Just ignore him, a typical attention-seeking troll. You have a good rig, very similar to mine in fact, but I have only played the betas and not the release version yet. I wonder if there’s a possibility one of your components happens to be faulty. Doesn’t really matter if they’re new, I once had a GPU fry after a couple months of use, and they said I just got unlucky with a part that was botched from the start.
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What others have already stated is that there are a small percentage of graphics cards out there that are defective.
Diablo 4 only exposed these design flaws already present in said cards. It sucks but the graphics card manufacturer is at fault.
Your computer is overheating, and that is it’s last-ditch self-defense measure.
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Note that, at least with quality set to High, D4 defaults to a framerate of 150/second. Struggling to achieve that may be overstressing vulnerable cards. I already dialled it back to 100 this morning (when I discovered that 150 setting) … and next time I log in I’m probably going to dial it back even further, down to 60 or 70 (my monitor only does 60, after all).
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I’m sending my card off for warranty claim tomorrow and will most likely get a 1080 to get me by. Can’t even have an excuse to upgrade to a 4070TI purely because of my case fml
genuinely what a averageday, I hope no one else gets trolled by their gpu
it doesnt matter what brand the gpu is, heat is nvr good for electronics. btw your arguments reminds me of politicians trying to win vote for their elections rather than genuine and knowlageble argument.
That is one of the cards that have a potential of a problem.
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/d4/t/diablo-4-server-slam-cooked-my-gpu/21857/17
I actually am recommending this. Diablo IV is not like say Overwatch where you need the higher refresh rate to improve your response time. This game is slow paced enough where you can run it at say 60FPS and it will be just fine. AND it won’t strain the GPU so hard it has to fail safe and crash you out of the game.
Though, I will say, Blizzard needs to fix the game so that it doesn’t REACH that point. There has be some balance and checking needed to prevent an overrun of someone’s hardware to these extremes, even if the hardware should protect itself.
Anyway.
That post linked above explains the issue better than me.
Game on.
After launching Diablo 4 and playing for a while, the screen became unviewable. When I restarted the PC, it could no longer recognize the GPU. After I disconnected the power to the graphics card and ran the PC with the onboard graphics, it worked, so there’s a high chance that the GPU is broken. It seems that my GPU has become like a fan. The CPU is 7950x3D and the GPU is RTX 4090
The cinematics seem to be the most demanding thing in D4. The reports of GPUs being bricked were usually associated with cinematics too which is why Blizzard put the 30 FPS cap in.
Even systems that are capable of running the game smoothly averaging 100+ FPS at 4k seem to perform a lot worse during certain cinematics. Blizzard should just allow players to cap cinematics above 30fps but at like 60fps since their PCs can still handle high refresh 4k during normal gameplay.
Was your resolution 4k?
Agreed. I remember seeing the reports about a lot of the original issues resulting around when the cinematics were up.
So far, mine hasn’t been affected too badly, but then, most of the problems affected the more powerful cards, which is the weird part.
im running a tuf gaming 4070 ti as well. this is the first time ive been able to get this card to 70 degrees while gaming
its odd though, as i cap my framerate to 120fps and im running in 1440p, and its really only using around 60-70% of the gpu. my cpu is barely even breaking a sweat, and neither are drawing alot of power either. my 4070ti is actually better on power efficiency than my overclocked 2080.
but it was a really hot day out and it taken me a while to cool the room down with the air conditioner after i got home. might have briefly peaked out at 70 for a quick second then.
stock clocks, default fan curve and this card is a stud. i gotta say though, this game chews up vram like its nobodies business. i’m pretty much topped out at 1440p max settings. none of that dlss 3 or frame generation stuff either. i dont need that as im only gaming on a 120hz panel and i can easilly hit my 120 fps target on this game without all of that stuff.
i have to imagine that this game just reserves the whole god damn lot of vram and theres probably just useless junk being allocated into the memory. i mean even when i’m topped out i’m still getting the same performance. it gets the odd bit janky in towns but thats probably just my internet connection or the servers causing it.
but yeah ive played for a good 12 hours or so with no hiccups. fans are as silent as theyve ever been. it was just a bit odd seeing my max gpu temp peak out at 70. usually it stays around the mid 60s.
no performance qualms here. supposedly 3080/3080ti owners were having their cards brick in the beta when they were watching the same cutscene and didn’t have vsync on or their framerates capped. i have no idea what was going on there, but there was a whole lot of hubbub about that back when the first open beta came around.
