Question PC Crashes but only older games

Wilzer1

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Sep 6, 2014
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Hello,

I am running into a quite frankly bizarre issue where my PC will hard crash, but only on certain games. The game freezes and my speakers make a loud buzzing noise and then the PC reboots. I do not get a chance to see any sort of BSOD and I am not sure how I would find any kind of log for that.

The games in question are Witcher: Enhanced Edition, Fallout 1 and Fallout 2.

I do not have any issues playing other games; for example , Witcher 3 works flawlessly at top settings and I can play indefinitely without issues. Every other game I have tried on this PC seems to work; it is just these three that I have issues with.

I have tried running these programs in compatibility modes, patching the .exe to be 4GB and running the games with a borderless window program but nothing has worked.

My system is generally working well, and I do not notice any abnormally high temperatures with my CPU or GPU while gaming. The CPU is air-cooled and does reach up to 77 degrees.

Any sort of help with this would be amazing!

System Specs:
Asus Strix 980ti (No OC)
Ryzen 3 1200 (No OC)
2x8GB Corsair Vengeance DDR4 RAM
Corsair RM650w PSU
Dell 07PR60 Motherboard
2x Western Digital Blue 1TB HDD