Blackrain69 Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 Check to make sure you have the correct power supply for you're machine... Vid cards are using a fair amount of power these days a decent card will use 400+ watts plus you're pc will need about 200 to 300 watts.. you want a fairly big power supply 760 watts or more depends on how much power you're card or cards use. Restarting pc's are usually a power sup problem or surge issue but i also agree that it could be from overheating of the vid card but that doesn't usually shut you down you may just get a black screen while the pc is still running. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Szoreny Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 (edited) Problem solved !I just installed a Corsair 650w PSU, and now Kombustor doesn't reboots my computer. I launched Skyrim and was able to load my savegame without trouble. It has to be confirmed by some gaming hours, of course, but it looks like it was a PSU power problem.It may also proove something: Skyrim does stress the GPU more than it should in my opinion, even with the lowest settings at the lowest resolution, as I was able to play any other game I tried with the old PSU. I mean 3D games like Assassin's Creed Revelations or Witcher 2 for example.Thanks everybody for your advices :thumbsup: Glad you solved your problem Kerid! As for your initial puzzlement over Skyrim being the only game that caused your reboot issue, I understand - but it's often just one program that stresses your system in some weird way that can reveal a faulty piece of hardware's achilles heel. For instance, I was playing a full suite of new-ish games back in '09 - Stalker, Crysis, Medieval 2, the works. And yet this one game, Freespace 2 with the SCP mods would cause my system to reboot spontaneously. I couldn't believe my hardware was at fault cause certainly my other games were more stressful right? A few months later my PSU fails completely. So modded FS2 was simply stressing the system in a way the other games weren't, despite the fact that it certainly wasn't the most technically sophisticated title in my collection... Edited December 10, 2011 by Szoreny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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