PC always turns itself off, only when playing certain part of Hitman: Absolution (no spoilers)
13 minutes ago, Litargirio said:Here is a very strange issue that I have been having for well over two months. Basically, my PC outright turns itself off when I try to play (the beginning of) Part 3: Countdown of Hitman: Absolution. I can however play any other part of the same game without issues, and I also play all the other games that exist with no issues whatsoever, yet when I start Part 3: Countdown of this game, after walking around the roof for a bit, the PC shuts off less than a minute into the game.
Though I was almost able to beat this part of the game once without issues, it was only after I died and had to restart that the problems started. Anyway...
Troubleshooting done so far:
Temperatures - no issues. Stresstested both CPU and GPU, both peak at around 70 degrees celsius, but stay below 60 while playing the game. Though I even bought a motherboard mic and set the BIOS to make it beep if the temperature gets too high, but nothing.
Hardware health - PC is about a year and a bit old, and I actually have tested all the parts, even ran memtest86 on the ram. I have had no issues with it so far.
Software - Drivers are up to date, reinstalled these as well as the game itself. Also put the game on the boot SSD, which made no difference.
Event log - Blank, no entries between the time i start up the game and the time It boots itself back up.
Other than that, the way the shutdown behaves is almost as if you went behind the power supply and switched it off, no error messages or strange behaviours before the shutdown, just a sudden and immediate loss of power. Almost, because the PC does boot back up automatically a few seconds later.
Specs: 4790K, R9 290, 16GB of RAM, a Gigabyte Z97MX-Gaming 5 mobo, 256GB Crucial MX 100 and a 1TB WD caviar blue that the game is installed on.
Also, game is downloaded from Steam.
Any other troubleshooting ideas?
Couple things you can try:
An earlier version of the driver.
Reverting the GPU / CPU to stock settings if you're OCing them.
Looking for the same issue with just one stick of RAM.
If you disabled your pagefile, re-enable it.
Those are all I can think of. It's definitely fucking weird that it shuts down like that instead of hanging. Check for a prank
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