Could a game have killed my video card?

[ahenkel]

I don't think this is possible but I'm curious if Darksiders killed my card.

bought a Sapphire 5870(the one that's been dirt cheap on newegg) on 1/7/11
its worked flawlessly in BC2 and FONV on maxed settings. No issues even on marathon gaming sessions.

Picked up Darksiders 4 days ago installed it and played it to the first boss. The video crashed and I get the your video card driver has stopped responding error and the game recovers. Couple minutes later same thing. I switch games to BC2 and there's no problems at all.

Yesterday I get into Darksiders and continue from last checkpoint. After about 10minutes the video card crashes and when it recovers the screen has artifacts. I exit out immediately in windows everything is kosher. I don't worry about it. Later that evening I get into BC2 and I get artifacts even after a restart and removing and reinstalling drivers.

I did set up an RMA with Newegg. I'm probably wrong on this and its just a case of a bad card. It happens sometimes and I'm pretty sure they sold a lot so the odds go up. I'm just hesitant to play Darksiders again.

 

[thilanliyan]

Probably just a bad card.

 

[Powermoloch]

bad card.

list system specs >_> <_<

 

[blanketyblank]

Not impossible though. SC2 had a bug that really pushed the gpu in the menu screens so a lot of cards got screwed up. Newer cards should throttle or something though so it's less likely.

 

[zerocool84]

If you didn't overclock it, it's probably a bad card. It happens. I've had one bad card out of all the ones I've bought over the years.

 

[ahenkel]

Not impossible though. SC2 had a bug that really pushed the gpu in the menu screens so a lot of cards got screwed up. Newer cards should throttle or something though so it's less likely.

I read about the SC2 problem whats odd it where the card would crash in Darksiders only at the first boss. I'm gonna chalk it up to a bad card send it off and get it replaced. Luckily I still have my 5770 so there's no downtime.

 

[Voo]

Not impossible though. SC2 had a bug that really pushed the gpu in the menu screens so a lot of cards got screwed up.

While the menu was pretty stressful, the majority of cards didn't have problems with it. It just showed which cards were already problematic for whatever reason (dusty coolers and whatnot).

Bad card.