Does Sniper Elite destroy my pc?

[nordstern]

hi,

i have the problem only with SE5. And the problem is not regular.

My PC is a AMD 5800X with a 6800XT and 32Gb Ram, Win10 and 850W power from be quiet.

The Game shut down my PC for 3 times in the last 2 weeks. No logs, no heat problems, no Win-logs or errors. But today it was really worse. The electricity in my house broke down for 3sec. The electrical fuse did not blow out, but it rattled very much. The PC went grey for a second and then black. I think my power supply and multiple socket both with protection against voltage fluctuations bought the PC 0,5-1sec. After the PC was off, all went normal. I can now also use the PC normaly.

SE5 does use 88% of my GPU... is this for real? I think that SE5 breaks the electric demand of the GPU, the power supply reacts and the voltage in the house broke down for a few seconds.
But does this destroy the PC and why is SE5 doing this? Is their a fix?


Thanks for help

nordstern

[MechBFP]

A GPU will use as much as it needs to in order to render the graphics at whatever frame rate you have it set to. A GPU running at 100% continuously while playing is perfectly fine, albeit nosier and creates a lot more heat in the same time span. Also mostly pointless as well if you are exceeding your display devices refresh rate. If you don't want the GPU running that much then your only choices are to lower graphics and/or set a frame cap below whatever it is at now.

[jonnin]

your pc needs to be on a UPS with a circuit breaker/shut off built into it so that if it does something weird it just shuts itself off, isolated from the home power grid, and also if something goes wrong in the house, the battery keeps the PC going for 10 min or so while the issue clears up (or you turn the PC off safely).

PC shutting down sounds like the power supply either isn't strong enough for the graphics card or is starting to fail (power supply is one of the most likely to fail parts in a desktop). Whole house brown out sounds more serious, but you would need to prove to me that its the computer doing it.

In any case this is not the game. The game may make a demand the hardware can't meet and be the trigger for it, but this is a pure hardware problem and not to worry you, but this kind of thing could be a fire hazard or dangerous for your PC's health. You need to get it straightened out asap, and make a hard drive backup asap.

[Mr. Hubble]

Originally posted by jonnin:

your pc needs to be on a UPS with a circuit breaker/shut off built into it so that if it does something weird it just shuts itself off, isolated from the home power grid, and also if something goes wrong in the house, the battery keeps the PC going for 10 min or so while the issue clears up (or you turn the PC off safely).

PC shutting down sounds like the power supply either isn't strong enough for the graphics card or is starting to fail (power supply is one of the most likely to fail parts in a desktop). Whole house brown out sounds more serious, but you would need to prove to me that its the computer doing it.

In any case this is not the game. The game may make a demand the hardware can't meet and be the trigger for it, but this is a pure hardware problem and not to worry you, but this kind of thing could be a fire hazard or dangerous for your PC's health. You need to get it straightened out asap, and make a hard drive backup asap.

Great advice. I had an electrician install a dedicated electrical line for my computer completely separate from my house needs works great!

[nordstern]

The problem is not the voltage. It seems that my PC broke the voltage in our appartment-grid. But in the sleepingroom or kitchen. Only the circle in the livingroom.

And that should not be possible. My power supply can shut off if something is wrong and my power outlet can handle fluctuation up to 70ms.

The problem is not my electric installation... it comes from the PC, because the PC makes this and only if i run Sniper Elite 5. Otherwise i had never this issues and i am living here for 16 years now.

And so the question is why does SE5 force my PC to do so and how can i change this. The FPS are limited to the display-FPS (144Hz).

[jonnin]

the game is demanding your PC to pull 100% of its power for the CPU and graphics card (mostly, everything else uses about the same power all the time, give or take minor ups and downs). You can attack it from the computer side (see if you can hard limit the power draw in bios or graphics card driver or set up your .exe for this game to only be able to use 1/2 of the CPU cores or whatnot) and from the game side (reduce resolution screen size, limit FPS to like 40 (still better than TV), or remove unnecessary graphical effects like reflections, particle effects, and so on. And that may or may not be enough to do it. But the point is that it should not crash the PC (which happens when the power supply can't meet the demand, eg the cpu + gpu total is more than the power supply has), and it should not affect the rest of the home for more than a 'did the light just blink' moment at worst, like when a powerful AC unit kicks on and the lights flash one time if you have seen that?

if lowering the game settings is insufficient, you can try a new power supply (bigger?), or a new computer (this one sounds like its nearing end of life), or play other games until you can get a new PC (sorry, hate to offer that one).