Dragons Dogma shuts down my whole PC

[Honky Pete]

When I play for 10 min my whole PC just shuts down instantly. I have CAM running in the top corner so I can see if my CPU or GPU are overheating. This is not the case since my CPU and GPU dont go above 60C.

These are my specs:

CPU: Intel Core i7 860 2.80GHz
GPU: Nvidia Geforce GTX 970 MSI 4GB VRAM
RAM: DDR3 8GB
OS: Windows 10 Pro

I've tried redownloading the game but the same thing happens.
Is it badly optimized? It must be since I can run all the latest games on high settings.

EDIT: I'm getting a new PSU next week (EVGA SUPERnova 750W G2)
I'm also getting a new case with better airflow. I'll let everyone know if the new PSU solved this problem.

EDIT 2: The problem has been fixed, I got myself a new case (fractal design r4) and a new PSU (EVGA Supernova 750w). The game doesn't shut down my pc anymore after 1 hour of gaming. Thanks to everyone that posted their (possible) solutions, you have not only helped me but also tons of other people, and for that I thank you.

[[ҒџпҜ]OreoSlayer]

İlk olarak Psycho4Years tarafından gönderildi:

İlk olarak ҒџпҜ Brendan Fraser tarafından gönderildi:

Something in your PC is probably overheating. It could be your memory controller or RAM since they rarely show those statistics on an overlay temperature meters. It could also be the GPU VRAM.

I have CAM running in the background so I can see the temperture while im playing. It doesn't go over 60C, both CPU and GPU.

My money is on temps, frankly. There's more than CPU and GPU to worry about. I had a bad voltage controller on a motherboard that overheated all the time. I've also had memory overheat.

A good idea is after the computer shuts down like that, you should unplug your computer, hold the power button to clear the motherboard of charge and feel around to see if parts of the motherboard itself are hot to the touch.

You could also run a bunch of benchmarks from the heaviest benchmarking applications to fully stress your PC to see if it is indeed a problem with a component failing.

Event Viewer in Control Panel might help, too. Dragon's Dogma shouldn't be able to call any commands that would specifically crash your PC since modern computers are protected by a layer of hardware driver coding. Other than that, I don't know of anything else off the top of my head.

EDIT: I just realized that you could have outdated drivers that might be causing the problem, too.

[Custódio]

Well, I have the same problem. Sometimes it's a blue screen. Sometimes it just crashes. Sometimes it freezes.

My PSU is 1000W because until two months ago I had SLI but I sold one of my cards. I'm kind of glad to see that besides the OP there are a couple of people in this very thread with the same problem, so while it might have something to do with my hardware it might be some specific problem as well.

My specs:
- i7 2700k, no overclock
- GTX 970, no overclock
- 8GB System ram
- Windows 10 64-bit
- No overlays like MSI, fraps, etc;
- No ShadowPlay on the background;
- No anti-virus software running on the background;

I've just "reseted" Windows and installed all drives once more, but it keeps crashing my computer.

[[ҒџпҜ]OreoSlayer]

İlk olarak Custódio tarafından gönderildi:

Well, I have the same problem. Sometimes it's a blue screen. Sometimes it just crashes. Sometimes it freezes.

My PSU is 1000W because until two months ago I had SLI but I sold one of my cards. I'm kind of glad to see that besides the OP there are a couple of people in this very thread with the same problem, so while it might have something to do with my hardware it might be some specific problem as well.

My specs:
- i7 2700k, no overclock
- GTX 970, no overclock
- 8GB System ram
- Windows 10 64-bit
- No overlays like MSI, fraps, etc;
- No anti-virus software running on the background;

I've just "reseted" Windows and installed all drives once more, but it keeps crashing my computer.

Do you, by chance, have a 21:9 monitor? I've heard of a lot of people having problems with those. The game wasn't developed for 21:9 and it might be fixed if you set the game to windowed mode with a different resolution.

[Honky Pete]

İlk olarak lanessar tarafından gönderildi:

İlk olarak ;451850849189252980 tarafından gönderildi:

Ok i'll have a look, it might be my video card driver because I had some weird flickering when I was just browsing the internet the otherday. It even told me that the kernal driver was not responding and that it has fixed itself.

Then try the video card driver fix first, should take a few minutes. Make sure to use the DDU tool first, then re-install the drivers. Don't reinstall over the top of "uninstalled" drivers.

I bring up the PSU aspect as people think "they just stop working".

They're more like vampires.

Sometimes, they are sneaky and die quietly.

Sometimes, it explodes in a gory shower.

And sometimes, they just do quirky things before exploding.

You good sir just fixed my ''nvidia driver kernel stopped working'' problem. DDU did an amazing job at removing all the drivers. Could this mean that my pc wont shut down while play Dragons Dogma?

[hardwiredsin]

İlk olarak Psycho4Years tarafından gönderildi:

İlk olarak lanessar tarafından gönderildi:

This means your CPUI is overheating, or your PSU is failing. Since you've ruled out the CPU temps, it's your PSU. This could be using a low-powered PSU for the power draw (I believe you need a 450W minimum for a 970) or the PSU is failing and needs to be replaced.

I'd do this before the PSU causes serious hardware failure. You can fry your entire setup if the PSU is bad.

