PC restarts when starting AC shaodws

[Buurt]

I saw a few other posts about this, what in the hell is that "bug" ? every 5+ times or something AC Shadows just restarts my PC on startup and its 100% nothing with my PC because I play 100 other games where this never happens while with AC shadows it now happened around 5 times and a few other people also had that problem.
I really like this game but whats up with ubisoft and the weirdest problems and bugs ever

[space]

that's not a "bug", that's hardware failure, could be psu, could be overheating

[Buurt]

Originally posted by space:

that's not a "bug", that's hardware failure, could be psu, could be overheating

Still games fault, not happening with any other game and enough other forums posts about it just at ac shadows

[renboy]

Same thing happened for me a few months ago with a specific (very demanding) game. Turned out my PSU was short circuting the computer when it demanded too much electricity. New PSU fixed that issue for me.

This is not the issue with the game - and it most likely happens to you just because it's a very demanding game. The devs of the game cannot fix it because the game is not doing anything wrong.

[Raider Deci]

Games never do this. Stress-test your computer

[longjohn119]

90+% of the time a reboot = Tripping the Over Current Protection or other safety in your power supply. This is especially a problem with 3080's and 3090's because of the inherent current transients on the Samsung 8 NM node

I helped one guy who had the same problem with AC Black Flag with a 3080 but AC Odyssey and AC Valhalla both worked just fine despite being far more demanding than Black Flag. I had the same problem with a RX 5700 non-XT flashed with a XT VBIOS, in certain areas where I'd be hiding in the bushes every time a Brute Red Coat would light up to indicate I could assassinate him the computer would reboot. Odyssey and every other game I had at that time worked perfectly. So I changed out the EVGA 650W bronze with Corsair 650W Gold and that cured the problem. In fact my nephew still uses that power supply with a 3700X and a 3070 Ti I gave him. The old EVGA I modded it and used it for the 12 V and 5V supply for a 3D printer and a Raspberry Pi that remotely controls it. In that application it never comes close to tripping the OCP

[Vik]

Originally posted by space:

that's not a "bug", that's hardware failure, could be psu, could be overheating

Could be faulty RAM...

[Buurt]

Originally posted by Raider Deci:

Games never do this. Stress-test your computer

Did a whole 1 hour stress test on PSU and every other thing with max stress and no problem at all, 100% fine, no restart.
Its 120% game fault.
No other game does it, no stress test does it, multiple people complain about shadows doing it.

[Locket Rauncher]

Originally posted by Buurt:

I saw a few other posts about this, what in the hell is that "bug" ? every 5+ times or something AC Shadows just restarts my PC on startup and its 100% nothing with my PC because I play 100 other games where this never happens while with AC shadows it now happened around 5 times and a few other people also had that problem.
I really like this game but whats up with ubisoft and the weirdest problems and bugs ever

Nothing to worry about here.

Your PC is jut trying to protect you from playing trash.

[erikuelo]

same issue here

[ZDuB]

you can setup your pc not to restart when you get errors like that

[Boris The Blade]

If you are using an Nvidia GPU and one of the newer drivers that came out after the 5xxx series launch, it is possibly tied to that. I was having a similar issue with my 9800x3d, RTX 4080 and 4k 240hz OLED (with 572.83 driver), every other time I would launch the game it would lock up and reboot the PC, the only fix I found that worked was going back to an older video driver, 566.36 or 566.45 hotfix driver and I haven't had a single reboot since. This will not work if you have a 5xxx series card though since they need the newer drivers just to operate.

[Dodece]

Originally posted by Raider Deci:

Games never do this. Stress-test your computer

That is absolutely one hundred percent not true. Not that it is true in this specific case, but a game can really be that broken. Usually when the game is on the older side, and even worse it isn't properly updated. Neither of which obviously applies in this situation, and most likely they're running some kind of potato.

That being said yes game code can be such garbage. That it can bring even a beastly system to its knees. I had Alan Wake do that to my rig not too long ago, and no it wasn't my power supply a thousand watt platinum here, and everything else I've got equally future proofed. That game and that game alone had the problem,