Poe2 killed my GPU

So I have seen a a few Posts saying that the Game crashing killed Parts of peoples Systems and didn't really believe it, but now it happened to me aswell and Poe2 can litterally be the only reason it happened.

I bought a new PC at the end of last year and got it on 24th December. Since then the only Game i have installed and played on it is Poe2. Now I got one of these freezes people talk about when trying to enter a Map. I waited a few Minutes before I waited and my PC restarted alone but my Screen was now Green/Red/Blue pixels. I called the Support where I bought my PC and they instantly said it's your GPU so they sent me a new one and I sent back back the old one. Installed the new GPU and everything works fine again and they tested my old one and it in fact is broken.

So can we get any Word from GGG about this Since it now happened on a Brand new GPU with the only Game being played on it being Poe2?

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IshikawaSenju#7954 wrote:

So I have seen a a few Posts saying that the Game crashing killed Parts of peoples Systems and didn't really believe it, but now it happened to me aswell and Poe2 can litterally be the only reason it happened.

I bought a new PC at the end of last year and got it on 24th December. Since then the only Game i have installed and played on it is Poe2. Now I got one of these freezes people talk about when trying to enter a Map. I waited a few Minutes before I waited and my PC restarted alone but my Screen was now Green/Red/Blue pixels. I called the Support where I bought my PC and they instantly said it's your GPU so they sent me a new one and I sent back back the old one. Installed the new GPU and everything works fine again and they tested my old one and it in fact is broken.

So can we get any Word from GGG about this Since it now happened on a Brand new GPU with the only Game being played on it being Poe2?

If PoE2 was the only game you played on your system, how can you be sure it’s entirely PoE2’s fault? Without issues in other high-end games like Cyberpunk 2077, your point would hold more weight. But since you don’t know if your GPU would have failed with a different game, blaming PoE2 alone lacks solid grounding.

Your GPU might have already had an underlying issue, and starting PoE2 simply pushed it over the edge when it came under stress. The failure could have happened with any demanding game, not necessarily due to PoE2 alone.

So your GPU was broken out of the box and you now have a working unit?

I fail to see the issue here.

Your GPU was already damaged when you got it, this has nothing to do with the game...

A game cannot do anything to break a GPU except to demand a lot from it. Demanding a lot can overheat and any lingerign problem may be drastically accelerated.



People.. just enable VSync.. and stop letting your GPUs work like mad maniacs for nothing

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Urza_Mechwalker#7393 wrote:

A game cannot do anything to break a GPU except to demand a lot from it. Demanding a lot can overheat and any lingerign problem may be drastically accelerated.



People.. just enable VSync.. and stop letting your GPUs work like mad maniacs for nothing

Exactly this! No game can damage your hardware directly.

Story makes sense.
I always wondered why game that looks like starcraft 1 needs this much resources in poe1 case.
Guess with poe2 + tencent we actually have a full on miner since it runs even worse.
Also don't read what people above said, there have been plenty of games that fried gpu, recent example is that garbage Amazon's mmo New World or whatever it was called

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IshikawaSenju#7954 wrote:

So I have seen a a few Posts saying that the Game crashing killed Parts of peoples Systems and didn't really believe it, but now it happened to me aswell and Poe2 can litterally be the only reason it happened.

I bought a new PC at the end of last year and got it on 24th December. Since then the only Game i have installed and played on it is Poe2. Now I got one of these freezes people talk about when trying to enter a Map. I waited a few Minutes before I waited and my PC restarted alone but my Screen was now Green/Red/Blue pixels. I called the Support where I bought my PC and they instantly said it's your GPU so they sent me a new one and I sent back back the old one. Installed the new GPU and everything works fine again and they tested my old one and it in fact is broken.

So can we get any Word from GGG about this Since it now happened on a Brand new GPU with the only Game being played on it being Poe2?

That is simply impossible.

A graphics card is designed to run at 100% capacity indefinitely.

Running at max quality settings does nothing but increase the time it takes to render each frame.

If it takes 5ms to render a frame at medium settings your (average) frame rate will be 200fps. If you crank the settings to ultra-extreme-psychotic-nightmare the GPU might take 10ms to render each frame and your (average) frame rate drops to 100fps.

Either way, the GPU is going to be working at 100%—assuming the CPU can keep up. This is why almost all RTX 3080/3090 or the top tier Radeons all have three GPU fans and beefy fin stacks. They will be trying to cool something that puts out a continuous 300W to 400W of heat.

Many of these cards are over-engineered so that they can keep GPU temps at or below 70°C at say, 80% fan speed for a more user-friendly experience.

The only possibility for damage is if it cause the graphics card to overheat, if airflow and pc cooling aren’t sufficient to keep it cool while handling the load.

Typically temps above high 80s (C) up into the 90’s aren’t good to have it at. High 80s, you’ll likely be fine but pushing it, but depends on the specific graphics card.
You should be able to google and look up max temps for your specific card. You can get program called HWiNFO that will monitor the temps of your cpu, gpu, drives, ect.
There’s other programs, but that’s what I use.
You can set it make a sound alert if a component gets above a certain temperature.
Then just leave running while gaming and then if your graphics card if getting too hot you’ll know and can lower settings, turn up fan speed, or whatever you need to/can do to try and lower the temperature it gets to.


So, to sum it up: Your graphics card was broken to begin with. POE 2 did not break it.

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Alivkos#3986 wrote:

Also don't read what people above said, there have been plenty of games that fried gpu, recent example is that garbage Amazon's mmo New World or whatever it was called

Dude, games don't fry GPUs. You have no technical knowledge and try to give false advice here. A game itself can never damage a healthy GPU. Only if the GPU already had problems before it can completely break as soon as a game demands full power from it.

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Alivkos#3986 wrote:

Story makes sense.
I always wondered why game that looks like starcraft 1 needs this much resources in poe1 case.
Guess with poe2 + tencent we actually have a full on miner since it runs even worse.
Also don't read what people above said, there have been plenty of games that fried gpu, recent example is that garbage Amazon's mmo New World or whatever it was called

Nope, it's never the application developer's job to monitor and throttle the GPU.