The game reboots my pc

[Nero Trombadaria]

Easy as that. It happens almost immediately if I set everything ultra, it took 5 hours without some options unchecked like crepus ray or glooming and translucent and so on... but it did eventually.
Error Kernel power 41 says in the log
I have i5 12400, radeon rx6700xt 12gb, 16gb ddr4 ram, game is on an ssd.
PSU is corsair cx750, should hold.
So what's the deal here?
It's REALLY annoying.
Already tried using a wall plug only for the pc, useless.

[Asgo]

sadly windows error logs often lack helpfulness. If I am not mistaken the "Error Kernel power 41" basically just states what you already noticed: the PC rebooted suddenly without clean shutdown

given that games generally don't directly reboot your system it is probably a hardware issue, in particular in the gaming context where it's stressed.
But what that specifically is almost impossible to say from the outside, memory errors, overheating of cpu/gpu, psu and probably some other stuff. :)

For me it was more the GPU getting hot than the CPU necessarily, what with different hardware and settings that probably doesn't say that much.

My recommendation if the rebooting persists. Try a set of more hardware specific benchmarks and try to reproduce the error and narrow its source. (stuff like Memtest, cinebench etc)

[Savoyard]

You're a little light on RAM, and I don't know about your CPU - I went AMD this cycle. If you built or bought your PC all at once, your CPU is plenty modern.

Intel and AMD both have tools available to monitor the health of your hardware. I'd recommend turning the graphics down a bit, running the game for a couple of hours with both (CPU/GPU) hardware monitors active, and then alt-tabbing out to check. One or both may show a steady buildup of heat.

If it's your GPU, I'd recommend checking your case fans and ensuring that the fans on your GPU are actually running when they need to.

If it's your CPU, the last time I had a similar problem, my thermal paste had cracked and dried and I needed a new coat for my heat sink to work effectively. Aside from ensuring your CPU heat sink fan actually runs, re-applying thermal paste might be the way to go.

[Mack]

Ultra on that rig isn't going to work. You're probably tripping some kind of protection on the PSU or the GPU is hard crashing.

Just pick medium settings and reduce shadows and the other crap and see if it works. This game isn't brilliant looking graphically anyway.

[Danemous]

Theres multiple people reporting this. Alot of the time it would be the PSU, but i really dont think its the case here. I had the same problem with more than efficient hardware. I tried lowering the vsync setting in game, frame capping at 60, and any ultrea settings to high. Also dusted the little tray under my PSU just incase but its pretty new and never have this problem with any other game. You could try up your fan profile maybe aswell

[Aurite]

I had an issue that would crash and turn my monitor off, fixed it by removing AA in the video settings.

[Nero Trombadaria]

Thanks everybody, yesterday I played 5 hour consecutively without a hard reboot and then it did, I was on custom settinga - all max but the last 3 options mentioned above. It's quite frustrating though, I bet my gtx970 wouldn't have made a single crack - though I would have had to play on minimun if ever.
I'll try to monitor the heat, thanks. so 16gb of ram is low? Man...

[Nilserrich]

A quick google search says:

Mostly, the Kernel-Power 41 error is caused by the wrong device drivers on your computer, especially an old or corrupted sound card driver. So you can try to update all the available drivers on your computer to solve this problem.

I would say I would look at my complete driver architecture first. Especially the mentioned sound card drivers. From my own experience, old or even wrong sound card drivers can cause many different problems.

[John Newbye]

Try to clean install the graphic drivers or use another version of them, sometimes can help.

[G Willikers]

Happening to me too, I let Nvidea "optimize" my settings. I think my CPU is overheating since that's the only temp that seems elevated. Probably doesn't help that it's midsummer.

Going to see if running on Vulkan helps since Nvidea was part of the group that created it, maybe it'll play nicer with their drivers.

[Chaosolous]

I do not think you have a PC for Ultra.

Try High.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Nero Trombadaria:

The game reboots my pc
Easy as that. It happens almost immediately if I set everything ultra, it took 5 hours without some options unchecked like crepus ray or glooming and translucent and so on... but it did eventually.
Error Kernel power 41 says in the log
I have i5 12400, radeon rx6700xt 12gb, 16gb ddr4 ram, game is on an ssd.
PSU is corsair cx750, should hold.
So what's the deal here?
It's REALLY annoying.
Already tried using a wall plug only for the pc, useless.

Originally posted by Nero Trombadaria:

Thanks everybody, yesterday I played 5 hour consecutively without a hard reboot and then it did, I was on custom settinga - all max but the last 3 options mentioned above. It's quite frustrating though, I bet my gtx970 wouldn't have made a single crack - though I would have had to play on minimun if ever.
I'll try to monitor the heat, thanks. so 16gb of ram is low? Man...

Have you given something like this a shot?
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3015185600

[G Willikers]

Originally posted by アンジェル:

Have you given something like this a shot?
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3015185600

Thanks, I'll give it a shot

[G Willikers]

Think I figured it out. I just rechecked minimum specs and noticed it says SSD required (ironically while I was moving it to the SSD to see if that would help).

[Dr0W]

Originally posted by Nero Trombadaria:

Thanks everybody, yesterday I played 5 hour consecutively without a hard reboot and then it did, I was on custom settinga - all max but the last 3 options mentioned above. It's quite frustrating though, I bet my gtx970 wouldn't have made a single crack - though I would have had to play on minimun if ever.
I'll try to monitor the heat, thanks. so 16gb of ram is low? Man...

My wife's playing fine with 8GB ram.

[G Willikers]

Originally posted by Dr0W:

Originally posted by Nero Trombadaria:

Thanks everybody, yesterday I played 5 hour consecutively without a hard reboot and then it did, I was on custom settinga - all max but the last 3 options mentioned above. It's quite frustrating though, I bet my gtx970 wouldn't have made a single crack - though I would have had to play on minimun if ever.
I'll try to monitor the heat, thanks. so 16gb of ram is low? Man...

My wife's playing fine with 8GB ram.

Yeah 16 is recommended on the store page and 8 ddr4 is fine, I get that some people like to flex how much RAM they have but I have never heard of a game that recommended, let alone required, more than 16 GB RAM.