When i run dying light my computer restarts

[zavtvz]

Recently i got dying light (Great game) and it was great i was playing it (at low settings cos of my low end pc build) but it was fine.Then what tarted happening like every 20 minutes my pc would restart with no blue screen or anything.This started to happen sooner and sooner together
and now i cant even play for 1 minute.
This does not happen to me on other games.

I decided to look in the windows view events log and found the kernel 41 error.
So i went to a local computer shop and asked what was happening and the guy said my graphics card was drawing too much power and converting it to heat.

I want into msi afterburner and changed my fan speeds up a bit and blew the dust off my graphics card
and still my pc restarts the moment i render anything in dying light.I can navigate to the menu and start a game in dying light ,but when i join in the game it restarts.

please will you help me.

Kind regards Thomas

 

[JayCee993]

Hi Tom,
This is due to Overheating, a restart without a blue screen is 80% of the time your CPU which is overheating, if it was your graphics card turning to lava while playing it would normally give you a Blue Screen.
Take your heatsink off your CPU, clean the old paste off as if it hasn't been serviced in a while Im guessing the paste is going to be rock solid also as its an older machine as explained above. Re apply some thermal compound and re seat your heatsink.
Post back with any results,

Jason

 

[sizzling]

I disagree. Please list your full system spec including make and model of the PSU, that error is far more likely a dying PSU which is failing under continued load. An overheating CPU should throttle well before it shuts down the whole system.

 

[zavtvz]

My power supply is a corsair cx500 my gpu is a msi gtx 650 ti my ram is corsair 43gb and crucial ram 4gb my motherboard is a msi fm2-a75ma-e35 matx motherboard my cpu is an amd a8 6600k apu (i dont use the apu's graphics thanks for the support
Thomas

 

[sizzling]

Hmm in theory a 500w is way more than you need but the CX range of PSU's are poor quality and are known for failing. If it was me Id swop the PSU.

 

[JayCee993]

Did the computer store that you went to not hook the PSU up to a tester? first thing i would have done, see if you can take it back and get them to test it if its local. Will either get a red or green light, Good and Bad. Will save replacing it and the issue still persists but of course it could be the problem

Jason

 

[Uaon]

I tend to agree with JayCee993 it sounds like your system may be overheating,likely the cpu not gpu however.Check your temps while in game with software like HWmonitor.Have you checked your error logs in event viewer?My money is on overheating most likely,That power is more than adequate for that system.