Diablo 4 beta is accused of taking out the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

This is a case reminiscent of the GeForce RTX 3090 with New World: fifteen Diablo IV players accuse the Blizzard beta of having “killed” their GeForce RTX 3080 Ti. The attribution however seems difficult to prove.

Diablo IV’s first open beta took place this past weekend (it was only available to those who pre-ordered the game; the real open beta starts tomorrow). Many GeForce RTX 3080 Ti owners are accusing a hack ‘n’ slash in the studio of “bricking” their graphics card. A case reminiscent of that of the GeForce RTX 3090 that New World, Amazon’s MMORPG, killed. With two notable differences: the studio developer’s skills are less obvious, and the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti wasn’t as young as the GeForce RTX 3090s back then.

Our colleague Zhiye Liu from Tom’s Hardware US documented the reported cases. There are about fifteen. Not all users have specified their graphics card brand, but Gigabyte and Evga models will be concerned. It is difficult to judge the extent of the phenomenon at this stage. About fifteen certainly isn’t much among the mass of gamers who had to give the beta a try this past weekend; Then, surely not everyone had a GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, which is a very expensive reference, and clearly not a mainstream GPU. As an indicator, GeForce is found in barely 0.78% of Steam users according to the most recent hardware survey.

Quiet GeForce RTX 4090 at 8K in Diablo 4

only a few cases; Generalizing would be too risky

All victim GPUs breathe their last in the same way: black screen, racing fans, and then… nothingness (or GPU heaven, CPU or even RAM reincarnation, depending on how you believe). The playing time before this phenomenon occurs is very short, 15-20 minutes according to users. Note that owners of GeForce RTX 3080 and Radeon RX 6900 XT also applied.

Manufacturing defects?

We’ll be careful not to name any conclusion at this point. In the case of the GeForce RTX 3090 that was sabotaged by New World, the game menu, which had no graphical rendering specified, was first brought up as a possible culprit. Of course, the game in principle does not have the ability to permanently “crash” the graphics card, even running it at 100% capacity with a very high frame rate (after all, this is what is expected from the GPU). And in the worst case, for the processor, various hardware protection mechanisms are supposed to intervene. To New World, EVGA also issued a commonsense ruling: The affected graphics cards suffered from manufacturing defects, and this case occurred less than a year after the RTX 3090 was released, so the cards in question are still under warranty.

The GeForce RTX 3080 Ti release date is summer 2021; So the warranty is still valid. So if you have a GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and plan to play Diablo IV this weekend, Blizzard may reveal a manufacturing defect that has been kept hidden until now.

sources: redditAnd BlizzardAnd Tom Hardware USA