GAME JUST FRIED MY SSD!!

[TopShagger]

Stay miles away from this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of a game. I just now read, that there is a known issue that the game may break people's hardware - after it now just happened to me. Game crashed while in a loading screen, causing me to hard reset my computer and now it's kicking me right into bios saying no bootable medium found, which was my SSD.
How can this be "allowed" ? I'm insanely mad right now that I even bought this piece of ♥♥♥♥ game. I advise people that have the same game crashed as I do - stay away from it until this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ is eventuallly fixed I guess

[Simon Bar Sinister]

Originally posted by TopShagger:

Stay miles away from this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of a game. I just now read, that there is a known issue that the game may break people's hardware - after it now just happened to me. Game crashed while in a loading screen, causing me to hard reset my computer and now it's kicking me right into bios saying no bootable medium found, which was my SSD.
How can this be "allowed" ? I'm insanely mad right now that I even bought this piece of ♥♥♥♥ game. I advise people that have the same game crashed as I do - stay away from it until this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ is eventuallly fixed I guess

I caught aids while playing this game...How can this be allowed? Stay away from it.

[Rhophius]

Originally posted by TopShagger:

Stay miles away from this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of a game. I just now read, that there is a known issue that the game may break people's hardware - after it now just happened to me. Game crashed while in a loading screen, causing me to hard reset my computer and now it's kicking me right into bios saying no bootable medium found, which was my SSD.
How can this be "allowed" ? I'm insanely mad right now that I even bought this piece of ♥♥♥♥ game. I advise people that have the same game crashed as I do - stay away from it until this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ is eventuallly fixed I guess

so how are you posting this if you cant get out of your bios due to non found hardware?

i call bs on this

[SkaldedDawg]

You guys are super smart.

[Enferno]

This game does in fact crash A LOT. It has absolutely nothing to do with Windows 11 or your CPU or GPU or drivers, period. That is the first thing that people do is point fingers elsewhere, if it were a Windows 11 or CPU/GPU thing then we'd have this problem on EVERY game, not just this one. Most people cannot use that thing between their ears. This game is very poorly optimized. Tons of players are having issues with this game freezing / crashing, just google ffs.

My PC:
MB: MSI PRO B650-VC WIFI (MS-7D78)
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 4.2 GHz
RAM: Kingston Hyper Fury 64GB DDR5 5200MHz
SSD: M.2 1TB NVME Gen4 (Windows) and MP34 M.2 2280 4TB (GAMES) 3500 read/write (5TB Total)
GPU: MSI NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti
PSU: EVGA 850W 80+ GOLD PSU
MON: LG ULTRAGEAR 2560x1440 165Hz
O/S: Windows 11 Home - 64-bit
ISP: Fiber 1,000 Mbps Down / 1,000 Mbps Up

All drivers up to date. No 3rd party programs installed to interfere with this game. I have zero issues with ANY other game installed. I can video / screenshot to prove it. I play D4 for 14-18 hours a day with no crashes or freezes, period. Same PC, same ISP, Same drivers. I play RDR2 online with zero issues, Path of Titans with zero issues, Skull and Bones with zero issues, ESO with zero issues, the list goes on and on, again with zero issues.

It's 100% this game and a lot of players are having these same issues. Just because everyone isn't having the issues, doesn't mean that others aren't. I just logged on this morning and only played about 10 minutes in a map before it locked up trying to load into the next one and I had to do a hard reset being you cannot even alt+tab out or pull up your task manager or anything to just close the game itself. I don't know if it fried this guy's SSD, but I wouldn't doubt it being we have to hard reset many times in a day, but I'm out, so glad that I didn't spend money on this POS game as it was gifted to me. I'll go back to D4, it's much better anyhow.

I'm not here to argue, just stating facts and if you cannot accept that then it's on you.

[Malvictus]

I had a similar weird issue with my WD Black SSD last week. POE2 crashed during game play and hard locked my PC so i had to shut it down.

When i rebooted, Windows couldn't find the SSD anymore, and of course i thought it had failed and caused the crash. After a few tries i took out the drive and ran windows without it, then put the SSD back in and suddenly it was working fine.

I still have no idea what happened with it, but it's had no issues ever since lol

[qsnoopyjr]

Consider yourself lucky.

In some neck of the woods, there are explosions.
Have you heard of the phone explosions in the middle east?

Better to have hardware failure than hardware explosion.

[Detergent]

Originally posted by Rhophius:

so how are you posting this if you cant get out of your bios due to non found hardware?

i call bs on this

To be fair, people these days have numerous devices that can connect to the internet. phone, tablet, laptop, old pc, thermostat, toaster, dog bed, and anything and everything else with wifi.

@OP
SSDs die. Its the 2nd best thing they are good at... right after storing data.
When they do die, its easy to blame the last thing you ran before its death. But literally millions of other people playing without issue and you have to take this into consideration.

