The world of PC gaming is abuzz with information about Diablo 4, Blizzard’s newest and most graphically-intense delve into its beloved dungeon crawler sequence. The invite-only beta is making these unnoticed envious, however you may wish to maintain off when you have particular fashions of high-end desktop GPUs from each AMD and Nvidia. A small variety of preliminary gamers are reporting that their graphics playing cards have been dying whereas taking part in the brand new recreation.

User communities throughout the net are reporting sudden GPU failures whereas taking part in Diablo 4 in periods as quick as 20 minutes, they usually go far past the standard Windows graphics crash. While the variety of affected customers appears to be comparatively small in the mean time, Tom’s Hardware has tabulated that the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is the most typical card that exhibits issues, in numerous variations from Gigabyte, EVGA, and different distributors. At least one participant every reported the identical failure for the less-powerful RTX 3080 and the Radeon RX 6900 XT. At the time of writing lower than 20 whole customers are reporting catastrophic issues.

Afflicted playing cards trigger the PC to crash, with some giving a slight warning of haywire cooling followers simply earlier than. Upon a reboot the video doesn’t return until the person switches to a different card or built-in graphics, which tends to be the purpose at which an RMA return is one of the best resolution. This state of affairs is eerily harking back to when Amazon’s New World MMO was bricking RTX 3090 cards.

The variety of customers reporting this drawback is so small that it’s in all probability unlikely to discourage gamers from attempting out Diablo 4. Even if it’s ten occasions the quantity of people that’ve been lively on the boards at this level, that may be a tiny fraction of Blizzard’s whole beta gamers. Even so, Blizzard, Nvidia, and the assorted companion producers needs to be taking notice and attempting to resolve the problem.