PC restarts while playing ARK

[leftwing42]

I recently upgraded my PC to the point of building a new one. I've been trying to play ARK, as it's the most demanding game I had played in the past, and I'm able to run it on ultra settings with ~60fps. The only issue is after around 20 minutes or so my pc will restart. When it happened at first, it had a pop up screen saying ASUS surge protection had kicked in, but I did some research where people suggested disabling it and that it wasn't all that needed. However I'm still getting restarts, no splash screen this time. I tried lowering the settings in the game, but the restarts still happen.

I've been monitoring my temps while I play, and they get a little high but still within the ranges I've seen for these parts. My CPU usually hovers around between 60-70 C and my GPU between 70-80C.

My rig consists of:
EVGA nvidia GTX 1080
intel i7 6700k
Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO cooler
ASUS Z170-A motherboard
G.SKILL ripjaws V series 16 gb ram
PSU - Rosewill HIVE 650w

I didn't replace my psu when I got my new pc, because I was under the impression 650w would be plenty.

The only thing left I can think of is not enough power or my PSU is dying. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks, Kevin

 

[RaDiKaL_]

ARK is so buggy sadly, first try verifying your local game files via steam, some patches ago several ppl had the same issue, it was a corrupted patch causing their system to crash/restart.

If that doesn't fix it, try monitoring your CPU/GPU/PSU usage while gaming with HWMonitor Pro with its log feature, this way we'll be able to see exactly what happens the last seconds before it crashes.