PoE 2 broke my PC?

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

I will bump this to know if any others have had the issue.. I am pretty bummed out, because now I can't play anything.

Sometimes PC’s break.

Although it’s not impossible, it’s very, very, VERY rare that a game/piece of code actually breaks hardware that has no issues. What can happen is a demanding piece of software pushes a faulty piece of hardware over the edge, breaking it.

Quick solution: Re-install windows. If you had a crash that corrupted your windows install, drivers, etc. this would fix it.

If that doesn’t fix it, my money would be that your PSU has crapped out, unfortunately when it comes to troubleshooting hardware problems there often isn’t an easier way than keep swapping out components until you find what was causing the issue.

I just want to re-iterate that sometimes PC hardware breaks, and while it’s easy to throw a temper tantrum at whatever piece of software you were using when the break happened, it’s almost NEVER the case that the software caused perfectly good hardware to fail.

Edit: other useful troubleshooting steps to identify the hardware problem

1) try running with only 1 ram stick, be sure to try each ram stick to see if one is faulty

2) if you have graphics on your CPU, remove the GPU and run your monitor from those. If this fixes instability the it indicates the issue could either be your GPU or your PSU.

3) no great way to see if it’s a CPU/Mobo issue other than swapping those, and at that point you’re basically building a new PC.

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pattw555#0071 wrote:

Sometimes PC’s break.

Although it’s not impossible, it’s very, very, VERY rare that a game/piece of code actually breaks hardware that has no issues. What can happen is a demanding piece of software pushes a faulty piece of hardware over the edge, breaking it.

Quick solution: Re-install windows. If you had a crash that corrupted your windows install, drivers, etc. this would fix it.

If that doesn’t fix it, my money would be that your PSU has crapped out, unfortunately when it comes to troubleshooting hardware problems there often isn’t an easier way than keep swapping out components until you find what was causing the issue.

I just want to re-iterate that sometimes PC hardware breaks, and while it’s easy to throw a temper tantrum at whatever piece of software you were using when the break happened, it’s almost NEVER the case that the software caused perfectly good hardware to fail.

This, and I will never understand why people in this day and age still try to blame the games. We should all know this by now.

It may have cooked your GPU

Others have complained that the GPU can get really hot.

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thenamesnobody#4608 wrote:

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pattw555#0071 wrote:

Sometimes PC’s break.

Although it’s not impossible, it’s very, very, VERY rare that a game/piece of code actually breaks hardware that has no issues. What can happen is a demanding piece of software pushes a faulty piece of hardware over the edge, breaking it.

Quick solution: Re-install windows. If you had a crash that corrupted your windows install, drivers, etc. this would fix it.

If that doesn’t fix it, my money would be that your PSU has crapped out, unfortunately when it comes to troubleshooting hardware problems there often isn’t an easier way than keep swapping out components until you find what was causing the issue.

I just want to re-iterate that sometimes PC hardware breaks, and while it’s easy to throw a temper tantrum at whatever piece of software you were using when the break happened, it’s almost NEVER the case that the software caused perfectly good hardware to fail.

This, and I will never understand why people in this day and age still try to blame the games. We should all know this by now.

Honestly I think it’s just frustration/the early stages of grief we see when people come to a forum to post lol. Most of the time after they move from bargaining to acceptance they’ll start thinking rationally again and focus on solving their problem rather than trying to blame a game for their PC breaking.

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melkoriii#5637 wrote:

It may have cooked your GPU

Others have complained that the GPU can get really hot.

GPU’s have thermal limits. When they hit them they throttle back or shut down. In 99.99% of cases a piece of software can’t force a GPU with no underlying issues to cook itself. This is just a bad understanding of how computers work.

This thread is a fundamental lack of understanding through and through. PoE2 didn't break your PC and couldn't break your PC. The game can't make your hardware run out of spec. It doesn't do anything magical or out of the ordinary other than it will use CPU cycles if they are available.

I think the issues people are running into are due to usually playing games that don't push their machines and so they think they are setup well thermally. Then they play a game like this that will use the hardware provided and run into thermal issues because as it turns out, their machine at full load doesn't have the cooling capacity needed for sustained gaming at max load.

did you check your bios settings? load defaults and enable XMP for the ram.


btw, pretty sure this was not poe2s fault

I don't blame the game and there is a question mark. I've played stalker 2 on high, played CS while streaming, wu-kong.. no other game has done it.

This is a genuine question and why I am bothered is only because most of the other games I play are also demanding. Now I can't play anything and it all happened AFTER i played PoE2, which I still very much like and I won't say anything bad..

The game makes the CPU run 100%+ on alot of people including me. And I am almost sure that this alone caused the issue. I am not denying that the CPU/PSU/GPU or whatever might be defected. I don't know much about PCs in this area. All I know is that there are other more demanding games that have no issues

my game was running on low and FPS cap was 120. How on earth can that be demanding with my pc?

thermals didn't go above 80C btw. That was all under control. And to clarify the issue doesn't seem to be in GPU, I tried CS for 10 mins before it shut down my PC and the FPS was as good as before, power draw was fine, temps were 70C..

The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly.

This is what Event Viewer said. Might be the PSU