PC restarts mid game randomly

[nikk🐢]

So I do not know why it happens, I thought it was outdated drivers, or cables since I got new desk, but no, downloaded new drivers and reattached cables, and it still does it randomly, and it's not like my pc is loud or really hot, so I am clueless, can anyone help me out?

[DragonDad83]

do you have frame limits turned on? if so try turning that off. happened to me when I clicked on during a match. Turned it back off and good so far.

[Bxbyharley]

Ive had the exact same issue since the winter patch got dropped mid comp game just pc restarts and I have no idea how to fix this!

[nikk🐢]

Hmm, I guess I can try that fps thing, tho I haven't had restart since, but also heard on reddit it made some guy powers went off completely due to that

[Azuwi]

nikk🐢 lähetti viestin:

So I do not know why it happens, I thought it was outdated drivers, or cables since I got new desk, but no, downloaded new drivers and reattached cables, and it still does it randomly, and it's not like my pc is loud or really hot, so I am clueless, can anyone help me out?

does the same for me but on valorant.. turns out it is a valorant issue and not a pc issue. it could be the anti-cheat software rivals is using

[nikk🐢]

as soon I turned fps limit off my pc became x5 louder LOL, no thank you

[nikk🐢]

Azuwi lähetti viestin:

nikk🐢 lähetti viestin:

So I do not know why it happens, I thought it was outdated drivers, or cables since I got new desk, but no, downloaded new drivers and reattached cables, and it still does it randomly, and it's not like my pc is loud or really hot, so I am clueless, can anyone help me out?

does the same for me but on valorant.. turns out it is a valorant issue and not a pc issue. it could be the anti-cheat software rivals is using

Highly possible

[Nosebleed]

PSU problems, change you PSU to a new one (or a working one from a friend)

P.S. had the same problem a few years ago

[nikk🐢]

so umm yeah lähetti viestin:

PSU problems, change you PSU to a new one (or a working one from a friend)

P.S. had the same problem a few years ago

read previous page of thread before commenting, it's not psu issue

[ΛΞL™⚡]

Sounds like your PC is overheating or your PSU is failling.

[Nosebleed]

nikk🐢 lähetti viestin:

so umm yeah lähetti viestin:

PSU problems, change you PSU to a new one (or a working one from a friend)

P.S. had the same problem a few years ago

read previous page of thread before commenting, it's not psu issue :torielsad:

Change PSU

[nikk🐢]

nikk🐢 lähetti viestin:

(I have/had exact same issue with black screen, but nothing seem to be burned) So since making thread haven't had a restart yet, but I notice few things that might be at cause. So I turned off discord overlay cause this game for some reason blocks inputs outside of game so I can't mute myself with a button. Turned off hardware acceleration in discord as well, cause well I notice that it was only during vc with friends so perhaps that was issue, as well I did clean install of drivers AGAIN, as well every windows update.
As I said it can't be my pc cause I can play games that take much more resources, temptreture while playing rivals is around 49c-52c which is really low, as well cpu is average at 20-/+% and rarely goes above 50% as well gpu is on average 40+% usage. Power usage is not higher either, only thing I notice is that, fans seems to not slow down longer I play RIVALS specifically, so just making break after like 2 hours seems to prevent restart for me, well can't really test it cause haven't had it happen since. But since I monitor every session I play with invidia performance tab open I can guess what is exact cause, main thing I notice is that, klyntar and spider shibuya are most resource heavy maps, as weirdly mvp screen, character select in LOBBY jumps gpu usage from like 20% to 70% or 80% by just hovering over character icon. Either way I hope it gets fixed soon or not i heard people have same issues in stalker 2 and black ops 6. So it's not just rivals issue, so it's optimization issue, cause there is no way game like bg3 that makes my go to 65c and gpu is going 70% on average on not even highest settings, did not cause single restart while playing. Also a lot of people I seen mention that going above 120fps is causing problems too, but since I don't even have monitor for that can't test it myself.

i already said multiple times on previous page my pc is not overheating and is not even reaching high tempreture, christ people read before typing

[nikk🐢]

if it's not happening while playing heavier games, or any other game, it's game issue not my psu

[DragonDad83]

so far no issues after turning fps limits off

[DragonDad83]

Just wanted to come back and say for me it was def the frame limits. Days later and no more reboots.

[Gh8st2Sm00v3]

Good evening,

I have an

NVIDIA 1660 SUPER
24GB RAM
2.2 TB memory



I've been having this issue randomly since September of last year. I've done all the things you've done and the only thing that seems to fix it temporarily, is reinstalling windows, CLEAN everytime.

After about 2 weeks, it will run fine, and then BAM, I am back to random restarts. Only happens with certain games. Marvel Rivals and Overwatch( which is what started it).

I recently installed new 750watt 80plus gold PSU. New thermal paste on Graphics card. Cleaned fans and entire system.


I surmise it's an issue with windows I the last year or so that conflicts with the motherboards. I play WuWa, Dbz, the finals, sonic and everything just fine..but rivals Crashes my pc to hell every often. Even viewer only say power issue, but doesn't specify what th issue is just that the system shut down incorrectly.

Solution: clean reinstall windows every few weeks when this starts to happen. It will work fine for a few days to a couple of weeks before the next restart. My last restart, (until Jan 4) was Dec 27th when I reset the PC. Been playing rivals until it did the random resets. Back to reinstalling windows for now.

Back up you important files to a file drive and never get to comfortable downloading things to system lol sorrh