Anyone else lose a graphics card while playing this?

[Ethically Sized Duck]

Playing this, nothing else loaded, then poof. Graphics Card has been Non-op since.

Has anyone else had something similar?

[LeftIsBest-James]

I heard about Hogwarts doing this.
Apparently an unfortunate combination of users overclocking their GPUs and the Game maxing out their cards.
Hogwarts patched in some limiters after that.

edit: Correction: it was Diablo4 that bricked graphics cards
https://www.ginx.tv/en/diablo-4/bricked-gpu-fix

I've not heard this with TLOU users.

[episoder]

don't try to start this sh!t to flame the game. honestly. if a graphics card dies it's a general hardware issue. cheap components or user error, aka unstable overclocks without safety. or it reached the end of it's lifecycle. hardware does degrade. at some point it does not work anymore. if it happened while playing tlou it's just coincidence. you coulda played any other game that stressed the gpu too much to bite the dust.

games in general don't kill hardware.

[Ethically Sized Duck]

Originally posted by episoder:

don't try to start this sh!t to flame the game. honestly. if a graphics card dies it's a general hardware issue. cheap components or user error, aka unstable overclocks without safety. or it reached the end of it's lifecycle. hardware does degrade. at some point it does not work anymore. if it happened while playing tlou it's just coincidence. you coulda played any other game that stressed the gpu too much to bite the dust.

games in general don't kill hardware.

I'm not saying to flame anything against the game, I genuinely liked my experience while playing. No other bugs or issues until the screens all died while playing it.

I've had the 3080 for less than 6 months, no issues on any other game. Nothing else was running in the background, no overclocking in use, just the game and then poof, broken.

Coincidence or not, it's my next step in troubleshooting. If others experience a break, then that *could* explain my issue.
Cables are new, PSU is new, and I'm waiting for new MB/CPU to come in.

Also, badly ported games can break gpu/cpu. Diablo 4 the most recent that I'm aware of. Anthem broke the Playstation. ETC.

Please don't simp for the game and say that I'm just trying start ♥♥♥♥ or that it's impossible/improbable, when it is *possible* that the game has busted my components.

[Cujo]

Games are never at fault. It's bad hardware that causes faults.

[acowsik]

Already there is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ thread about TLOU shader compilation causing CPUs to run super hot... yes the load on CPU during that process is a lot higher than usual but if people dont have sufficient cooling, you are going to be throttling bad.

[Ethically Sized Duck]

Originally posted by acowsik:

Already there is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ thread about TLOU shader compilation causing CPUs to run super hot... yes the load on CPU during that process is a lot higher than usual but if people dont have sufficient cooling, you are going to be throttling bad.

Wasn't ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ about the game, was only asking if anyone else had the same issue. But, thank you for pointing out the CPU overheat thing. When it first happened, I swapped to the motherboard to see what was going on and the monitors loaded. I tried just a few minutes ago, and it won't load anymore. So I will be checking out the CPU when the new one comes in.

Thanks!

[_APA [~sudo]]

Originally posted by Perziety:

Playing this, nothing else loaded, then poof. Graphics Card has been Non-op since.

Has anyone else had something similar?

What GPU did you have? I do not think a Game can cause GPU bust as GPU has its own safety mechanism

[Truth_X_ile]

I DON'T HAVE YOUR ISSUE BUT...

It could have just been a defective thing with your GPU, not everything is made perfect, even new things can break because of an issue, that's where warranties come into play, I suggest you get a replacement, if you can that is, but to say it is the games fault, it's not the game, your beefy GPU should be able to play anything, but something went wrong, overclocking is a common issue in gaming if the user doesn't know what they are doing, that can cause problems

It's wise to note that hardware especially in PC Gaming is a complicated topic, people just assume just because it's strong and powerful that it works, that's not entirely the cause, while things can be defective and even if they aren't, hardware compatibility or updates are needed to balance such features especially in newer games to make accessible for adequate gameplay with near to no issues, it could be that in your case that some of Drivers weren't updated & didn't make it to your GPU then made it do what it did, either by a rare case scenario or neglect of updating your Drivers

960 CAN PLAY, BUT A 3080 CAN'T, LAUGHABLE

I play on a GTX 960 that I got for my first PC in 2016 and I have no issues with this game and 100% all achievements in Hogwarts Legacy as well, besides 1 crash & 1 please wait fortunately in the Last of Us, everything else works fine, but those two seems to be common issues when searching Steam forums

Good Luck & Have Fun

[Azrael._.xd]

Originally posted by episoder:

don't try to start this sh!t to flame the game. honestly. if a graphics card dies it's a general hardware issue. cheap components or user error, aka unstable overclocks without safety. or it reached the end of it's lifecycle. hardware does degrade. at some point it does not work anymore. if it happened while playing tlou it's just coincidence. you coulda played any other game that stressed the gpu too much to bite the dust.

games in general don't kill hardware.

now I'm sure you are working for them. guys don't listen to this b.... he is in every discussion harassing people for having problem with this disaster port. stop swallowing naughty dogs balls

[Nick930]

Originally posted by Perziety:

I've had the 3080 for less than 6 months, no issues on any other game.

It could very well be that you received one of those "crypto mining" cards from back when that was a big thing. I remember hearing that users buying older cards might get scammed with cards like that. Thing was probably ruined long before you got it.

But this game in particular is not going to "fry" your GPU. If anything, it would toast your CPU (exaggeration), but even then - systems are designed with safeguards in place and would force a full restart if your system overheated to the point of doing any damage.

[LeftIsBest-James]

You're referring to Diablo4 bricking cards. This has since been fixed.
It's all over the internet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7leGjSOZYOY

[ant_sh]

Originally posted by Perziety:

Playing this, nothing else loaded, then poof. Graphics Card has been Non-op since. Has anyone else had something similar?

I had similar thing on rtx 3060. In my experience it is usually caused by too much VRAM allocated and driver crashing. After this GPU is marked with ! in Device Manager and even after reboot it is still marked and non-accelerated VGA driver is loaded instead of nVidia's one. I removed the GPU device and scanned for new hardware, it found it and loaded nVidia driver.