I've read a lot of things over the internet saying that Civ fried their GPU and stuff but that was around the time it was released which was 6 years ago i'm new to Civ and everything works fine but im only asking this to be safe. I've got a MSi GTX 970 Twin Frozr V and its one of those cards that the fans only spin up when it gets to a certain temperature and whilst playing civ the fans do start to spin up not fast but they do spin a little i also have V-Sync enabled if u need anymore info about my system etc then feel free to ask.
Can Civilization V damage my CPU?
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derekullo
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If your gpu is about to go out anything that puts pressure on it can cause it to "go over the edge" / fry.
About 15 years ago i was playing Deus Ex with an overclocked gpu and I must have been pulling too many watts over the psu causing it fry in a big cloud of white smoke. So you could say Deus Ex fried my computer but more than likely it was my insufficient power supply that was the culprit.
Having said that there is at least one application that could really crash a gpu under certain circumstances, a gpu benchmarking program like furmark, which did literally fry amd/ati cards in the past, 4xxx series i believe, which had faulty overheating protection logic.
All of the Civilization including 5 and 6 are far from the most graphically demanding game being that they are turn based.
I play Civ6 on a Geforce 780 Ti just fine.
About 15 years ago i was playing Deus Ex with an overclocked gpu and I must have been pulling too many watts over the psu causing it fry in a big cloud of white smoke. So you could say Deus Ex fried my computer but more than likely it was my insufficient power supply that was the culprit.
Having said that there is at least one application that could really crash a gpu under certain circumstances, a gpu benchmarking program like furmark, which did literally fry amd/ati cards in the past, 4xxx series i believe, which had faulty overheating protection logic.
All of the Civilization including 5 and 6 are far from the most graphically demanding game being that they are turn based.
I play Civ6 on a Geforce 780 Ti just fine.
Jeff Kaos
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I've literally put hundreds and hundreds of hours into CIV V on both an old HP Pavilion laptop and an extremely low budget FX 8800/GTX 750 ti system and never had any problems. And think about that: I was able to run it fine on a regular old general use laptop without any fancy mobile graphics card. So just about any dedicated GPU should be fine.
Civ is cpu bound ... and if you play mega world with 18 civs and 32 city states (epic mode)... it will tax the shit out of your cpu. It's easily the most taxing pc game I've played in regards to cpu... but again I play larger sCale games than others.
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