DO NOT BUY THIS GAME.

[Filthy peasant]

This is just some friendly advice from a guy that had his GPU busted because of this game. I love playing bad games i can normally look past graphical issues, minor crashes, annoying glitches and bugs, that will normally not stop me from playing crrappy games just because i enjoy doing so, that said this game has ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ me over royally. I was playing it normally until my graphics glitched and it blue screened, i dont joke around with blue screens so i imediately went for a refund, later that day i went to play a game i play everyday and my pc crashed again with a similar looking graphical glitch, when i booted my pc back up it blue screened and thus i was never able to start it up again, i sent it to a techinician and after a week of wait he told me my graphics card was fried, i could not believe a single bad game fried my GPU.
Now i know pcs are complicated things, my graphics card could've already been under stress but that doesn't change the fact that this game was the catalyst to ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ my ♥♥♥♥♥ up.
I am now sitting for a whole week on my notebook without anything to play because i do not have the money roght now to buy a new card, i literally hate this game for this.

TL;DR: this game fried my Nvidia card, it could happen to you, dont buy it, its garbage anyway.

[Christopher]

I doubt the game actually fried your GPU. it just so happened you were playing this game when it crapped out on you. If it hadn't happened while playing this game it would've most likely happened with whatever else you were playing instead.

[Filthy peasant]

As i said, the game may have been the catalyst to actually doing it, my gpu had 4,5 years of use so it might've been damaged already. I also found it really strange the game would've done that to my card as games do not write and change stuff in your computer, they are only read, nonetheless the game is absolute garbage and a crash was the way it took my card out.

Originally posted by Christopher:

I doubt the game actually fried your GPU. it just so happened you were playing this game when it crapped out on you. If it hadn't happened while playing this game it would've most likely happened with whatever else you were playing instead.

[まりさ]

4,5 years is extremely long lifespan for GPU. I'm really sure, game didn't break your GPU.

My video card fried while being on desktop, so i need to blame Microsoft for breaking my GPU? It lived around 3 years. Time to try to fix it with oven trick in some point, it may fix or permanently getting dead.

[THE_CROW (Divinitus Salutaris)]

Game's can't broke or killed the GPU's. Only the user killer that. I've Amd HD 6990 since 2010 and I'm playing this game without problem. I think so you are missed some things for the stable OS componenets or You need give more information about your system specs for the talking right ?

[Jackal]

games can break your GPU/ system level brick your entire computer
notably the beta for an mmo called anarchy online would completely brick your entire computer on an bios level
google it if you dont believe me, ive been beta testing games since like.. 1995 and have been a professional tester for major companies

[Filthy peasant]

I would mostly play dota and other bigger games on steam at the time, then when i tried AinD something this harsh happened, i know my GPU was indeed old but it seemed a bit too weird for it to just die since everything else was working perfectly. I'm still not sure what really happened but this game isnt worth anyones time wether it can kill your GPU or not.

Originally posted by Jackal:

games can break your GPU/ system level brick your entire computer
notably the beta for an mmo called anarchy online would completely brick your entire computer on an bios level
google it if you dont believe me, ive been beta testing games since like.. 1995 and have been a professional tester for major companies

[Kyrii]

The game may have just been the straw that snapped the camel in half.

Crysis fried both of my 8800's in 2011 and Rage crippled the replacement 8800's in April 2012. Ever since switching to AMD the only issue I have had was a fan blade snapping. granted, it was entirely my fault. I tried fidgeting the damn thing while it was in operation AND while I was drunk.

I'm buying this game due to the sale, and because I'm a fan of bad games :>

If my card gets fried, it's alrigtht. I have two other buff cards on standbye :)

[Filthy peasant]

good luck mate

[PCConsoleGamer]

Originally posted by East coast rapist:

This is just some friendly advice from a guy that had his GPU busted because of this game. I love playing bad games i can normally look past graphical issues, minor crashes, annoying glitches and bugs, that will normally not stop me from playing crrappy games just because i enjoy doing so, that said this game has ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ me over royally. I was playing it normally until my graphics glitched and it blue screened, i dont joke around with blue screens so i imediately went for a refund, later that day i went to play a game i play everyday and my pc crashed again with a similar looking graphical glitch, when i booted my pc back up it blue screened and thus i was never able to start it up again, i sent it to a techinician and after a week of wait he told me my graphics card was fried, i could not believe a single bad game fried my GPU.
Now i know pcs are complicated things, my graphics card could've already been under stress but that doesn't change the fact that this game was the catalyst to ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ my ♥♥♥♥♥ up.
I am now sitting for a whole week on my notebook without anything to play because i do not have the money roght now to buy a new card, i literally hate this game for this.

TL;DR: this game fried my Nvidia card, it could happen to you, dont buy it, its garbage anyway.

If your running anything above a single core processor, try this-pause the game, then hit ctrl+alt+delete, and bring up the task manager. Look at the processes tab, and find your game. as soon as you do, right click, and see where it says set affinty. uncheck all the boxes you see, except for cpu 1, then click ok.

[Sniper Wolf]

The game didn't fry your GPU, accept that your GPU was ♥♥♥♥♥♥ anyway and don't be silly.

[Jafa]

"How would you like your GPU?"

JUST ♥♥♥♥ MY GPU UP FAM

[Rawex]

Originally posted by Christopher:

I doubt the game actually fried your GPU. it just so happened you were playing this game when it crapped out on you. If it hadn't happened while playing this game it would've most likely happened with whatever else you were playing instead.

I think he is probably right in this, that it happend in the game, was just chance, would probably had happend anyway.

[OphisThemis]

Don´t go full ♥♥♥♥♥♥, the GPU died of old age, that´s it.

[BLaZiNgSPEED]

No, that can't be right. I've heard similar stories like this about Crysis frying up their graphics card.

What I am suspecting is that the graphics card was clogged with dust already for which the OP did not clean. When the fans clog up with dust, not only does the card heat up more often than usual. The fans also fail to spin properly. I know this from personal experience. I once had a Sapphire ATI HD 4890 years ago only single fan was clogged with dust. When I checked the temperatures it was going to 90 degrees Celsius.

Ok so what did I do? I opened up my case and checked the card and found out grey dust clogged in the single fan. When trying to spin it with my finger the fan was struggling to move. At this point I took an electric pump (the ones used to blow air beds). Blew it for a few minutes and removed the entire dust out of the card. Then cleaned the edges with tissue.

After that the temperatures went back to normal 65 degrees max.

Now imagine if I didn't do that in time and I played a game like Alone in the Dark or Crysis which was graphics GPU intensive and it went to exceed 90 degrees? Probably the card would've fried.

But because I took action to properly clear out the dust that's why I saved the card. In this case I can't blame the game for frying the card. The card was already clogged with dust in the first place for which the game instigated further heating up. Hence leading to a card that has fried up.

Always monitor from time to time the CPU and GPU temperatures and give it a good clean every 6 months. As dust enters the computer case. Particularly those gaming cases with large number of holes. Dust enters inside it and then goes to the GPU, CPU heatsink, etc.