Skyrim broke my graphic card?

[trollberserker]

Lately my Graphic Card broke when I was playing Skyrim.

 

I played on same graphic card and exact the same settings and modlist as before and it worked fine. I dind't change any display setting or anything in the ini. files untill the last time when game ran without problems. I loaded a CLEAN save (from here - https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/33498), the game worked smoothly then randomly crashed after about 10 minutes. I tried disabling some more mods several times but it kept crashing, first only normal CTD, then with a screen tearing on crash and screen turning off. I kept troubleshooting the issue untill my Graphic Card (Gigabyte GeForce GTX 760 2 GB) broke for good with Error 43 and screen artifacts.

 

 

I know it theoreticaly shouldn't happen, but it did. Except removing all my old saves and starting anew on a clean save didn't change anything to my game before it started crashing randomly and showing me screen artifacts.

 

 

I tried running Skyrim after installing a new graphic card (Gigabyte GeForce GTX 770 2 GB) but I ran into exact the same issue. After second crash I get rid of the game completely.

 

I can't provide any mod list anymore because I've uninstalled my Skyrim completely now. I tried not to use any performance-heavy mods. Out of larger mods -I had Wheels of Lull quest mod loaded. I was using this ENB - https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/42323

Edited September 28, 2021 by trollberserker

[showler]

Skyrim can't break your graphics card but it can stress it enough to reveal problems with it. Such as overheating from poor cooling system or failure due to insufficient power from your power supply. Or possibly driver issues.

[wfandrews]

With your rig I would certainly not use any ENBs except ENBoost.

 

My advice would be to take a look at system requirements for Skyrim. With only 2gb vram you must be very careful with your resolution and mod load or you will over stress your system.