Game crashes and reboots my PC

[RacketRab]

This seems to happen intermittently, I exit the pause menu, and it just reboots my PC for no reason. No BSOD or anything, just reboots the PC. Anyone else see this and have an idea on how to workaround? I really like this game so don't want to return it

[deidian]

Sudden reboots are often power delivery failures: usually the power supply of the PC not up to the task.

1st check power cables from/to the power supply: ensure they're well plugged. Try playing to see if more reboots happen or it was fixed.

2nd you can try knowing if it's this by making anything that causes the system to draw less power while running the game. Setting a lower GPU power limit is the best option since it's most likely to be the hardware drawing the most power while running Control. Try playing to see if more reboots happen or it was fixed.

[CyFiver]

See if Event Viewer is throwing anything like "Source: Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power" Event ID: 41 situations when you get the reboot scenario. That would be pointing at things like having a PSU problem.

If it's something different then you can even post it all here.

[RacketRab]

I switched to DirectX12 and Fullscreen instead of borderless windowed. I haven't gotten the crash or reboot of the PC since after about 3 hours of playing. Issue resolved I guess?

[4Cat.RPM]

yeah man, i had the same problem, apparently is related with windows, check updating the pc

[Dr mjau]

I see it is an old thread, but i had the same issue. Rebooted my pc. And got event id 41, was so damn scared it was my psu only 1 year old corsair 750w. But watched some forums, and did a sfc /scannow and was corrupt and did some other things, for example put the game in fullscreen. Played last night 2 hours and no reboot, and this night 3 hours no reboot. so i think it is fixed, damn windows 11. My speecs are amd ryzen 7 7800x3d with 5070 ti and 32 gig 6000mhz ram. So last don't belive everything people saying example it is you psu that broken etc etc.

[CapitanPumbo]

Do you have an RTX 50XX GPU?

[RacketRab]

No, it was running on a GTX 1080

[MaZaRo]

I'm having the same problem. The PC restarts on its own, and it must be due to the video card's power supply. I have a Radeon 6700XT and a power supply with a single 8-pin cable, when it needs 16 pins, 8 + 8 of 2 cables.

[RacketRab]

That does not sound good... I'm surprised it can run at all lol

[animal_PLANET]

FYI, games do not restart computers. Only faulting hardware does this. Unless there is an issue with GPU driver which causes a fault. Which has been known to happen.

If thats the case. You should run DDU and install latest display driver or a previous one. Whichever is more stable.

[animal_PLANET]

Originally posted by MaZaRo:

I'm having the same problem. The PC restarts on its own, and it must be due to the video card's power supply. I have a Radeon 6700XT and a power supply with a single 8-pin cable, when it needs 16 pins, 8 + 8 of 2 cables.

Oh boy.