Computer crashes with certain games

[Slothio]

Specs: 

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600
• GPU: Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB
• MOBO: MSI B450M Gaming Plus mATX
• RAM: 16GB Silicon Power XPOWER
• SSD: (Boot Drive) A few year old 150ish-gb Samsung SSD
• HDDs: 1TB WD, 2TB Seagate 
• PSU: 550w older psu (5 years~) 

 

• OS Name    Microsoft Windows 10 Pro
• Version    10.0.18362 Build 18362
• BIOS Version: 7B87v1B (I believe this is it)

 

Issue:

 

Sometimes when I boot certain games my system crashes. No blue screen or anything like that. The lights in my computer remain on and the fans remain on as well as they start spinning faster than usual. I originally thought it was a PSU overheat issue of some sort when I was playing Rust and Ark, but I could continue over to RDR2 with 0 crashing and as you probably know, RDR2 is way more intense on your system than Rust. Today things changed, I launched Fortnite and Minecraft at the same time and it did the same crash. The PSU was not hot at all so I think it's safe to write that off. My computer has been saying "Scanning and repairing drive (C:)..." as of a week or 2 ago, after these crashes started happening. I don't have any crashdumps to give or bsod codes to give because there is none, it just straight up crashes. 

 

Another note: With a game like the new CoD it will crash a little after an hour of playtime 

 

Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!

 

[Radium_Angel]

6 minutes ago, Slothio said:

my computer remain on and the fans remain on as well as they start spinning faster than usual

How do you recover from this, or do the games just crash back to the desktop?

[Slothio]

Just now, Radium_Angel said:

How do you recover from this, or do the games just crash back to the desktop?

OS reboots. So I either wait for it to start the reboot itself or I turn it off manually and reboot. 

[Radium_Angel]

Just now, Slothio said:

OS reboots. So I either wait for it to start the reboot itself or I turn it off manually and reboot. 

Sounds like the power supply can't provide enough power to the system under loads. Look in your Event Viewer under System, and see if there are any red X's there, post a screenshot (or describe here) the error(s) if any.

[Slothio]

Just now, Radium_Angel said:

Sounds like the power supply can't provide enough power to the system under loads. Look in your Event Viewer under System, and see if there are any red X's there, post a screenshot (or describe here) the error(s) if any.

 

It goes on longer but it's the same thing

[Radium_Angel]

2 minutes ago, Slothio said:

t goes on longer but it's the same thing

Yeah, time to try a new power supply.

[Slothio]

2 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

Yeah, time to try a new power supply.

Aw man

 

I see some people on google saying it could be a driver issue. Is that just BS or could updating possible out of date drivers help? 

[Radium_Angel]

Just now, Slothio said:

Aw man

 

I see some people on google saying it could be a driver issue. Is that just BS or could updating possible out of date drivers help? 

Well, it's certainly worth a try, tho there have to be some pretty bad drivers to cause a system restart like that.

Still, couldn't hurt. Update all drivers and BIOS, see what happens...

[Slothio]

43 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

Well, it's certainly worth a try, tho there have to be some pretty bad drivers to cause a system restart like that.

Still, couldn't hurt. Update all drivers and BIOS, see what happens...

I might be speaking soon but, I tried running the fortnite minecraft combo and I didn't crash after updating audio drivers(Some people said audio drives especially can cause this and I have an interface and stuff so the drivers are weird).  I also ran Rust with minecraft running in the background and didn't get any crashes after about 15 min of running around (Usually crashed when I loaded in before). Even turned up the rust settings to the max so it would put pressure on the computer. Hopefully your guidance helped! Thanks

[Radium_Angel]

4 minutes ago, Slothio said:

Hopefully your guidance helped! Thanks

Fantastic, fingers crossed!

[Slothio]

On 4/24/2020 at 10:54 AM, Radium_Angel said:

Fantastic, fingers crossed!

Bad update, PSU blew up. Saw/heard a pop, followed by smoke. My computer was still running so I manually shut it off. Hopefully it didn't kill everything else

[Radium_Angel]

6 hours ago, Slothio said:

Bad update, PSU blew up. Saw/heard a pop, followed by smoke. My computer was still running so I manually shut it off. Hopefully it didn't kill everything else

Yikes, well, let us know when you put in a new PSU how all the other parts are.

[Slothio]

On 4/28/2020 at 4:48 AM, Radium_Angel said:

Yikes, well, let us know when you put in a new PSU how all the other parts are.

Update, and hopefully the last. All parts are alive and the new PSU is in! I'll consider myself lucky because it was a shitty and old PSU with no protection of any kind

 

New PSU is the RM650x. 

[Radium_Angel]

17 minutes ago, Slothio said:

Update, and hopefully the last. All parts are alive and the new PSU is in! I'll consider myself lucky because it was a shitty and old PSU with no protection of any kind

 

New PSU is the RM650x. 

Fingers crossed, good luck!