D4 + Nvidia bricked my 3080 in Dell Alienware R12

Updated TLDR: high-res texture installed and ultra graphics setting at 3840x2160 makes my 3080 shutdown. Happens only when playing D4. It seems uninstalling high-res texture pack, limiting GPU core clock under 1700 MHz using MSI afterburner, making GPU fan running at higher rpm, and D4 graphics setting at high work for me so far.

My PC is Alienware R12 with RTX 3080. So I don’t know if my 3080 is asus or gigabyte brand or something else. This one I bought about two years ago and I’ve been playing games like cyberpunk, god of war, etc just fine so far. I was playing D4 and suddenly my display went black. I saw artifacts (small red blocks) all over my display for 2~3 seconds before display went dark. PC was still on and fan was running. Holding power button didn’t do anything. Only way to get the PC back is to force power down by disconnecting power cord and wait for some time and power back up. This happens ONLY when I play D4.

I don’t remember all the D4 graphics settings but I do remember High-res texture installed, foreground fps was cap at 120, HDR on, DLSS balanced and at 3840x2160. I didn’t touch anything else.

The 3000 series from NIVIDA seems to be cheaply and poorly made. This game is incredibly demanding on a computers resources. Add these factors together and this is what happens.

Can software actually damage hardware? Typically the answer is no. With that being said, blizzard is not doing themselves or us any favors making this game run so freaking hard for the computer crowd.

It seems to me they made this game with the console crowd first, and we the computer crowd second. What has this done? Left us with a game that is not optimized for the computer crowd whatsoever.

I dont know how many more of these threads have to be posted before blizzard does something. Hell im getting paranoid myself. This is kinda getting ridiculous.

Blizzard, plz optimize this game for the computer crowd ASAP. Like now would be great. I dont wanna buy a new GPU playing this game. Honestly…

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