BG3 is a System Killer.

[TheGuruGame]

on around 1-3-24 i did a slight CPU upgrade , i went from a i5-8600 to a i7-9700KF
I played a couple of high system demanding games on that new setup and nothing negative happend for a couple of days.

Until..

3-3-24, i installed BG3 on my pc. My pc is/was not the best, but also i think its not the worst also..
i7-9700KF with RTX 3070-TI and 32 gig DDR4 and a B-Q 750Watt platinum PSU.
Also mobo was not a bad one.. a MSI B360 Carbon Gaming Pro..
CPU Cooler is a Scythe Mugen 2 Rev. B. (load Temps around +/- 65-75 Celcius i think is normal)

B4 getting to the short death story, i want to say i did not have any issue with any other game that i have played those days on that system..
I also played BG3 before my Upgraded CPU (on my older i5-8600) and nothing happend.

So after installing the game, with my newer CPU (9700KF) i started it up, loaded my last save file, i was just looking around checking the fps and temps and stuff not playing the game really..

The graphics settings at that moment was all high and ultra. it went ok at start, but after like 1 min orso i thought a plane was passing by orsomthing, but it was all my fans in my case going All-Out..

After that, i lowered the graphics settings from High / Ultra to Medium / High, but it did not make a difference, at that moment and before that moment, i was not watching my temps... but when i did check the temps after, lowering the graphics setting i saw my CPU running on 100C...

i thought damnnnn...

and maybe 5 seconds after that my pc started hard Lagging, just huge lag spikes.. i closed the game instant, i closed my pc and went to bed , cause it was getting very late and i was very tired..

next day i wanted to start up my pc.. it did not want to start up..
it wanted to power on, but it immediately powered itself off.. i kept doing this in cycles..

Instant Depression kicked in...

After 4 or 5 days of Hardware Testing, (It took that long, cause i also have a Other Job)

I Tested Different CPU's , Different GPU's , Different PSU's , Testing RAM one by one and stuff.. I did finally found the problem.. and it was the MOBO that Got fried (the MSI B360 Gaming Carbon Pro)

Soo.. I was able to find another MOBO (A ASUS Maximus Hero) for Cheap
Put in the rest of the hardware, also needed to buy a new Windows Licence ofc -.- cause i like to do things legit.. Started up my system and now everything works again..

Soo, thats what happend..

So now, I wil just Uninstall this game forever..
and keep this as a good story for other ppl..

[Ellie]

CPU shouldn't hit 100c under any load if your system is able to move enough air through it. Can't really blame BG3 for bad ventilation.

[startrekmike]

Games can't really kill hardware like that. There is something else happening there.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by TheGuruGame:

BG3 is a System Killer.
on around 1-3-24 i did a slight CPU upgrade , i went from a i5-8600 to a i7-9700KF
I played a couple of high system demanding games on that new setup and nothing negative happend for a couple of days.

Until..

3-3-24, i installed BG3 on my pc. My pc is/was not the best, but also i think its not the worst also..
i7-9700KF with RTX 3070-TI and 32 gig DDR4 and a B-Q 750Watt platinum PSU.
Also mobo was not a bad one.. a MSI B360 Carbon Gaming Pro..
CPU Cooler is a Scythe Mugen 2 Rev. B. (load Temps around +/- 65-75 Celcius i think is normal)

B4 getting to the short death story, i want to say i did not have any issue with any other game that i have played those days on that system..
I also played BG3 before my Upgraded CPU (on my older i5-8600) and nothing happend.

So after installing the game, with my newer CPU (9700KF) i started it up, loaded my last save file, i was just looking around checking the fps and temps and stuff not playing the game really..

The graphics settings at that moment was all high and ultra. it went ok at start, but after like 1 min orso i thought a plane was passing by orsomthing, but it was all my fans in my case going All-Out..

After that, i lowered the graphics settings from High / Ultra to Medium / High, but it did not make a difference, at that moment and before that moment, i was not watching my temps... but when i did check the temps after, lowering the graphics setting i saw my CPU running on 100C...

i thought damnnnn...

and maybe 5 seconds after that my pc started hard Lagging, just huge lag spikes.. i closed the game instant, i closed my pc and went to bed , cause it was getting very late and i was very tired..

next day i wanted to start up my pc.. it did not want to start up..
it wanted to power on, but it immediately powered itself off.. i kept doing this in cycles..

Instant Depression kicked in...

After 4 or 5 days of Hardware Testing, (It took that long, cause i also have a Other Job)

I Tested Different CPU's , Different GPU's , Different PSU's , Testing RAM one by one and stuff.. I did finally found the problem.. and it was the MOBO that Got fried (the MSI B360 Gaming Carbon Pro)

Soo.. I was able to find another MOBO (A ASUS Maximus Hero) for Cheap
Put in the rest of the hardware, also needed to buy a new Windows Licence ofc -.- cause i like to do things legit.. Started up my system and now everything works again..

Soo, thats what happend..

So now, I wil just Uninstall this game forever..
and keep this as a good story for other ppl..

A PC's mainboard cannot get killed by a game. It can get killed by bad installation.

Your story's ending does not add up either and kinda concludes it is a made up story. You would not need to buy a new Windows license after a mainboard change. That is not how it works.

[Ellie]

Originally posted by startrekmike:

Games can't really kill hardware like that. There is something else happening there.

New World killed some 3090s, but yeah, not the same thing

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Lizzy:

Originally posted by startrekmike:

Games can't really kill hardware like that. There is something else happening there.