The game isn't badly optimized. In fact, I'd say it's quite the reverse. On a 980 TI and 15-4670K @ stock, I'm running at 4K resolution without any drops from 120 FPS. I'm also forcing AA and SSAO from the nvidia app, so...

but that is the thing i dont get, I can run RBS Siege and the witcher 3 without a problem. I believe that my Power Supply has 500w if not 550w.

That doesn't matter at all, every single game is different. Back when the original Bioshock game came out my gaming rig at the time would keep crashing even though I played every other game perfectly at the time. It turned out my RAM voltage was to low.

[Snadzies]

500w is way more than enough to run almost any single GPU system.
Forget about wattage ratings, what really matters is getting a QUALITY PSU.
Seasonic, Antec, Corsair RM series, Rosewill Capstone series EVGA Supernova series.

Go to jonnyguru and techpowerup and look for reviews on what ever PSU series you're looking at.



http://www.anandtech.com/show/8568/the-geforce-gtx-970-review-feat-evga/15

Look at the power consumtion under load.
That is the total system draw (i7 4960X @4.2 + GPU)

With your system, OP, you shouldn't be drawing more than 300 watts at the worst of times.

[Devil Djinn]

Almost always hardware issue, heat,psu or ram. If its a ram problem, it will blue screen before shutting down, with a windows log error of "irq_no_less"
theres more to a psu than the wattage, thats like 30% of it. Theres the 12v rail on a psu, and how many amps you are drawing from that 12v rail. could be too mcuh for a crap psu.
for instance, your have 20 amps on the 12v rail, and all your hardware is drawing 33 amps. this would cause the psu to overheat or fail.
Also remeber, if your psu is not gold/silver/bronze rated, than there is no guarantee that your psu can even run at the advertised voltage under load.

[Honky Pete]

İlk olarak Devil Djinn tarafından gönderildi:

Almost always hardware issue, heat,psu or ram. If its a ram problem, it will blue screen before shutting down, with a windows log error of "irq_no_less"
theres more to a psu than the wattage, thats like 30% of it. Theres the 12v rail on a psu, and how many amps you are drawing from that 12v rail. could be too mcuh for a crap psu.

Its not my ram since im not getting a blue screen. Pretty sure its my 6 year old PSU. Time to upgrade I guess.

[Ea nasir]

dont know if you fixed it or not but this happend to me with mad max and gta 5 my pc wasent overheating or anything but i changed my case and added 6 fans havent ♥♥♥♥♥♥ a pc shutdown or BSOD at all

[Dagon]

my game keeps freezing so i have to manually shut it down. usually after 5 or 10 minutes on a brand new system ,win 10, gtx 980ti, i7-5820k, i cant figure out what the hell is going on. anyone wanna help me troubleshoot? ive goten newer versions of all drivers through msi live update, flashed the bios even. this rig worked fine for 2 weeks then divinity eh\nhanced edition and this game both started freezing it.

[[ҒџпҜ]OreoSlayer]

İlk olarak Dagon tarafından gönderildi:

my game keeps freezing so i have to manually shut it down. usually after 5 or 10 minutes on a brand new system ,win 10, gtx 980ti, i7-5820k, i cant figure out what the hell is going on. anyone wanna help me troubleshoot? ive goten newer versions of all drivers through msi live update, flashed the bios even. this rig worked fine for 2 weeks then divinity eh\nhanced edition and this game both started freezing it.

Does it ever freeze when left alone for a while on a moderately intensive task? It could be a few things. I could be a short circuit, which means you need to check your motherboard mounting screws. It could also be a RAM issue of some sort, so type memtest in the search menu on windows. That's all I can think of right now. Need more coffee.

[Custódio]

Guys, for some reason disabling the Steam overlay fixed everything for me. No more crashes, freezes, etc. It's worth to give it a shot.

[Dagon]

İlk olarak ҒџпҜ Brendan Fraser tarafından gönderildi:

İlk olarak Dagon tarafından gönderildi:

my game keeps freezing so i have to manually shut it down. usually after 5 or 10 minutes on a brand new system ,win 10, gtx 980ti, i7-5820k, i cant figure out what the hell is going on. anyone wanna help me troubleshoot? ive goten newer versions of all drivers through msi live update, flashed the bios even. this rig worked fine for 2 weeks then divinity eh\nhanced edition and this game both started freezing it.

Does it ever freeze when left alone for a while on a moderately intensive task? It could be a few things. I could be a short circuit, which means you need to check your motherboard mounting screws. It could also be a RAM issue of some sort, so type memtest in the search menu on windows. That's all I can think of right now. Need more coffee.

I did the memtest yesterday, i was asked to do that and some other basic stuff by the service tech i called at cyberpower. Some games seem to work. i just played lords of the fallen, a notoriously buggy hunk and no freezing for over an hour. although i can sometimes get that long from dogma aswell. the motherboard mounting screws im wondering about now. when i got this pc the harddrive was just hanging off the tray due to shipping. but it worked fine for 2 weeks.

[Dagon]

Brendan Frasier, i have 12 days to decide if i should send this dude back to the techs but im worried not only will they not be able to find anything but it will possibly take more shipping damage. does manually powering downand back up a pc repeatedly damage hardware in anyway? im tempted to just keep testing myself

[CrazyLamer]

You got some hardcore issues with your computer....
I would advise to format and reinstall it.