PC Shuts Down on Certain Games

[Flambard]

Hello all, 

 

I have had a lot of help on this but no one can find the problem. 

 

This was from a reddit post i submitted about a month ago: 

"When I load up the battlefield 5 beta and once I start loading into a match it turns of my pc then restarts. I load the game back up and put my settings to minimum and I have no crashes.

Next day I load up dead by daylight which has never crashed on the highest settings for me before and it now crashes once the game has loaded up after about 15 seconds?

I’ve been able to play most if not all games at max settings including games such as arma 3 please see my specs below"

 

My PC crashes everytime on DeadbyDaylight and sometimes on other games. 

 

Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO (Intel Z97) - 4xUSB3/2xUSB2

16 GB Corsair Vengeance 1866 MHz (2x8GB) - Lifetime Warranty (DDR3)

Microsoft Windows 10 Home 64 BIT

Corsair Graphite 780T

NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X - 12 GB - (PCI-E)

2 TB Seagate (2000 GB) SATA-III HDD 7200 RPM 64MB

250GB Samsung 850 EVO SSD SATA-III, Read 540MB/s, Write 520MB/s - Silent

Corsair CX 750W PSU - Low Noise

Corsair Hydro Series H110 (Advanced Liquid Cooling)

16 Colour Remote Controlled Light System - 36 LED Flexlight

250GB Samsung 850 EVO SSD SATA-III, Read 540MB/s, Write 520MB/s - Silent

Intel i7 4790K - (4 x 4.0 GHZ) - Haswell

I’ve also added an additional 1TB SSD

And a ASU’s dual band wireless adapter

Monitor is a BenQ 27inch 144hz 

 

The crashes started when I downloaded the new nvidia graphics driver

 

I posted this here because i was suggested it could be my PSU. 

 

HOWEVER i have conducted FurMark and Prime95 tests which come back fine?

 

Let me know if this should be posted somewhere else 

 

[Edit] Please let me know if you have any preferences for PSU's from the tier 1 list! 

Do you also think i should change my PSU from 750W to higher?

 

[Edit] I have fixed the problem, i had cleaned and re-installed all drivers but that did nothing. I replaced the PSU and it has fixed it, note so self never buy a bad PSU. - PROBLEM SOLVED IT WAS THE PSU (I replaced it) now it works! 

[Dedayog]

I'd wager that your GPU is throwing power spikes that are out of bounds for your PSU's safety parameters.  I had almost the exact same thing. 

 

RMA the GPU, is what I recommend.  Power module is needing replacement.

 

That fixed my issue.

[GER_T4IGA]

Get a new PSU.

also

WHY DID YOU THINK IT WAS A GOOD IDEA TO BUY A TITAN X BUT ONLY A CORSAIR CX UNIT??? That is simply beyond me

[Jihakuz]

It will be something to do with power. 750W should be enough, but only just. Just as jstudrawa said, it might be something spiking outside the limit of your PSU's saftey range.

Benchmarks will provide a stable high load, meaning a high voltage output, where-as in a game there will be higher and lower loads, again meaning lower and higher voltage.

[Flambard]

10 minutes ago, GER_T4IGA said:

Get a new PSU.

also

WHY DID YOU THINK IT WAS A GOOD IDEA TO BUY A TITAN X BUT ONLY A CORSAIR CX UNIT??? That is simply beyond me

I am going to be honest, I was an idiot and this PC i had built 3 years ago and didn't do much research on PSU's and had very little knowledge of PC's it was what was recommended and as a PSU it had worked no problems until recently. 

 

I am currently on the PSU tier list guide so I will be getting a new one from tier 1, do you have any suggestions i was liking the look of the Project 7's. 

[Flambard]

35 minutes ago, jstudrawa said:

I'd wager that your GPU is throwing power spikes that are out of bounds for your PSU's safety parameters.  I had almost the exact same thing. 

 

RMA the GPU, is what I recommend.  Power module is needing replacement.

 

That fixed my issue.

Sounds like it could be this, i ran FurMark to stress test the PC and recorded when it crashed however it shows PSU as being fine do you think that would just be because the software didn't have time to pick anything up before the PC turned of? 

 

GPU would be out of warranty by now as its been around 3-4 years since i initially bought it do you think there anything else i could do?

 

I will 100% be replacing the PSU. 

[Mick Naughty]

Sounds like psu. System wouldn’t shut down for a gpu. 

[Spotty]

1 hour ago, Flambard said:

The crashes started when I downloaded the new nvidia graphics driver

Use DDU to uninstall the drivers and install an older driver version from the Nvidia website.

[Flambard]

1 hour ago, Jihakuz said:

It will be something to do with power. 750W should be enough, but only just. Just as jstudrawa said, it might be something spiking outside the limit of your PSU's saftey range.

Benchmarks will provide a stable high load, meaning a high voltage output, where-as in a game there will be higher and lower loads, again meaning lower and higher voltage.

Do you think i should get a higher wattage PSU, something like 1000? 

 

GPU could be a problems yes and makes sense as the problem started occurring when i installed new graphics drivers. 

[Mick Naughty]

Wouldn’t need a higher wattage psu, just amperage on a single rail. 

[Spotty]

5 minutes ago, Flambard said:

Do you think i should get a higher wattage PSU, something like 1000

No. It's only the one Titan X you have isn't it? The Titan X consumes around the same power the 1080ti uses, around 250w. 750w is more than you need for a 4790k +Titan X. You could power it with a decent 550w and still overclock.

If you're in doubt grab a power meter that plugs in to the outlet that measures how much power is being used.

 

You should try reinstalling drivers before you think about spending any money replacing hardware since you only started experiencing problems after a driver update.