PC shut down/ restart while playing

[ฬ𝖔𝖑𝖋𝖎𝖊]

Hello, is there anyone can help? my pc restarts/shutdown everytime i play sleeping dogs, after about an hour, it is very anoying, it happens with this very game ONLY i have an i7 and 12gb of ram and GTX580 i really dont know what to do, any help?

[Sentient_Toaster]

Shutdown suggests a hardware issue -- e.g. overtaxed power supply, bad memory, instability from overheating. If you don't do much else that is graphically intensive, that would explain why you would see it here.

[ฬ𝖔𝖑𝖋𝖎𝖊]

oh i see, but it is weird because lot of people had the same issue, but i couldnt find any solution

[Sustanon]

What i7 do you have and is it overclocked? Any overclock on the gpu ? Also what settings are you playing at and does the issue occur on even say low settings?

[ฬ𝖔𝖑𝖋𝖎𝖊]

yeah my CPU its overcklocked i guess it is a i7 950 @ 2.67ghz (8cpus) i think it is overcklocked because after that it says 4.0 ghz, well according to dxdiag i do not know about the GPU though, and the game keep doing that stuff while lowering some settings, i think are: SSAO Normal, HD texture pack on, world level detail extreme, and after that everything it is on normal, i disabled the texture pack but it keeps doing it. the game runs flawless but in cutscenes kind of stutters sometimes, i do not know what to do.

[☼ ColdSun [ResetEra]]

Sounds like it may be overheating. You arn't running on Air are you?

[ฬ𝖔𝖑𝖋𝖎𝖊]

Originally posted by ColdSun:

Sounds like it may be overheating. You arn't running on Air are you?

not sure what do you mean :/

[☼ ColdSun [ResetEra]]

The i7 950 has a clock speed of 3.06 normally. The i920 however runs normally at 2.67. Either way, if your running at 4.0ghz, you're running a decent overclock, more so on the 920. If you're using the stock (the one that came with) the processor, then you are definitely overheating as those particular heatsinks suck even on non-overclocked processors.

To check your cpu temps, you may want to download a monitoring program such as PCProbe and check the temps yourself. If the temps are indeed high, then you will definitely want to either return to normal speeds or get a better cooler. The Corsair H100 or equivelent would more than solve the issue.

[IRL Gamer]

Hey, I'm having the same problem with my PC shutting down, usualyl within an hour of starting the game. I'm using a AMD 7850 myself and the performance on sleeping dogs has been fine, so I too am curious as to why my pc keeps crashing.

[☼ ColdSun [ResetEra]]

What are your GPU and CPU temps?

[Agni]

i cant even start the game

[ฬ𝖔𝖑𝖋𝖎𝖊]

damn it this game is so immersive it is a rare beast!!! that is why i insist on fixing it, and i cannot quit playing, but this problem is driving me nuts, last couple of sessions i was able to play about hour and a half, without any issues, perhaps it is the weather way to HOT, but i guess it is not because it is only happen with this very game ONLY, perhaps there is an engine related bug that causes the shutdowns... im not very good at this.

[☼ ColdSun [ResetEra]]

Rycell, what are your CPU temps? It could very well be that the other games you play arn't stressing the cpu/gpu. Additionally, why are you still running it at 4.0ghz?

[hinti21]

Download MSI Afterburner (http://event.msi.com/vga/afterburner/download.htm), it's a monitoring program for your graphics card. Check the temps.

[ฬ𝖔𝖑𝖋𝖎𝖊]

Originally posted by ColdSun:

Rycell, what are your CPU temps? It could very well be that the other games you play arn't stressing the cpu/gpu. Additionally, why are you still running it at 4.0ghz?

well acording to MSI afterburner it says 40/46 i think, but i just turned on the pc, i will game a while and alt tab after 40 minutes and see if it changes, and about why em i still ryning at 4.0 ghz, well that is because im an ignorant with this stuff, and i do not know how to revert to normal levels :( short story: i had a xeon proccessor and 2 580 but my old power supply went kamikaze and it took the life of one of my 580, and while reparing at the store, the owner drop my xeon and it died, and the idiot when he replaced the proccessor, he put a dumb i7 instead of a new xeon -_- and i am waiting for my original proccessor to arrive, i hope next week! that guy (the owner) does like to overcklock everything he is very ambitious so he says. i know i speak way too much :/


EDIT: now after 60 minutes of playing sleeping dogs it says GPU temp 89, GPU usage 97/98, Frame rate 78/79, FAN SPEED 74. so i am cool? or...

[MikeyMcKillYou]

This may sound stupid because everyone over-looks this.. My PC shutdown for any game for almost a year, I put a fan to the side blowing onto the tower and I was okay.. One day I decided to run to Radio Shack and pick up some thermal paste for the PCU and fan, I haven't had a problem at all for the last 10 months. Take the fan off the CPU, use a credit card or something that won't scratch the CPU..

Scrape off all old crusty thermal paste and apply new paste, put back together and see if that works! Like I said, so simple that it sounds pointless, but it worked for me! The paste is only like 5 bucks maybe? Try it out man!

Take care.