Driver power state failure - blue screen

[viannax]

Hi, i've got the same problem as many people seem to have : after 95% charging a campaign, either new one or my old saves, the game crashes and i get : "driver_power_state_failure" bluescreen, and my PC restarts.
I've been looking ALL threads on TW forums about this problem, nobody, since 2016, seems to have found a viable solution. I've reinstalled steam, the game alone, cut off the Nvidia geforce experience, run as administrator, it wouldn t work since i downloaded the wooden elves DLC. Even if it worked all well before that, i have something like a 100 hours on the game...

Anyone has a solution here ?

Playing on a HP laptop, CPU i7 8550U 1.80 GHz - 1.99 GHz, Nvidia Gefore MX150, 16 G RAM.

Looking forward for your answers.

[viannax]

oh, and i refreshed totally my system, reinstalled all drivers, updated... Nothing worked

[Inardesco]

Is your GPU even good enough for the game?

Your CPU doesnt seem to een have the right core speed

Your laptop simply doesnt meet the requirements

[viannax]

it worked pretty well for 6 month, so i guess the cpu isn t the problem...

[Agemouk]

What you've just listed should hit near the bottom of the minimum of the specs for the game.

Laptop crash and restarts are very often about heat. My advice is to get a temperature application to check your internal laptop temps, particularly for the graphics card. It sounds like your laptop's heat is spiking and your laptop is auto-switching itself off to protect the hardware.

[viannax]

maybe, i'll check that, thanks for the answer !

[Mountain King]

Your GPU seems significantly under the minimim requirements for the game. If heat is not the issue then it may just be that your luck ran out and you shouldn't technically have ever been able to run it.

[hughw]

Errors like that are almost always hardware related - often to do with heat, and many laptops suffer from this. One trick is to use an external fan and blow it onto where the GPU/CPU chip/chips are located.

It's pretty easy to find usually since it's the hottest part of the back of the laptop. This trick works with a Microsoft surface which will overheat after playing Skyrim for a while. People even buy USB fans for this purpose.

[viannax]

thx for the tips, i guess i'll never be able to play it again unless i buy a new laptop :'(

[utilityguy]

All I know is my bluescreens stopped happening when I decided to just have an entire side of my PC opened up in order to let my Geforce GTX 1080 graphics card exhale its hot heat out into the air and not bounce back into the PC--essentially creating a miniature version of Venus.

So I would guess it's simply your laptop shutting down before it goes critical from overheating. Maybe playing on the lowest settings can help, but since it's a laptop... I don't know what else you can reasonably do to help it stay cool. Of course this is assuming your problem is a heat problem.

[viannax]

I tried the last option, i just completed a full disk cleaning and windows reset... i'll let you know if it worked :)

[viannax]

Hey everyone, after a long time i came with a solution. The first time, one year ago, i just rebooted my computer entierly and somehow it was enough to make the game work again. I tried to play after a while a few weeks ago, and the blue screen came back. I finally discovered the true reason of the blue screen : GPU goes to sleep at the end of the loading, and can't "wake up" when it has to. This was caused by alimentation issue, and it was in the end pretty easy to figure out. Only thing i had to do was to go to the Nvidia Controle Panel, and change the alimentation properties from "quality" to "maximal performances". And it's working again ! so don't give up :)

[an entire Roman legion]

I'd ditch that puny laptop for a glorrious 50Kilo gaming rig

[viannax]

it's all about money money

[burningmime]

Originally posted by hughw:

One trick is to use an external fan and blow it onto where the GPU/CPU chip/chips are located.

Save money by getting your kid/friend/neighbor to blow on it instead of buying a fan.