Question Computer restarts after playing Valorant for around 5 minutes ?

Jun 2, 2025
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Specs.
B450 Aorus Pro-WiFi CF
RTX 2070 Super
Ryzen 5 3600 6-core
600W Gold EVGA
on SSD
32GG RAM

Whenever I try to play Valorant, my entire PC restarts, and my event viewer says there was a critical error (I have put a pic of the error).
It only does it for Val and no other games, even League, which uses the same launcher client. I changed the video settings, my gpu Drivers are up to date, even if I just sat on the main menu it still restarts my computer. I have no idea what is causing the issue. I also forgot to mention, I also tried disabling my firewall.

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Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

B450 aorus pro-wifi cf
What BIOS version are you on for your motherboard?

600W Gold EVGA
EVGA is the brand of the unit while 600W is the advertised wattage of the unit. What is the model of the PSU and it's age?

System reboots when they're taxed happens for two reasons;
1| an overheating issue
2| your PSU is incapable of delivering power when taxed

Might want to use HWinfo to monitor your temps. You forgot to mention how you're cooling the processor and make and model of your CPU cooler.

Moved thread from PC Gaming section to Systems section.
 
I would try to get a crash in a more controlled manner so you at least have a clue.

I would start with memtest64+. I would use the one that boots from USB it test a bit better than the one in windows.

Next while also running hwinfo run a cpu stress testing program. Cinnebench tends to be the one that is commonly used. You are in a way hoping that it crashes but you also hope to see something in hwinfo just before. Most modern cpu will prevent themselves from overheating but if it is sudden they can just turn off to protect themselves.

If both the memory and CPU do not crash when tested you then get into the messy video card senerios. Not sure if there is a single go to GPU test software since there are so many differnet type of processors on a video card. This could also explain why only certain games crash. You have said you tried the latest video drivers. Have you tried older ones. Nvidia like many companies lately have put out unstable drivers.