My girlfriend and I were running a sloop the other night, working on a merchant voyage fetching chickens and pigs. Since we started at Dagger Tooth Outpost, Shipwreck Bay was the natural choice to acquire the desired animals. After trapping the single chicken and six pigs to be delivered to Galleon's Grave Outpost, I proceeded to climb the fallen mast of the beached Blackwyche up to the peak of the island to scout the horizon. No ships were seen whilst I scanned over all directions, so there was nothing left to do but head back down. As usual, I elected to dive into the water near our ship to make the fastest decent. I wound up and lunged cutlass first into the ocean below...
Ś̸͔̰̮̈́P̵̦͓̈͆L̶̛̞̄Ä̵͓́͑̕S̷̡̞̀̉Ĥ̴̥̠͖́̐!!! Oh no, I couldn't see - my screen awash with a single hue of the deep green sea. "This crash seems different," I thought while I restarted my PC. POST was fine, Windows starting loading with its orbiting circles, so far so good... but then blackness. A bit of testing confirmed my worst fears, my GPU was dead - only basic display drivers would operate it successfully, but that meant no hardware acceleration, no gaming. Thankfully, I was able to reclaim a card from a prior generation out of a secondary PC, so I can still sail on the, albeit less beautiful, Sea of Thieves.
