a got new powerful game a week ago - "Gun" and i've played it for about 12 hours total. then my pc crashed. first i thought that it was a virus, but then i removed my video card ( nvidia fx5200) and pc started to work ok. ( i have a video card build in mother board) is it possible for a game to destroy a video card?|||Hardwares do fail, whether due to overheating, or internal hardware failure. But it is safe to play games, generally speaking, no matter how demanding is the gaming application, without it having to screw up your video card; I've played games where my CPU was hovering at 10 fps or lower(card wasn't powerful enough for Oblivion) while CPU usage is clocked at 50%+. I've have also run the Playstation 2 emulator, which is very demanding on system specs, without having the video card died on me.
By the way, is the game called Gunz, where you play online and shoot it up? That one is hardly demanding on computer specs.
Right now you should be focusing on determining the status of your warranty. If it is valid send it back and explain the situation. The application's demands on the video card or the total amount of time you spent on the game will be irrelevant, video card are not suppose to die on you during the coverage time regardless of the application you put it through; I would explain to the customer rep as it is. Long as you don't use a hammer on the video card, they are obligated to replace it, provided your video card is still covered.|||Yes if the GPU runs hot enough it will melt but it is very rare probably a faulty card that you just hadnt taxed enough to cause a fault
Tridon|||the game itself....no. but your card can overheat do to something hardware related like the fan/heatsink not cooling the card properly...normally happens if someone overclocks their card. it also happens to CPUs as i had it happen to me with my athlon xp cpu.
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