Diablo 4 general - All shit will hit the fan this June

[Fascist Frederick]

To be fair a game can't really do anything other than utilize 100% of your GPU, which it should be able to handle... if 3080's can't handle 100% utilization it speaks to the quality of the card rather than the quality of the game.

This is likely an uncapped FPS issue, where the card is churning out 1000's of frames per second on a menu/cutscene where there is little to render. Which still shouldn't brick a card. 100% is 100%, it doesn't matter if it's rendering 10000000 polygons at 60 fps or 200 polygons at 100000 fps. These cards were going to brick as soon as they were taxed regardless of what was running when it happened.

 

[Fuck Taxes]

Blizzard could release a game that is literally just a gif of a German man getting his mouth shit in and gamers would still buy it JFC.

 

[Passacaille]

Blizzard could release a game that is literally just a gif of a German man getting his mouth shit in and gamers would still buy it JFC.

And even then the plot would be yet another lame story of betrayal (with sprinklings of temptation or revenge), à la Arthas, Illidan, Hellscream, Mengsk, Kerrigan, Adria, etc.

 

[Faceless Whore]

So diablo iv is bricking 3080tis.

While playing Diablo for about 20 minutes, during a cutscene in the chapel, my monitors turned off. Had to restart my PC and motherboard is now posting error code 97. Nothing is working. My GPU is dead.

He says his motherboard is also bricked. How does this even happen? Too much power draw?

Also lol:

Lot's of toxic, unhappy and unhelpful people on Reddit...it's really sad.

 

[Esmeraude]

I’ve been pressured by several friends to play this but if it’s going to brick my system forget it I hope it won’t do the same on console.

 

[Fascist Frederick]

He says his motherboard is also bricked. How does this even happen? Too much power draw?

Also lol:

It looks like error code 97 means dead GPU. His motherboard is fine. I'm guessing all these people bought used 3080's that have spent 2 years running 24/7 at 100% mining bitcoin and have pretty much already given all they have to give.

 

[AgendaPoster]

Games won't brick your GPUs, people.
Videocards can die though, like every piece of tech, and yes, spikes in power draw could blow some lower quality VRMs, or an improperly cooled chip.
Also, I am happy to report that even with hundreds of Euros inside my Blizz account (from selling all my WoW shit when I quit), I managed to not buy D4. I did take a look on Twitch, looks just like D3 with PoE-like skills, but we're still on the spammy ARPG mechanics which are usually boring to me.
Might buy it if it has raiding. Immortal had some, which was badly gated and cheap, so maybe D4 can do better. No raiding for (MMO)RPG, action or not, is a deal breaker for me. There's no way I would spend hours farming the same mobs. Gotta have wipes and bosses, and noobs to blame for wipes.

 

[shekelshoah666]

I think New World was another game that 3080's had the same issue with and I believe there were more games doing the uncapped FPS shit. Specifically the Gigabyte ones and looking at the complaints with D4 its mostly if not all Gigabyte cards. I personally had a mem leak but noticed it right away and switched textures to medium and it went away. It seems like the Gigabyte cards just can't properly handle 100% utilization in some cases.

Gigabyte had serious issues with the 30 series cards (which they seemed to have rushed out to meet the insane demand) and they basically changed their RMA process so it's a pain in the ass just due to sheer volume. I had to RMA a 3060ti and it was a nightmare that took like 3 months and over $100.

 

[Boss Hawg]

Games won't brick your GPUs, people.
Videocards can die though, like every piece of tech, and yes, spikes in power draw could blow some lower quality VRMs, or an improperly cooled chip.

I feel like this is a case of retards that overclock their gpus without understanding how and also improper cooling for those overclocks. Games can push those cards to the point of damaging them due to user error. I could be wrong though.

 

[Sperglord666]

To be fair a game can't really do anything other than utilize 100% of your GPU, which it should be able to handle... if 3080's can't handle 100% utilization it speaks to the quality of the card rather than the quality of the game.

This is likely an uncapped FPS issue, where the card is churning out 1000's of frames per second on a menu/cutscene where there is little to render. Which still shouldn't brick a card. 100% is 100%, it doesn't matter if it's rendering 10000000 polygons at 60 fps or 200 polygons at 100000 fps. These cards were going to brick as soon as they were taxed regardless of what was running when it happened.

Yeah, I'm finding it hard to believe that there is something specific in this game that bricks that specific card. Unless someone has a thorough explanation of how that could happen, I have to agree it's probably a quality control issue.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

so how is the story so far? from the scale 1-10, how woke is it?

