Originally posted by PhilGFriendly:

Every other game I own ran smoothly. It's documented on reddit and via my own observations that cards run hotter and don't seem to throttle properly.

Most of the posts are from people running 20 & 30 series NVidia cards and would rather blame the game than look to their own system. Of 6 Mil+ players, only about 5% of those are experiencing issues.