PoE 2 broke my PC?

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AintCare#6513 wrote:

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pattw555#0071 wrote:

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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 is incorrect. soft can 100% break your hardware. not saying this is what happened here, but you have very outdated information about software vs hardware interactions

Please provide details.

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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Mordgier#6997 wrote:

Please provide details.

use your search engine of choice. its not a secret

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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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Mordgier#6997 wrote:

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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.

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!

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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.