PC restarts when starting Last Epoch

[Lightfooted]

This has never happened before. I've played almost 50 hrs with no issues and now I cant start the game anymore without it continuously rebooting my PC every time I try.

I installed the newest graphic drivers, verified the integrity of the game, checked temps, fiddled and turned off programs that might conflict, and it leads to the same result. I cannot find the cause and I've tested other games, which are fine. Is this a bug with the latest patch?

[oldschooldiablo]

Originally posted by Lightfooted:

This has never happened before. I've played almost 50 hrs with no issues and now I cant start the game anymore without it continuously rebooting my PC every time I try.

I installed the newest graphic drivers, verified the integrity of the game, checked temps, fiddled and turned off programs that might conflict, and it leads to the same result. I cannot find the cause and I've tested other games, which are fine. Is this a bug with the latest patch?

It's a bug in ur system lol.

But seriously if ur pc is rebooting from a game. That's a clear sign it's an issue with ur rig.

Other games may run fine. Doesn't mean another game won't start to show signs of a fault in ur rig

Games cannot cause this.

What are ur system specs? Are over clocked perhaps under clocked.

[Zarious101]

What parts are in your computer? Can you also check windows event viewer and see if you get any critical errors? Sounds like there's something in your system that needs fixing.

Usually your PC restarting is related to the power supply. Did you recently upgrade your GPU for example? If so it might need more juice and a new PSU might be needed.

If you post some logs from windows event viewer and some info on your system such as

Operating system?
CPU?
GPU?
How much RAM and how many sticks of RAM?

Don't really need your motherboard or drive info.

Oh and also what kind of power supply do you have and how old is it?

Example: I have a 850W Corsair power supply ( 80 plus gold rating )

Logs from windows event viewer might help narrow down what's happening.

[Rico Shou]

Power Supply, Drivers, and maybe a thermal bottleneck.

Start with the easiest first (Software)

1.) Drivers and OS then move to checking if something is overheating or not getting enough power when you start up a game. Mobo, Bios, Chipset, GPU, audio, and network are all good ones to update.

When you start a game monitor your CPU and GPU temps. If your hitting a breakpoint your device maybe shutting itself down or gpu is crashing. If you notice something is getting to hot like the CPU, then reapply thermal paste. If its the GPU make sure all your fans are running on the card and in the case. If the case has sufficient airflow but the gpu is still overheating check thermal paste and reapply on the card. if your using a AIO water cooler and its been more than 5 years replace the whole system. AIO's pumps and resovour should be replaced prior to a thermal event. Over time the fluid will evaporate. Also note to mount the radiator above the block, dont want air bubbles getted trapped at a higher point over the gpu or cpu.

Do you see any blue screens? stop codes? Errors?

Note the exact time of crashes and use event viewer like Zarious said so check the logs and see what event caused the crash.

If your power supply is adequate wattage and power bottleneck isn't an issue and its still shutting down buy yourself a power supply testor and check it out. Cheaper than replacing psu just to see if it failed.

Lastly some steam games conflict with random running apps. Ive seen some weird conflicts, so try closing anything that isnt necessary during your controlled testing.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Lightfooted:

PC restarts when starting Last Epoch
This has never happened before. I've played almost 50 hrs with no issues and now I cant start the game anymore without it continuously rebooting my PC every time I try.

I installed the newest graphic drivers, verified the integrity of the game, checked temps, fiddled and turned off programs that might conflict, and it leads to the same result. I cannot find the cause and I've tested other games, which are fine. Is this a bug with the latest patch?

Nope. The issue is on your side. I doubt you checked the things properly. If it worked before, it will still work now. Especially if hardware did not change.

[Froy]

I don't think this is a system issue because I'm experiencing it too in the last version of the game.

[Aldroen]

Are you running intel 14th Gen ? There has been a lot of news how the intel mobos are pushing the CPUs to hard causing instability. This can get worse with time as the silicon and other parts degrade causing this to get worse. If this is the case for you update your bios and look up some guides on how to downclock your cpu to stock settings per intel.

[oldschooldiablo]

Originally posted by Abinyante:

I don't think this is a system issue because I'm experiencing it too in the last version of the game.

Nope

Games can't cause ur PC to reboot.

This is on ur end it's not the game

[★REM★]

rebooting while gaming is 90% of time temperatures issue and 10% of time a tons of other sources.
Most likely it's the first issue so i have to ask, is it time for you to repaste?

[Slaver Vardok]

def the game. only happens when i play online. temps are at 49 degrees lol. power supply is fine

[Lightfooted]

Originally posted by Oil Baron Daniel Plainview:

def the game. only happens when i play online. temps are at 49 degrees lol. power supply is fine

I wasn't expecting this thread to pop back up. I ignored it because everyone is so quick to jump to hardware when I knew that wasn't the case. More demanding games never did what Last Epoch was doing. The only thing that was probable was maybe the PSU on its way out. It's still unusual for ONE game. Before I did waste money on an unnecessary purchase, It was the graphics.ini file being corrupt. Deleted it and it started working flawlessly again.

So, YES, software CAN mess with your PC. Anyone that says otherwise are fooling themselves. Hardware and software go hand in hand. Stop blindly defending your favorite games.

[Lightfooted]

Originally posted by WanderingJarlPuncher:

Originally posted by Lightfooted:

This has never happened before. I've played almost 50 hrs with no issues and now I cant start the game anymore without it continuously rebooting my PC every time I try.

I installed the newest graphic drivers, verified the integrity of the game, checked temps, fiddled and turned off programs that might conflict, and it leads to the same result. I cannot find the cause and I've tested other games, which are fine. Is this a bug with the latest patch?

i5 13600k, RTX 4070, 32GB DDR5, and Corsair HX1000i.

For single player games, I tested Cyberpunk 2077 and Dead Space Remake. For more resource heavy games, I tried Palworld, Ark and reluctantly reinstalled D4. I was even playing Helldivers 2 for a long time before Last Epoch acted up. All max settings. No issues. Temps were fine. But like I said in one of the later comments, I got it to work by deleting the graphics.ini

All those weeks of troubleshooting and worry over 1 file.