Bricked 3090 GPU

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Dear Blizzard

Tonight I was playing Diablo 4 and I went to attack/participate in an event (whatever the bosses/events in the circles are). When I was about halfway though the event, both of my screens went blank. After trouble shooting and plugging into my built in GPU, I was able to determine that my GPU was bricked.

No lights, no RBG, not being recognized by my computer at all.

Make/Model: EVGA 3090 FTW3
Settings:
Windowed (fullscreen)
Drivers were the game day Nvidia release drivers
3840x2160
Sharpen 6
Max Foreground FPS 150
Max Background FPS 8
Quality Low

I know you had issues in the beta, but seriously, this should have been fixed for a released game, and if you could not fix it, you should have delayed it/pushed it back.

Now is the time for you to be transparent on this issue. What is going on, and what are you planning on doing to fix it.

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the fact that theres no one else losing their minds over having a bricked gpu makes this kinda sus, like i dont doubt your gpu broke while playing d4, but i wonder if its really related to it, so far i havent seen any other reports, and i feel like there should be a lot more if this was actually an issue with the game itself.

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How is it Blizzard’s fault you bricked your own hardware?

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shoulda bought a second PC just in case :clown_face:

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There was an emergency driver update for nvidia like 40 hours ago, specifically for diablo 4. Probably would have saved your card had you checked or enabled auto updates.

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While its easy to blame blizzard, i was checking my drives every day for days leading up to friday, and then left it up during the pre launch incase something like that happened.

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My 3090 is putting work in just fine. Sorry.

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Have the same card with no issues so far. Hope it’s all good :grimacing:

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Seems like its mostly NVIDIA cards having issues

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Running 3080 FTW3 EVGA on 4K with 0 issues here.

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My 4090 hasn’t gotten above 75*

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my 3090 stays at 40-50. fan cooled to, but I changed the fan settings and i run the GPU in high performance mode.

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Or maybe “I tried OC my video card and now it won’t work”

In 30 years, I have NEVR SEEN A EVGA video card brick.

not once.

ever.

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I am using RTX3090 too.
GPU temp about 75C hot spot / memory < 90C
They have fine tuned it already, at beta my GPU fan near full load…
Game can’t brick the GPU if the GPU don’t have problem…

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and extremely fast SSDs

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This I wish they were still around had them from the 460 to the 3080 ftw3 and never ever had a evga die

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There’s multiple reports of GPUs being fried along with other GPU related issues.

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Overclocking can’t brick a modern GPU unless you flash a different VBIOS or try to physically modify the card. The worst that can happen is a program becomes unresponsive, you get artifacting, or you just instantly crash back to the desktop screen.

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Hardware breaks unfortunately. Not necessarily DIV’s fault.

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Except their frame rate bug was breaking cards in beta for people who didn’t have it set in control panel as a back up. NW did the same thing on their launch. You can’t trust the devs to do the basics in any game anymore. Always set a max in your control panel.

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I mean there is never really a good reason to exceed your monitors refresh rate in frames, even more so when it comes to exceeding a games intended frame rate. so just because you can push 800 fps, doesnt mean you should.

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