[Caduryn]

Originally posted by TopShagger:

Stay miles away from this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of a game. I just now read, that there is a known issue that the game may break people's hardware - after it now just happened to me. Game crashed while in a loading screen, causing me to hard reset my computer and now it's kicking me right into bios saying no bootable medium found, which was my SSD.
How can this be "allowed" ? I'm insanely mad right now that I even bought this piece of ♥♥♥♥ game. I advise people that have the same game crashed as I do - stay away from it until this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ is eventuallly fixed I guess

No, Games dont do that...

You know this Game has millions of Players?

YOU are the one and only one makes it clear that the fault is on your Computer.

[Caduryn]

Originally posted by Enferno:

This game does in fact crash A LOT. It has absolutely nothing to do with Windows 11 or your CPU or GPU or drivers, period. That is the first thing that people do is point fingers elsewhere, if it were a Windows 11 or CPU/GPU thing then we'd have this problem on EVERY game, not just this one. Most people cannot use that thing between their ears. This game is very poorly optimized. Tons of players are having issues with this game freezing / crashing, just google ffs.

My PC:
MB: MSI PRO B650-VC WIFI (MS-7D78)
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 4.2 GHz
RAM: Kingston Hyper Fury 64GB DDR5 5200MHz
SSD: M.2 1TB NVME Gen4 (Windows) and MP34 M.2 2280 4TB (GAMES) 3500 read/write (5TB Total)
GPU: MSI NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti
PSU: EVGA 850W 80+ GOLD PSU
MON: LG ULTRAGEAR 2560x1440 165Hz
O/S: Windows 11 Home - 64-bit
ISP: Fiber 1,000 Mbps Down / 1,000 Mbps Up

All drivers up to date. No 3rd party programs installed to interfere with this game. I have zero issues with ANY other game installed. I can video / screenshot to prove it. I play D4 for 14-18 hours a day with no crashes or freezes, period. Same PC, same ISP, Same drivers. I play RDR2 online with zero issues, Path of Titans with zero issues, Skull and Bones with zero issues, ESO with zero issues, the list goes on and on, again with zero issues.

It's 100% this game and a lot of players are having these same issues. Just because everyone isn't having the issues, doesn't mean that others aren't. I just logged on this morning and only played about 10 minutes in a map before it locked up trying to load into the next one and I had to do a hard reset being you cannot even alt+tab out or pull up your task manager or anything to just close the game itself. I don't know if it fried this guy's SSD, but I wouldn't doubt it being we have to hard reset many times in a day, but I'm out, so glad that I didn't spend money on this POS game as it was gifted to me. I'll go back to D4, it's much better anyhow.

I'm not here to argue, just stating facts and if you cannot accept that then it's on you.

Blame Win 11 i would say, and NOT the Game, i have zero, and i mean absolutly zero crashes so far.

[baalthazaar]

Originally posted by TopShagger:

Stay miles away from this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of a game. I just now read, that there is a known issue that the game may break people's hardware - after it now just happened to me. Game crashed while in a loading screen, causing me to hard reset my computer and now it's kicking me right into bios saying no bootable medium found, which was my SSD.
How can this be "allowed" ? I'm insanely mad right now that I even bought this piece of ♥♥♥♥ game. I advise people that have the same game crashed as I do - stay away from it until this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ is eventuallly fixed I guess

Welcome to PC gaming. Is this your first hardware failure? It will happen, and it sucks. But you'll just need to replace the part and move on.

[Space Cowboy]

So, the freeze itself likely didn't kill the SSD but I think it's fair to say that hardware generally doesn't like hard resets, especially when it comes to storage and possibly other hardware depending on the general quality of your PSU. But, yeah, you basically have to cut power in this case and cutting power from 100 to 0 is a strain on electronics/higher chance for failure for sure even if 99% of the time things will work out. So, I think GGG (possibly in conjunction with Microsoft) definitely need to make this their top priority.

Originally posted by TopShagger:

Stay miles away from this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of a game. I just now read, that there is a known issue that the game may break people's hardware - after it now just happened to me. Game crashed while in a loading screen, causing me to hard reset my computer and now it's kicking me right into bios saying no bootable medium found, which was my SSD.
How can this be "allowed" ? I'm insanely mad right now that I even bought this piece of ♥♥♥♥ game. I advise people that have the same game crashed as I do - stay away from it until this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ is eventuallly fixed I guess

Btw, might be that your SSD isn't fried but that only the file system is scrambled. Before buying anything new, try to get your hands on a Windows 11 bootable USB stick (you or a friend can create one with Microsofts "media creation tool") and use it to run CHKDSK from it. Specifically
CHKDSK C: /f /R
Although, the USB stick might put your SSD on a different drive letter, so change C: to wherever the SSD is. If this works, your SSD is still A-Okay.

[JohnMiller92]

srry for your loss sir. i put in a ticket for you

[serotoninpack]

Are you sure you didn't fry your SSD trying to shag it?

[Captain Worthy]

Hard freezes are a known issue when you have Win 11 24H2 version installed. It's entirely Microsoft's fault, and this is not the only game affected.

https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/gamers-beware-windows-11-24h2-update-could-wreck-your-colors-and-crash-your-games

[Blackheart6004]

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