New World killed some 3090s, but yeah, not the same thing

It is important to add, that the conclusion of the story is not that actually amazon's New World killed the hardware. But more that the manufacturerers, specifically EVGA and some Gigabyte which cooperated with EVGA chips, had issues with their hardware which got shown by the driver, triggered by the game. Even without New World the issue would have persisted with the hardware, dormant and waiting for another thing to cause the trigger.

[Piderman]

Originally posted by アンジェル:

You would not need to buy a new Windows license after a mainboard change. That is not how it works.

Yes it does. When you got a OEM-License.

[taniwhat]

It's not your system. Same ♥♥♥♥ is happening here with a system that copes with extreme CPU and GPU load. (Water cooled).

Runs BG3 quite happily for several hours, then it just won't run the game, not even if the machine is turned off for several hours an left to cool down.

Best guess is there's some nasty bug within the game they can't be bothered finding and fixing. They get better value by scamming good reviews of this pile of s....

"My god how the money rolls in"

[Bobbybowser]

Originally posted by TheGuruGame:

on around 1-3-24 i did a slight CPU upgrade , i went from a i5-8600 to a i7-9700KF
I played a couple of high system demanding games on that new setup and nothing negative happend for a couple of days.

Until..

3-3-24, i installed BG3 on my pc. My pc is/was not the best, but also i think its not the worst also..
i7-9700KF with RTX 3070-TI and 32 gig DDR4 and a B-Q 750Watt platinum PSU.
Also mobo was not a bad one.. a MSI B360 Carbon Gaming Pro..
CPU Cooler is a Scythe Mugen 2 Rev. B. (load Temps around +/- 65-75 Celcius i think is normal)

B4 getting to the short death story, i want to say i did not have any issue with any other game that i have played those days on that system..
I also played BG3 before my Upgraded CPU (on my older i5-8600) and nothing happend.

So after installing the game, with my newer CPU (9700KF) i started it up, loaded my last save file, i was just looking around checking the fps and temps and stuff not playing the game really..

The graphics settings at that moment was all high and ultra. it went ok at start, but after like 1 min orso i thought a plane was passing by orsomthing, but it was all my fans in my case going All-Out..

After that, i lowered the graphics settings from High / Ultra to Medium / High, but it did not make a difference, at that moment and before that moment, i was not watching my temps... but when i did check the temps after, lowering the graphics setting i saw my CPU running on 100C...

i thought damnnnn...

and maybe 5 seconds after that my pc started hard Lagging, just huge lag spikes.. i closed the game instant, i closed my pc and went to bed , cause it was getting very late and i was very tired..

next day i wanted to start up my pc.. it did not want to start up..
it wanted to power on, but it immediately powered itself off.. i kept doing this in cycles..

Instant Depression kicked in...

After 4 or 5 days of Hardware Testing, (It took that long, cause i also have a Other Job)

I Tested Different CPU's , Different GPU's , Different PSU's , Testing RAM one by one and stuff.. I did finally found the problem.. and it was the MOBO that Got fried (the MSI B360 Gaming Carbon Pro)

Soo.. I was able to find another MOBO (A ASUS Maximus Hero) for Cheap
Put in the rest of the hardware, also needed to buy a new Windows Licence ofc -.- cause i like to do things legit.. Started up my system and now everything works again..

Soo, thats what happend..

So now, I wil just Uninstall this game forever..
and keep this as a good story for other ppl..

NGL if your system can even reach 100c then it was a problem with you system and not the game. This game really gets my i7 6700k to work hard, but the cores don't go over 70c and the package temperature never reaches 70c. Sounds like your cooling solution/ventilation was faulty.

[HumWiz]

Most modern motherboards have some sort of auto-overclocking enabled by default.
JayzTwoCents had a video about it a few days ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s43Auv8ub7w
He even mentions examples of "My CPU is at 100c!What's wrong?" where it's probably the mb bios has raised the cpu power target to overclocking levels. (200+ Watts)

BG3 was just able to stress your CPU enough to cook some parts on the mb.

[Paroe]

Originally posted by Lizzy:

Originally posted by startrekmike:

Games can't really kill hardware like that. There is something else happening there.

New World killed some 3090s, but yeah, not the same thing

Actually, that was due to a flaw in those high-end cards that caused hardware-breaking voltage spikes rather than new world itself. That flaw was also exclusive to Nvidia cards, as the multiple announcements from Nvidia about it confirmed.
The other "killed" cards were confirmed to be from overclockers who had turned off basic safety features as well - which isnt a game issue in the slightest.

My awful rig with a ten year old card can run these games at 60 frames on medium graphics, the people with newer rigs and worse performance have always had **interesting** things going on that arent game related.

[dulany67]

Not buying any of this.

[guard65]

As fun as that all sounds, I run the game at below 40C all day long at 4k/60 without a single issue. It wouldn't have anything to do with your rigg or the chokes that MSI uses for power regulation, nah...

[Chaosolous]

Correlation is not causation.

[emreyigit1967]

The 9700KF is 5 years old. While it comfortably meets the recommended specs, a game causing difficulties on a chipset that outdated is not a "system killer".

The other issue is the CPU/GPU balance. Your CPU is massively underpowered relative to the CPU. It is not at all surprising that it cannot cope.

[Brian_the_Brute]

Definitely something wrong there hardware-wise. Since you just updated your processor, it sounds like you put too much thermal paste on during assembly which can act as an insulator rather than transfer heat properly. That or it's possible you didn't tighten it down enough to thin out the paste layer and get good contact between the processor and heat sink.

Also check fans and fan controls and make sure they scale with load.

Your system is a lot better than mine and shouldn't act like that, I have played this game several times over without thermal issues in 4K max settings with a i7-3930k/TitanX rig (10+ yrs old). I do, however, liquid cool the processor and card and use a Thermaltake case which lets my old stuff handle it.