PoE 2 broke my PC?

It could be anything. Computers have so many different parts, sometimes a part may have already been malfunctioning but did not give out any signs. All it needed was a little push, activities like rare encounters and extra content in POE2 can really push your pc to the limits. My pc sounds like an airplane when i encounter rares.

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AintCare#6513 wrote:

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Mordgier#6997 wrote:

Please provide details.

use your search engine of choice. its not a secret

So you have no idea what you're talking about just spreading misinformation.

Fundamental understanding of computer architecture would show you to be wrong.

At minimum you have to start to actually interact with hardware beyond the instruction set layer which no game does.

Every single consumer system operates with a hardware abstraction layer and it is not possible for the software to directly issue instructions to the hardware.

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pattw555#0071 wrote:

Although it’s not impossible, it’s very, very, VERY rare that a game/piece of code actually breaks hardware that has no issues.

Is there even such case?

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AintCare#6513 wrote:

use your search engine of choice. its not a secret

Can you provide one example, what code can break your hardware?
One.

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EightInchFloppyDisk#2190 wrote:

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AintCare#6513 wrote:

use your search engine of choice. its not a secret

Can you provide one example, what code can break your hardware?
One.

It's been confirmed from a thousands different sources that New World amazon's mmo fried rtx video cards.
We ain't living in a sci-fi fantasy world, pc isn't an impregnable fortress, faulty software like path of exile 2 can obviously cause some hardware issues considering its a poorly optimized game.

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EightInchFloppyDisk#2190 wrote:

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pattw555#0071 wrote:

Although it’s not impossible, it’s very, very, VERY rare that a game/piece of code actually breaks hardware that has no issues.

Is there even such case?

Stuxnet is a prime example of software created to destroy hardware.

Obviously it's a pretty exotic case as it sabotaged software that controlled specific hardware.


There have always been cases of firmware and drivers causing hardware faults. Prime examples being Samsung firmware killing SSDs and the ongoing issues with Intel 13th and 14th gen firmware.

Of course these cases are also unique as we are talking about code that actually runs ON the hardware itself rather at the user mode level.

As far as I'm aware, there is no case where hardware was damaged by software operating at user level.

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Alivkos#3986 wrote:

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EightInchFloppyDisk#2190 wrote:

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AintCare#6513 wrote:

use your search engine of choice. its not a secret

Can you provide one example, what code can break your hardware?
One.

It's been confirmed from a thousands different sources that New World amazon's mmo fried rtx video cards.
We ain't living in a sci-fi fantasy world, pc isn't an impregnable fortress, faulty software like path of exile 2 can obviously cause some hardware issues considering its a poorly optimized game.

It didn't though.....the cards had physical soldering issues.

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melkoriii#5637 wrote:

It may have cooked your GPU

Others have complained that the GPU can get really hot.

Nonsense. Absolutely nonsense.

It is extraordinary to have a person even consider this in this technological era.

And to write it down?

Have you never ran benchmark software on your machine?

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Fpvl#5617 wrote:

After a day of playing PoE 2, which I really enjoyed even though I had my PC reboot countless times to the point where it didn't even boot anymore. I now can't even play any other games, because after about 10 minutes my PC shuts down and does NOT boot back up. The whole system is now unstable and even discord is enough to send my PC into a rebooot (or just straight up shuts it down). It starts for a second and then the power is lost and my startup screen is all flickering. I did not have any issues prior to that

r9 5950x
RTX 3080

Nothing overclocked, thermals were good.. not sure why this is happening.


Edit: It all started when I got to Act 2

Here is what you do:

1. Get Furmark (or similar software)

2. Run it on your computer.

3. Observe for any problems.

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AintCare#6513 wrote:

having a hard time operating search engines?

1st result:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9286425/is-it-possible-to-permanently-damage-the-hardware-by-software

no wonder you struggle with understanding computers. its never to late to learn!

Read your own source buddy.

They're busy trying to say "yes" and talking about firmware and goofy things like:

CPU - make your CPU usage 100% (or better yet - read the temperature and the max temp CPU withstands, then try to balance just under that), this will definitively shorten the life span of it
USB drives - you can write on the USB drive a few hundred million times, which will make it unusable (see this: http://www.bress.net/blog/archives/114-How-Long-Does-a-Flash-Drive-Last.html)
HDD drives - seek, write and read like crazy, if possible by reading the drive geometry and issuing the worst possible commands (i.e. seek to the position which the furthest possible from the current one), that will certainly make it very hot soon and shorten its lifespan
Monitors - put it to sleep and out of sleep and change resolutions a few hundred thousand times
GPUs - run 10 instances of Battle Field 3 and then boil eggs
USB devices - turn power on and off (e.g. to your external USB HDD) in 2s intervals
Speakers - volume to 100% and then enjoy some of this, this or this (or your favorite) for a couple of weeks :)