This game causes my breaker to flip

[Thunder Bagel]

No other game does this. I start it up, play for a little bit and my breaker flips. I have to go down to my basemenet and flip it back on and restart my computer. Again, I play AAA games and Paradox GS games and none of them flips my breaker

[Montecalm]

Call an electrician. No way can any game flip a breaker switch.

[Thunder Bagel]

Originally posted by Montecalm:

Call an electrician. No way can any game flip a breaker switch.

That's what I thought too but it literally never happens except when I'm playing this specific game. I guess I'll call an electrician then lol

[Defective Dopamine Pez Dispenser]

The amount of power pulled from your wall can't exceed the TDP of your components, or the wattage of your PSU. No software can magically draw more power than what your hardware draws maximally.

Disclaimer: This assumes you know what you're doing, and how to proceed safely. Don't do so if you don't. Google first. Proceed at your own, sole risk. That said, if you're comfortable with that, to test this, were I in your situation I would perform some rigorous stress testing and heavy benchmarks.

Things like Prime95, FurMark at high resolutions, Heaven and Valley benchmarks, and AIDA64 Extreme. Things that tax the various components and, preferably, multiple components at once.

Only get them from reputable sites (again, Google is your friend.) be thorough and cautious and safe. Don't proceed until/unless you have high confidence you know what you're doing, and that you're willing to risk thermal or other damage.

The software mentioned won't cause any thermal stability issues in and of itself, but might reveal thermal or other instability that already exists, and only becomes apparent under extremely heavy load. And once apparent, damage is possible. I've never had it happen in many decades, but it can. So again, proceed at your own risk.

Odds are, under sufficiently heavy load and power draw scenarios, your breaker will trip regardless of the cause. This game isn't some magical outlier, it's just - for whatever reason - drawing more power than other games are for you.

[ReMeDy]

If this is indeed the case, then you need to try some benchmarking software. Download 3DMark from Steam and run a CPU test, and then run a GPU test. If indeed your rig is drawing extra power to trip your circuit breaker, then this benchmark test should be able to duplicate your issue everytime.

[Dale Kent]

Put your PC on a different electrical circuit (usually the opposite side of the house is enough) in it's own socket, with no power boards or other devices drawing power from the same socket. That will tell you if there's a possible issue with your PSU, or simply too many devices drawing power at the same time on that one circuit.

Otherwise, software can't cause breakers to trip.

[Thunder Bagel]

Great, thanks for the advice everyone!