it from someone who has been programming for 15+ years now. If you leave an unhandled exception...for example, lets say on the graphics card side (or graphics pipeline)... That exception can cause your graphics card to crash because it doesn't know how to handle the error and as a result, blackscreen and broken sound (or worst).
I do believe that's what Baldur's Gate 3 did.... It caused an unhandle exception that crashed my graphics drivers. I have seen other games with bad code down the graphics pipeline which caused artifacts on the screen and graphic glitches but those kind of errors won't crash a PC as long as there isn't any unhandle exceptions.
It's not the PSU... If you can run other games and software just fine and have never hand this kind of crash, it's probably the software throwing exceptions that are not handled. You have to keep in mind... Some games will modify your system when you run them, like jack up your clock speeds. You can easily cause someones system to crash if you don't know what you're doing and write code that modify a computer system on the fly.
Baldur's Gate 3 is a PC death trap and should be avoided at all cost!
If you really are a programmer for 15 years, you didn't learn much in that time.
You are mixing half-truths with hyperbole and present it like the game will seriously damage your PC components as a given.
Needless fearmongering, dude.
To add some context to how much your opinion should be trusted:
According to you, your own game, that looks worse than sample games from programming handbooks, is "one of the best, none pay-to-win game apps available!"
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=shieltresst.com.hcuwts
There was some good advice in the thread so far how to approach these kind of errors and to solve them. Your post... wasn't.
For those interested:
- The game crashing to your desktop is most likely a software problem between the game and/or your (GPU) drivers.
- The whole PC crashing and restarting is most likely hardware related. Too high clock speeds _could_ be the problem. A game like Baldur's Gate won't make your GPU's clock speeds go above what your GPU drivers / software is allowing by default already, though.