PC shutdown

[Dagi]

While playing the game, the PC randomly shutdowns and requires PSU reset to restart again. Monitored the GPU power, CPU and Temp, all normal. Only occurs on Valheim. Latest drivers, and I even limited the game fps to 60. WIN10 RTX3080 850w PSU.

Anyone having this problem?
Have you found a fix?

[JDaremo Fireheart]

Sounds like an overheat issue and not a game issue.
I have a potato compared to that GPU and I have never had a shut down.

[Jᴧgᴧ]

An 850W PSU with a RTX 3080? Nah uh - sounds like something's underpowered, or you don't have two separate rails giving power to the GPU (only one can cause serious issues). Or quite possibly, you aren't running a Gold or Silver certified PSU. They can sustain peak near their W rating, but they can't do that for long. Typically they are between 75% and 85%, and only go to 90% of that if Gold rated.

Might also want to do some stress tests. Prime95 is decent for the CPU, whatever graphic benchmark you want for the GPU (3DMark has some stress tests). I generally run both at the same time since Prime95 is Below Normal priority, and it simulates heavy gameplay having both at the same time.

A hardware shutdown is a symptom of a few things: PSU not powerful enough / on it's way out, unstable overclock, or heat running way too high which you've monitored. But it's not related to Windows or the game, it's definitely the rig itself. I'd look up the power requirements on your CPU and video card, and start to do the math. Even with a 2080ti I'd throw at least a 1K Watt PSU at it, no less. Personal preference based on experience.

[RaNdOmKiLs666]

Check GPU and CPU temps in MSI Afterburner, it sounds like one of these are overheating and forcing a shutdown to prevent damage.

If you are in fact overheating, open Nvidia Control Panel and set an FPS cap for Valheim, try 60fps as this will reduce how hard the GPU and CPU will run thus reducing temps. This is a good bandaid until you can fix your cooling problem properly.

Could also be a crappy/gone-bad PSU, make sure you're using at least a bronze rated PSU from a good brand, although ideally you'd want a Gold rated PSU for that card.

Lastly if anything is overclocked, disable that as that will help reduce temps and increase stability.

[Sugam]

PSU do ware out and the more its performing at peak voltage the faster it dies out. As mentioned above, I do the same. I buy a 1k PSU, plat. Sure they are more pricey but the one I have now has been good for 6 years and the one before I gave to my nephew to build his first PC and that still is running to this day which is about 8 years I think.

[Gorbush Creepgood]

Check the Bugs and Crashes subforum. Happens to loads of people. Devs recognized it and are working on it.

[Dagi]

Thanks for the replies. As I mentioned before, all the power levels and temp is fine, there is no indications of overheating nor nothing else. The PSU shutdown is totally random 10 mins to 3 hours of game play and only occurs on Valheim. PSU is Gold standard. Monitoring the afterburner while game play there is nothing really that indicated to this result. We go steady power and about 50c temp, clocks look good. I even under clocked the card and limited the game to 60fps. I found that some of the other players have a similar problems with the game.

I'm pretty sure this is not a PSU problem, If it would be the I would have this problem while rendering with CUDA or while playing DCS. as those times the GPU and CPU %s go rooftops 99-100% for hours. This is most likely something that the Valheim does, but nothing on logs.

[Weaver]

Originally posted by Dagi:

While playing the game, the PC randomly shutdowns and requires PSU reset to restart again. Monitored the GPU power, CPU and Temp, all normal. Only occurs on Valheim. Latest drivers, and I even limited the game fps to 60. WIN10 RTX3080 850w PSU.

Anyone having this problem?
Have you found a fix?

You almost certainly have a bad rtx 3080. My first one went potato in a couple days. It was first only with Death Stranding then it started happening with other higher end games.
Thankfully prebuilt (Alienware) and so under warranty. Once the card was replaced everything has been flawless.
There are a lot of bad RTX3080 cards out there.

[Tekk]

There can be many reasons for that behaviour, I actually had it happen today while playing Fallout 1, found it was the result of an OC i thought was stable, but when i was hit with this particular load (which wasn't high, just different) i my PC instantly shut off.

