[DracoTarot]

@GoLLuM13 "BETA wait before it's too late." I would say. 😁

[Saka]

@DracoTarot @GoLLuM13 Maybe the beta app was causing the driver to use unsafe voltage, but who knows.

[DracoTarot]

@Saka I also thought it could be the voltage. They really not clear on what the cause might be.

[Saka]

@DracoTarot My educated guess was based on the 3000 series early on being bricked by drivers using unsafe voltage and maybe something caused the issue to resurface. 🤔

[DracoTarot]

@Saka I watched a youtube vid last night about the issues and the gamer who got a bricked card mentioned he and his wife were playing Diablo and at a specific cut scene his GPU fans went up to 100% and then his framerates dropped. His screen switched off and the card was bricked afterwards.

His wife played until she reached the same cutscene and her GPU also heated up and the fans were running at full capacity. They minimized the game and had a look at how many resources are in use. They noticed the game is using basically all the VRAM on her graphics card and her ram was at 93%. The card and CPU started to bottleneck. Luckily her card survived.

Blizzard released this statement after all the complaints.

Diablo 4 is unlikely to be the cause of the issue itself, more so a catalyst for exposing a weakness that may have already been present in the affected cards. This was the case with New World.EVGA noticed some poor soldering(opens in new tab) on a batch of its cards that, when running at extremely high frame rates and with spiky load—in that case, while playing New World—would result in failure.

[DoctorEldritch]

@DracoTarot I do not know enough about technical aspects to judge if there is truth in this. Does this look like a likely possible reason, or does this look more like they searching for an excuse?

[Saka]

@DracoTarot That'd make sense if the game is so inefficient that it hits an extreme load on the card, causing the solder balls to crack. Technically possible to fix such a card, but it's not something done at home.

Hm, I posted a video about extreme tuning at EVGA and they showed a repair that involved reballing.

*digs* Ah, here it is. https://dev-v1-lenovo.giantsplatform...ing-and-repair
@DoctorEldritch A game can't directly affect the hardware, as the DirectX/Vulkan APIs are higher level and only do calls to the driver layer, but it can be definitely made so inefficient that it puts unreasonable burden on the hardware. The Diablo IV beta was reported by multiple users to consume extreme amounts of RAM and VRAM.

[DracoTarot]

@DoctorEldritch I think there will be a whole back and forth about and neither Nvidia nor Blizzard will take full responsibility.

In another statement Blizzard mentioned, the Diablo 4 team has been investigating the reports of GPU issues mentioned in this thread and elsewhere online," says a customer support representativeon the Blizzard forums. "The team is working closely with Nvidia to identify affected hardware configurations and gather as many data points as possible to assist in the investigation."
While reports of GPUs not being able to handle Diablo 4 are widespread, it's only one particular model that is apparently giving up altogether. GeForce RTX 3080 Ti seems to be causing the most significant issues, bricking the GPU altogether. And almost always in the same cutscene.

While most of the issues seem to occur with the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, there are other GPU models also having issues.

Mine for example overheats and almost all my RAM is being used to run the game.

If you take a look at the system requirements to play Diablo 4 it's not that high. Even low-end cards according to Blizzard are able to run the game.

• OS: 64-bit Windows 10.
• Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K or AMD FX-8100.
• Memory: 8 GB RAM.
• Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 or AMD Radeon R9 280.
• DirectX: Version 12.
• Storage: SSD with 45 GB available space.
• Internet: Broadband Connection.

Seems a bit weird how high-end cards buckle under pressure and there are no reports of low-end cards

Is the soldering weak or are components not up to standard on the cards? Anythings possible.

[DoctorEldritch]

@Saka This whole thing reminds me of Dan Brown's "Digital Fortress" (yes, there was a time when I read some of his books). There a giant code-breaking computer got a virus that caused it to overheat and erupt from underground where the servers were located.

To be honest, I was never tempted by betas. I always wait for all the DLCs to come out before I play as it is, and betas are not even a "full game". What is the incentive for trying them, except for the reason that they are offered for free? Don't betas usually have these sorts of problems? Maybe not as big as this one in particular, but still, beta is an unfinished product.

[DoctorEldritch]

@DracoTarot Either way, it is an interesting predicament for those of us who are not personally affected by it. Maybe steer clear of the beta for now just to be safe?