Return to WoW a month with the sole purpose of completing Legion content, and I was surprised when the recommended graphics setting for me was 7 rather than 10. Im running a gtx 1060.
I decided to push it to 10, and I had 100 fps which would drop to around 60 in busy areas. So, I assumed all was good. However, I did notice it was causing my fans to become a lot louder, and occasionally I had wierd lag.
Yesterday, my computer suddenly went black, and based on the beeps it’s giving me, the GPU is faulty. I’ve ordered a new one to replace it, but I wanna verify:
Is it possible to kill your GPU by placing the settings in WoW too high?
I’m assuming you’re playing on a laptop? Do you have a fan underneath/near it to assist the built in fans?
I know my pc runs pretty hot, but I have it set on a fairly expensive fan which constantly blows cool air up into it.
I don’t mean to sound facetious, but generally when your fan is blowing hard and your pc is hot … bad things are inevitably going to happen sooner, rather than later, on the inside.
A 1060 isnt that great. I have a 1060/i7 8750H in my laptop and run on 1. I have a 1070 ti, 8700k, and 32gb of low latency ram in my desktop and run at like 5.
running at 10 would definitely cause some heat. I wouldn’t want that in my laptop. I’ve killed one before having it on my bed without adequate ventilation.
never fully understood the reasoning behind playing on “ultra” with their engine so old in game not even close to other games with really high graphics.
I hope your GPU is safe OP, just not worth it in my opinion.
Although the machine is a bit old and I’ve been keeping it alive recently by replacing parts including the motherboard, gpu, added memory, and hard drive.
But I,ve never replaced the cooling system and when I opened the case the PC fan filter was full of dust.
It’s also an Aurora a4, and when it has issues, it actually has a beep system that tells you the issue is. Like one beep means something different than two beeps.
I got six beeps which is supposed to be a bad GPU, but need to wait for the replacement to arrive to verify. I keep wondering if it’s cause I pushed it too far - with WoW of all things.
all warcraft can do is run your gpu (and cpu) at 100%.
running your gpu and cpu at 100% shouldn’t be able to kill them. but a poorly designed gpu or poor case ventilation can make it get too hot. it should slow down to protect itself if it is overheating, but stuff happens.
also, how old is it? parts do fail. if reseating your video card desn’t work, try another video card. if that doesn’t work, try a new motherboard. if that doesn’t work, try a new power supply.
this helps if you have spare stuff around. if you don’t, well, find a friend who does or take it to a shop with a good reputation.
Yeah, I know I’m gonna have to probably try that, but I got the new GPU arriving tomorrow, and can play WoW on a laptop for the time being. Playing with a crappy video card where the recommended settings is 3 is making me wish I could just go back to 7 rather than having everything appear so jagged . . . yikes.
It that then fails, then I’ll probably go buy a new case and new expensive GPU to begin working on a new gaming PC with the still working parts.
Pretty much this. I mean, a faulty GPU is certainly possible, it happens. But if it happens again at 10, the PC itself has issues elsewhere causing a knock-down effect.
The GPU is somewhere between 2-3 years, the motherboard about 3, but the fan and stuff is from the original PC which is around six years old.
The steps you suggest sound good; I have doubts it’s the motherboard because it was replaced about three years ago, and I replaced the hard drive earlier this year.
My current suspicion is that the cooling system wasn’t properly handling the heat created by the GPU when I set the graphics setting in WoW at 10.
I have a 4K monitor, that’s why I wanted to make it 10.
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If you’re on a laptop without a cooling tray, 10 is way too high.
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Make sure ya get all the dust bunnies out of that cooling system. With the side panel off, make sure ya fans and stuff are all spinning and not falsely reportin. Depending on just how old this system is, redoin the thermal paste on the CPU may not be a bad idea either.
with excessive heat, the gpu soldier can become cracked since it’s lead-free. If your system is full of dust and the gpu is overtaxed, then it could kill the card, yeah
Anything with a 60 in the series number is a budget card. So, yeah you probably killed it by turning wow up too high and playing for long periods. Though, that’s only after the card’s own heat protection measures failed. So it was at least partly a faulty card in the first place if you only had one failure that killed it.