PC restarts randomly

[YUMm19]

I finished the game and had no issues, but now on my second play through the game will just restart my PC. I believe this started happening after the update.

Not overheating, could be PSU but I don't have issues other than this game.

[Esau]

How does it restart? As in the power cuts entirely and everything dies, then suddenly comes back on again? If so yeah, that sounds like you have a borked PSU or CPU, one of the two of them might be dying.

[zeanomourph]

I don't know what the problem you're having is, but I can guarantee with absolute 100% certainty that the game is not restarting your PC. That's not a thing. This is an issue with either your hardware, or some other weird software conflicts.
PC cutting out while you're playing the game is not the same thing as the game restarting your PC. These kinds of distinctions are important to make in troubleshooting, speaking as someone who has been an electronics service/repair technician for the past 20 years.

[oldschooldiablo]

If i had a dollar for every time someone used the doesnt happen with other games bs I'd be rich by now.

Other games not doing this means absolutely jack crap. As another has said games do not cause this issue.

Check ur system it's more likely as someone said ur psu or cpu is dying

[Hidden Gunman]

Odds on the psu. If it was cpu you might be seeing other indicators.

[Patpat]

Check for hints in the event manager, I know it will not point you definitely towards one issue but it can help. I had this with 2 games that unlike this one were driving my gpu crazy for instance. But yeah most likely hardware related I'm afraid.

[corthew]

You computer may be overheating. Check and make sure all your fans are free of dust and working, especially the CPU and graphics card fan/s.
I've got a decent system and I'll still remove the sides of the case before playing a game this demanding.

[Patpat]

Originally posted by corthew:

You computer may be overheating. Check and make sure all your fans are free of dust and working, especially the CPU and graphics card fan/s.
I've got a decent system and I'll still remove the sides of the case before playing a game this demanding.

Exactly, amazing how dust accumulates

[SimranZenov]

Sounds like overheating to me... Games can't restart your PC. The CPU or GPU are likely overheating. Most computers have a thermal throttling mechanism that intentionally shuts your computer down to prevent damage.

[Calculus]

If issue happens only in this game, you could try checking if this is SSD issue, game might be refering to a memory block that is physically damaged on your SSD, which causes a crash.
Some SSD supports turning off certain memory blocks, some dont, in which case you would need to buy a new ssd.

[Weird Potato]

Originally posted by YUMm19:

I finished the game and had no issues, but now on my second play through the game will just restart my PC. I believe this started happening after the update.

Not overheating, could be PSU but I don't have issues other than this game.

Your PC restarting is NEVER the fault of a game. The game is exposing /tripping a preexisting issue.

[Malum]

Originally posted by zeanomourph:

I don't know what the problem you're having is, but I can guarantee with absolute 100% certainty that the game is not restarting your PC. That's not a thing. This is an issue with either your hardware, or some other weird software conflicts.
PC cutting out while you're playing the game is not the same thing as the game restarting your PC. These kinds of distinctions are important to make in troubleshooting, speaking as someone who has been an electronics service/repair technician for the past 20 years.

While in real world probability, this boarders on 99.XX% likely... technically, it IS possible for software to do this, even accidentally. Again, its very rare, but there have been cases in the past when the memory management of a game was so extremely poor that it was effectively a fork-bomb, leading to a forced PC reset.

... OP, this is basically me pushing my nerd specs up with 1 finger and saying, "Ummm... Actually!". The chances that it is hardware related (or at least not KCD 2 related) is virtually 100%.

[SirBrutal]

rubbish. it's your PC, nothing else.