• Having odd shutdown issues in some games, but not in others.
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For some odd reason, starting around August, I've been having some odd issues with my machine. Some games will run just fine, others make it shut down as if the AC power was cut. At the time I just thought "Windows maybe?", and reinstalled that. That shifted the problem to games I didn't play, so I just shrugged and kept going. Recently, though, I've gotten an urge to play New Vegas, and it's one of the problem games. First thing I did was to pop task manager up and watch the ram usage. With nothing but Steam and NV open ram usage never topped 50%. Game still crashed my computer. So I tried it again with Speccy running and showing temps. Nothing went over 50ºC, with the hottest reading being 47º on my GPU. Still conked out ten minutes into the game. On that reboot I told Windows to run a memory scan via the option it gives when starting up after a sudden shutdown. That said all is above board. What boggles my mind is that there seems to be nothing connecting the games that do crash it with the ones that don't. NV barely loads my machine up at all, it crashes in 10 minutes flat. Kerbal Space Program kicks my rig squarely in the balls, yet that will run for hours on end and not crash anything. Torchlight II runs just fine. Garry's Mod can't make its mind up, sometimes it crashes sometimes it doesn't. Gonna try WoW later today as well. So does anyone have any idea what's going on? I'm at my wit's end here, I've been poking it every way I can think of and nothing comes up out of spec. Oh, and speaking of spec, [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/HPSiA.png[/IMG] [editline]6th January 2013[/editline] ...oh, and buying a new rig isn't an option. I'd love to do that regardless of this issue, this trusty old thing is well past its prime after all, but I can't afford it. If it's a hardware issue I likely won't be able to do much, but at least I'll know why my rig crashes at random.
WoW worked fine right up until I tried to alt-tab to update a similar thread on another forum. That crash knocked Boot to the Head out of action for nearly an hour. Ballsacks.
Maybe your PSU is faulty
It might be. I should be getting a new one here soon, so if it is the problem is dealt with. Somehow I doubt it's the entire problem, though.
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