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You make several fair points — in general, software alone shouldn’t be able to cause permanent hardware damage to a healthy system. Modern PCs have multiple layers of protection (thermal throttling, power limits, firmware safeguards) that should prevent a game or anti-cheat from “frying” components under normal circumstances.
That said, it’s a bit of an oversimplification to say it’s always user error if something goes wrong. Software can absolutely trigger edge cases that expose weaknesses in drivers, firmware, or poorly implemented safeguards — especially when dealing with kernel-level anti-cheats or programs that run with elevated privileges. These systems interact deeply with the OS and can, in rare cases, cause instability, firmware corruption, or unsafe hardware states (e.g., disabled fans, overvolted GPUs) if something goes wrong.
So yes, Helldivers 2 (or its anti-cheat) shouldn’t be capable of damaging hardware by design — but dismissing all reports as “user fault” ignores the complexity of how software, drivers, and firmware interact. It’s possible for a game or its anti-cheat to indirectly cause issues even if the hardware was “properly built.”