I really hate to tell you this, but you hit the losing pull of the GPU lottery. There were some batches of both 3080 and 3080 Ti cards, mostly from Gigabyte, that had poor and/or uneven solder work on the BGA leads. D4 may have been the catalyst, but it wasn’t the root cause of your GPU being bricked. It was going to fail one way or the other from high load. Your best bet is to RMA the GPU as it is still under warranty and get a replacement ASAP.
I will reiterate again that software doesn’t destroy hardware in this manner. GPUs are designed to run at high and even max loads for extended periods of time, provided they get adequate cooling. Hardware failures of this type are due to manufacturing defects and are neither the fault of the software nor the user. It’s literally, as I noted above, getting the worst possible result from the GPU lottery.
I just scrolled down to see if you replied further and this unfortunately confirms my suspicion. You need to RMA the card.
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I have had around 20 BSOD crashes on my very similar rig.
Gigabyte RTX 3080 TI
Intel i9 11909k
32 GB Aorus Ram
Tried every fix under the sun and have settled on locking the game to 60 fps to ensure stability. Don’t have any temperature or frame issues at all on ultra 144 fps, but it still crashes regardless. Sometimes in the login screen, sometimes in game or in character select. Managed to play for a few hours now without any issues, fingers crossed it doesn’t crash again 
My GPU only gets to 43-60 degrees before the BSOD occurs, so I don’t believe it to be temp related. The CPU and Ram is also at good temps!
The BSOD also doesn’t occur in any other games. Can play Cyberpunk on psycho settings, Dark tide on ultra with ray tracing and Warhammer 3 total war on ultra for like 10 hours etc no issue. All at 90-98% usage in those games and run at 70-83 degrees under load for hours without fault. Diablo 4 may not be entirely at fault, but it’s definitely causing this issue somehow, as I can’t recreate it with any other game in my library. Locking the game at 144 fps didn’t fix it, so 60 fps lock and 30 lock in cut scenes may be how I have to play the game unless blizzard issue a fix 
1440p
I was running the game on standard settings, was really smooth but yeh all of a sudden black screen and it happened
Good to know they fixed this during the betas 
I’ve had to refund the game, my gigabyte 3080 ti was fried during the first open beta, after a month waiting for a RMA I got a replacement back in time for the server slam… same issue.
I tried capping frames to 60 fps, didn’t help.
Only thing I could do was turn every setting down to low, and still the game had frame drops.
Probably for the best anyway, a £60 base game with £20+ battle pass and cash shop? What an absolute rip off.
techspot wrote something about the rtx 3080-3090 model line up 3 years ago “The issue appears related to the type of capacitors found on the rear of the PCB underneath the GPU”
I have 3080ti ASUS and worried about this sheet going to happen.
Is 3080ti ASUS safe from this?
There are also some that stated the fan curve set by the Gigabyte card BIOS may have issues, and recommended setting a custom curve by software instead. I linked the thread above, but will add it here:
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/d4/t/diablo-4-server-slam-cooked-my-gpu/21857/17
As far as I know…
But just set some limits for your FPS (cap it) that will help a ton.
I did this for my 3070 Ti, but its an MSI model.
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asus tends to use japan made quality capacitors on their boards afaik, but the crashes can happens to any brands i beleive, it depends how they builds on their pcb. mf tends to have build capacitors close to heat source like gpu cores for some reason.