 

[ddlloo]

Have there ever been any articles about the geforce 3080TIs failure rate? I can completely believe that there is a quality control issue with them, but the specificity of these brickings is intriguing, not that I can think of any other way a game is killing those cards.

 

[CYKA RUSH B]

I feel like this is a case of retards that overclock their gpus without understanding how and also improper cooling for those overclocks. Games can push those cards to the point of damaging them due to user error. I could be wrong though.

possible. if you read the rebbit thread links the dipshits don't know what a vbios is, or what the vbios switch on their card does, or that their card even has a switch - apparently some people reportin that the other bios works.. No technical proficiency. I wonder if they are also running these cards on trash or underpowered PSUs

 

[whogoesthere]

possible. if you read the rebbit thread links the dipshits don't know what a vbios is, or what the vbios switch on their card does, or that their card even has a switch - apparently some people reportin that the other bios works.. No technical proficiency. I wonder if they are also running these cards on trash or underpowered PSUs

I do enjoy seeing a very high-end card hooked up to a cheap Chinese, no brand PSU "Rated Super Gaming", Great stuff.

I think with Diablo 4 though, numerous people are going to be interested who liked the previous games, but they will hold off until the microtransaction systems are better understood. That's how I am looking at it, intrigued because I do like the dumb ARPG action d3 offers (post fucked upstart, once reaper came out). I just think Immortal was a ploy, they overstuffed it with cash shop shit, so they can say d4 learned from listening to the community, like the good guys they want to be.

My fear gamewise is it's going to be a mix of 2 and 3, all the shit from both, and none of the things that made each one good in its own way.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

so how is the story so far? from the scale 1-10, how woke is it?

Diablo's story is nonsense as of 3 anyways so what does that matter?

 

[Boss Hawg]

possible. if you read the rebbit thread links the dipshits don't know what a vbios is, or what the vbios switch on their card does, or that their card even has a switch - apparently some people reportin that the other bios works.. No technical proficiency. I wonder if they are also running these cards on trash or underpowered PSUs

I'm not really too versed in that tech stuff either but I at least monitor my usage, my heat, etc. These people seem like retards that buy thousands of dollars worth of PC parts and then have no idea how to keep up maintenance on them. I bet you some of them are having problems bc they don't update their fuckin drivers every so often.

 

[Manul Otocolobus]

Games won't brick your GPUs, people.
Videocards can die though, like every piece of tech, and yes, spikes in power draw could blow some lower quality VRMs...

I guarantee this is it. Some of the licensed NVidia cards are known for using two different types of VRM's depending on what the manufacturer could get during the chip shortage, some of them are high quality, but some of them are completely garbage. I'd bet dollars to donuts its blown VRMs. The protection for the chips themselves is fairly good, both thermal and electrical. it is set to cut out way before it would be damaged. It would take some serious effort to damage the chip itself, such as a physical modification to bypass protections.

 

[ShitLurker]

So diablo iv is bricking 3080tis.

There are tons of threads on both BNet and Reddit about this happening mainly due to one cut scene.

This shit right here proves to me that with optimization is an honest to god lost art now.

 

[Blue Miaplacidus]

I'm guessing all these people bought used 3080's that have spent 2 years running 24/7 at 100% mining bitcoin and have pretty much already given all they have to give.

It's specific to the shitty gigabyte cards. They're notoriously bad, IIRC didn't they all eat shit on that other game release a couple years ago, I forget what it's called. New World.

 

[Haramburger]

@Haramburger can you confirm?

Works On My Machine™

one of the Disgaea games once upon a time had some bug in the code where it was yellow ring bricking consoles, and it got patched. This kind of thing isn't uncommon, but it's half the hardware designer's fault for having these issues(because it only affects specific cards) and half the devs for having an issue that rapes a specific piece of hardware. People are eager to pile onto Blizzard for wrecking their PC for their current reputation but it's not all their fault.

This shit right here proves to me that with optimization is an honest to god lost art now.

Factorio was the last modern optimized game.

so how is the story so far? from the scale 1-10, how woke is it?

I'd say 7/10. The prologue is great, grounded horror. The girl in the mines is blizz-shit like escorting Leah everywhere in 3, but her mom going crazy is good. Vigo is good, except his bribe should have been coin, not a charm bracelet. His ending is metal. Inarius is metal. Visions of Lillith isn't much different from Azmodan talking to you constantly, different method but same absent shit.


It's a better tone overall, with some flawed bits. 7/10.