computer keeps restarting after gaming sessions

[BlessedSquirrel]

Xcom has been running fine. Tested/played a few other games that had also caused issues and so far no crash after exit. So, so far, so good. Startup seems much smoother.

Barely anything is installed, only the graphics driver and steam.

One thing I have found interesting is the GPU fan hasn't been going like crazy during gaming (everything tested so far is "relatively" old). Is it possible that something else was putting the GPU under additional stress when I was playing GPU intensive games? And then when the game released the GPU resource it overloaded itself causeing a restart (Pure speculation, I have no idea about these things)?

Thanks for the assistance. I will slowly load back all my programs (its going to take at least a week if not more... ), and will leave final report in due course.

When you've got a blanket installation done and configured the way you want it, may be worth taking a backup RAW image of the system so you can revert to it if you need (if it takes you that long to setup from scratch).

 

[Martinr36]

Xcom has been running fine. Tested/played a few other games that had also caused issues and so far no crash after exit. So, so far, so good. Startup seems much smoother.

Barely anything is installed, only the graphics driver and steam.

One thing I have found interesting is the GPU fan hasn't been going like crazy during gaming (everything tested so far is "relatively" old). Is it possible that something else was putting the GPU under additional stress when I was playing GPU intensive games? And then when the game released the GPU resource it overloaded itself causeing a restart (Pure speculation, I have no idea about these things)?

Thanks for the assistance. I will slowly load back all my programs (its going to take at least a week if not more... ), and will leave final report in due course.

Yea take it steady putting stuff back on, just to see if anything causes it to start your problem again

 

[MartianPotatoSoup]

😭 Had my first crash.

No dump file in windows dir.

The only things I have installed this week are a bunch of games and the prism driver.

The interesting thing about the reinstall is that games that had previously set the GPU fan going were not. And then I install Valheim, and off they go again every few minutes. And then after exit system rebooted.

So I guess I now need to start pulling out RAM?

 

[ubuysa]

[emoji24] Had my first crash.

No dump file in windows dir.

The only things I have installed this week are a bunch of games and the prism driver.

The interesting thing about the reinstall is that games that had previously set the GPU fan going were not. And then I install Valheim, and off they go again every few minutes. And then after exit system rebooted.

So I guess I now need to start pulling out RAM?

I analysed a dump for you earlier that was down to a Prism driver. That and your recent crash point at Prism as your problem I would suggest.

 

[MartianPotatoSoup]

With the driver uninstalled the problem persist.
Spoke to tech support too - looks like gpu.

It happens when the gpu has been pushed, and the fan goes like the pc is about to take off. And GPU is being pushed by games that shouldnt be pushing it as well.