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Wolcen bricked my GTX 770 in intro cinematic ...

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I'd like to think it's pure coincidence, but halfway through intro cinematic my system shut down. Turn it back on, GPU is at max fan speed, nothing on screen. Removed and re-inserted, nothing. I have had the card for ~3 years but still. Using a backup card before I figure out what to do. I was trying to run it on mid settings 1920x1080, with a 4770k, 8gb ram.

Is it even worth trying to play it with a card like that? Did some digging and other people are having overheating issues as well with more powerful cards - I just didn't think it would BREAK it. Thoughts?
 
As long as you get a good cooler on your next card I wouldn't worry. My space heater R9 290 runs cooler than my old GTX 1070 because of its giant cooler.
 
I mean that is like a 7 years old card now, so even if you had it for 3 years, did you buy it new or? I feel like it's probably been used for 5+ years, at which point its not strange for gpu's to fail. usually its the circuit board that blows somewhere.
 
There was an Nvidia driver issue a while back that (for whatever reason) allowed the cards to go over their power limits in high fps situations (such as game intros). Most cards that were effected didn't die, but some did. This sounds like that bug but it's doubtful. Could have just been coincidence. Did you notice the card fans going full blast during the cinematic?
 
It can happen. Or something on the card just finally gave up after being used for so long. Never know with GPUs, some last forever and others fail prematurely.

Did you ever take the card out and clean it?
 
I'm not familiar with that particular game, but it is possible for games, that don't have an internal frame-limiter, and don't have a frame-limited set in the drivers for that game, for a game menu to reach something like 1000-2000 FPS, and overload the VRMs on the card.

(You mentioned other players experiencing heating of their cards with that game, perhaps this is therefore true.)

What others have said is true too, after maybe 5-8 years, sometimes cards just... die on you.
 
VirtualLarry said:
I'm not familiar with that particular game, but it is possible for games, that don't have an internal frame-limiter, and don't have a frame-limited set in the drivers for that game, for a game menu to reach something like 1000-2000 FPS, and overload the VRMs on the card.
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I haven't looked deeply into the frame limtiing, but when I setup the game, I did notice that the frame limit combo box was grayed out whle in fullscreen mode. I found it odd since I wanted to set it to about 140-ish FPS (so G-Sync would stay locked on).
 
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