So yeah, may be your CPU, PSU, RAM (maybe GPU, but they usually crash different), could even be your Motherboard.

Just to make certain it is understood; Just because a PC doesn't use too much power or have too high temps, does not mean it is stable; clocks and voltages can both be too high or too low, and a PSU may say xxx Watts, but that doesn't mean it can actually deliver that amount of wattage on any one rail.

Could also be your GPU ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ computers are weird man.

I have played the game on a 1660Ti, R9 280X and HD 5870, haven't experienced crashing in any way so far.

[Jᴧgᴧ]

Originally posted by Dagi:

Thanks for the replies. As I mentioned before, all the power levels and temp is fine, there is no indications of overheating nor nothing else. The PSU shutdown is totally random 10 mins to 3 hours of game play and only occurs on Valheim. PSU is Gold standard. Monitoring the afterburner while game play there is nothing really that indicated to this result. We go steady power and about 50c temp, clocks look good. I even under clocked the card and limited the game to 60fps. I found that some of the other players have a similar problems with the game.

I'm pretty sure this is not a PSU problem, If it would be the I would have this problem while rendering with CUDA or while playing DCS. as those times the GPU and CPU %s go rooftops 99-100% for hours. This is most likely something that the Valheim does, but nothing on logs.

An app running in secured space under Windows 10 is *never* going to be able to crash the system without a BSOD. A hard reboot just isn't possible there.

The fact you have to do a PSU reset points firmly in that direction. Even if it's rated high enough, it might be having "issues'. Best to pick one up locally, test with it, then if it still does it simply return the PSU.

[Dagi]

If it would be the PSU it would do this on other apps too, like adobe premiere and Vegas. CUDA rendering takes my CPU/GPU usage to the roof and I usually have extra hardware running, cameras to hard drives, If I render 4k 60 one hour clip it takes LONG time. Never had issues. I also have no issues on other games. The problem is around Valheim. I just wondered if anyone on STEAM forum had the same issue and was able to fix it. I respectfully throw this here: I have been building these machines for a while and I know my hardware, and I don't want to turn this thread to a argument of how basic "♥♥♥♥" works. As mentioned this is a issue with multiple users on the bug forums too, I just copied it here, as I have the same one. I think I just need to wait a fix from the devs. But thanks for the replies.

[JDaremo Fireheart]

If you do a google search for "RTX 3080 Random Shutdown", you'll see entries going back more than 6 months. You probably lost the Silicon Lottery and got a bum card or your PSU just isn't strong enough for the card. 850w isn't much for todays GPUs and other peripherals.
As for the Devs fixing it for your card, I wouldn't hold your breath. Games are made to the specs of the Average PC being used, and yours is above the average. Considering that the average person can't even dream of a 30 series card or 4k graphics.

[vanbushi]

Originally posted by RaNdOmKiLs666:

Check GPU and CPU temps in MSI Afterburner, it sounds like one of these are overheating and forcing a shutdown to prevent damage.

If you are in fact overheating, open Nvidia Control Panel and set an FPS cap for Valheim, try 60fps as this will reduce how hard the GPU and CPU will run thus reducing temps. This is a good bandaid until you can fix your cooling problem properly.

Could also be a crappy/gone-bad PSU, make sure you're using at least a bronze rated PSU from a good brand, although ideally you'd want a Gold rated PSU for that card.

Lastly if anything is overclocked, disable that as that will help reduce temps and increase stability.

You can go ahead and mark this as your answer.

[DO IT]

STOP don't worry, its not your system its the game. Check the bugs section of the discussion, you are not the only one having this issue.

[Malfor]

yea its the game causing it like someone said above the devs know and are working on it just gotta wait its happening to a friend of mine hes been able to keep it from happening as much by doing the vulkan option so far anyway

[Tekk]

Originally posted by DO IT:

STOP don't worry, its not your system its the game. Check the bugs section of the discussion, you are not the only one having this issue.

That is horrible advice.