Ixamyakxim: Well, definitely fried. Pretty ticked off right now actually and will contact support tomorrow.

Fired up a 3d game I was playing last night, just to make sure my card was okay (Kabuto) and it immediately hardlocked the computer and showed just green "blobs" and black screen. Artifacting then persisted during bootup (don't think it had previously) and eventually the monitor wouldn't even receive a signal once Windows (presumably) loaded. I'm guessing something went south badly and 2D survived a bit longer than 3D? But it's all dead now.

Pulled the GPU, running off integrated. How does something like this happen? At this point I'm furious, but also a bit curious.

How does software take a card from never overclocked, perfectly functioning to fried without ever getting by the main menu? Like I said, I've certainly run more taxing games without issue - it's not like I tried to run Battlefield at 4K on my poor little card - this game shouldn't have done this.

Bummed :(

t0nedude: Sorry to hear this, but have you considered the possibility that your gpu was on its way out when you loaded the game?

acute71: I run this game with a GTX660. I would be surprised if Kenshi ruined you graphics card.

Hopefully the performance update gets here pretty soon. Since update 0.93.14 the game runs often really slow on my system (i7 3770, gtx 660 and 16 GB ram). Still loving the game though. Learning something new every time I play.

Ixamyakxim: So I've been having MAJOR issues with this game and I've never dealt with this kind of stuff before. I'm actually worried it might cause physical damage to my GPU - please assuage my fears and help me get this up and running!

First, I'm running an i5, GTX 460 and Win 7 64 bit - I seem to be fine with system speccs. My default resolution is 1920 X 1080.

When I first started the game, I could get to the main menu screen but then I'd crash. Load again, crash. Load again, main menu, artifacting, crash. Load again and start getting display driver kernal failure and recovery warnings from Windows. I tried running the game (always full screen) from the "launcher" menu with Vsync on and off, and in a lower resolution (1280 X 1024). Eventually the artifacting actually persisted TO MY DESKTOP. It caused general display failure and a reboot or two. I started to worry my GPU was fried, but booting into Linux showed I was okay on that front (I assume).

I spent the last hour or so wiping and reinstalling Nvidia drivers. My Windows boot seems okay (no more artifacting or reboots in the OS). I saw a "fix" for kernal failure that suggested changing game specific Nvidia Control Panel settings to "Maximum Power" under power management and disabling Vsync from the same menu. This didn't work, last attempt to load the game caused a hard lock of my computer.

I HAVE NOT yet checked to see if I have updated drivers - but these were the most recent as of roughly 2 months ago - 364.72 if that matters to anyone.

My question is - am I risking major physical damage to my GPU by attempting to get this up and running? I don't mind troubleshooting, but I REALLY don't want to fry my GPU or something worse - is it possible for a game to even do this? When the artifacting persisted into my desktop and started causing system locks / reboots I got really worried. Any clue what's going on?

Like I said, I've NEVER encountered anything like this in a game before. I've had 0 issues with this GPU and I'm pretty sure I've run far more taxing games than this one.

What's going on, can anyone help and could I have potentially already damaged my computer?

wigglywag: I have a 3090 and I get the same kind of problem. I can tell you it's the game.