Windows Causing Forced Restarts

[267549_1454182207]

So for a while, when playing newer games, my computer would crash to a black screen then restart. What is strange is that this issue never happened before on the same games that have the crashes. Mad Max and Dishonored 2 never experienced such crashes till about March of this year and they slowly became more frequent. Going from maybe once a week to almost every session. It seems to happen at short spikes like exiting a pause menu or a lot of sudden particles, but sometimes it can vary. Trying to find out if any hardware was damaged, I ran a few Aida64 test. The CPU, and memory was running fine and didn't have any high temperatures. Then when I tested the GPU it revealed that apparently Windows set some sort of GPU limit and was causing the restarts. Aida64 raised the limit and it helped a bit, but I still get the restarts. I need help if any of you know how to disable this or if it is a different issue.

 

My System:

CPU A8-6600K

GPU Radeon RX 480 Driver

RAM 8GB DDR3

OS Windows 10 Creators Update

PSU 600w Bronze

 

Games that have had crashes:

Dishonored 2

Mad Max

Quake: Champions

Prey (2016)

[MaxBunny]

29 minutes ago, 267549_1454182207 said:

Then when I tested the GPU it revealed that apparently Windows set some sort of GPU limit and was causing the restarts. Aida64 raised the limit and it helped a bit, but I still get the restarts. I need help if any of you know how to disable this or if it is a different issue.

What type of errors are you getting when it shuts down? Black or blue screen?

[PorkishPig]

28 minutes ago, 267549_1454182207 said:

So for a while, when playing newer games, my computer would crash to a black screen then restart. What is strange is that this issue never happened before on the same games that have the crashes. Mad Max and Dishonored 2 never experienced such crashes till about March of this year and they slowly became more frequent. Going from maybe once a week to almost every session. It seems to happen at short spikes like exiting a pause menu or a lot of sudden particles, but sometimes it can vary. Trying to find out if any hardware was damaged, I ran a few Aida64 test. The CPU, and memory was running fine and didn't have any high temperatures. Then when I tested the GPU it revealed that apparently Windows set some sort of GPU limit and was causing the restarts. Aida64 raised the limit and it helped a bit, but I still get the restarts. I need help if any of you know how to disable this or if it is a different issue.

 

My System:

CPU A8-6600K

GPU Radeon RX 480 Driver

RAM 8GB DDR3

OS Windows 10 Creators Update

PSU 600w Bronze

 

Games that have had crashes:

Dishonored 2

Mad Max

Quake: Champions

Prey (2016)

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Your A8-6600K will put some serious limitations on your RX 480 due to severe bottlenecking and therefore lag.

 

I would suggest that you check Reliability Monitor to see if it's reporting any information during your freezes/crashes. You can search Reliability Monitor on your start menu to access this application. It should look something like what you see below.

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It is not the CPU though as it has happened on games that are quite optimised and get a constant 60 FPS. As I said before that none of my games had this issue before march. Aida64 also specifically warned about it potentially causing the same crashes I have experienced due to set limits.