Quote Originally Posted by Tiraelina View Post
Except being optimized or not has nothing to do with heat, if anything it will run hotter because its doing more faster. Is there anyone that isn't talking from their own thought up facts? The game was and will never be doing damage unless its your own/manufacturers fault due to cooling failure, if someone neglects maintainence that long their card will burn or start shutting down when it gets that far.

This is like complaining that a video encode is using too much CPU.
Untrue, Programing take a large part of what can happen. While the hardware itself is stress tested and drivers that have safe guards, it does not stop the fact that an unruly program(s) can spike it so badly it shortens the lifespan of the hardware and potentially harm it.

When you consider that gaming PCs are not like Macs or very rigorous R&D manufactures like Sony that does massive design analysis on their products, what you are left with is a patchwork of components that may or may not work well together in the worse occasions.

If FF14 is making the worse occasions constant, it's a very very bad program. If it has code that specifically bypasses safeguards(that's basically what OCing software does)... all heck can go to.

Again it's down to bad programing if such things are happening. Like an amateur that programs a text editor to uses up all system resources until the system locks up and BSOD.

I do not want a high class warranty insure workstation to play FF14. Especially when it's not even that great. Trying to put it on the same level as video encoding situation is ludicrous, because even video encoding doesn't it as bad as FF14.