Question When playing a certain game pc starts going wild

[RayBan341]

hello everyone, this has never happened to me and i dont know the cause... so basically whenever i play this game called ark either its offline mode or online mode i play for like 5-10 minutes and then the pc turns off and goes full crazy mode like i have no idea why the fans just go crazy loud and screen has no signal, is this because of overheating? when i got the pc new it could run the game without any problems on 60fps-75fps on medium/high settings (right now im using everything on low but anti-aliasing on epic) my pc specs are
gpu: EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB SSC GAMING ACX 3.0
cpu: Intel Core i5-6500 3.20ghz turbo 3.70ghz ( bottleneck i know :/ )
ram: 16gb (4x samsung 2400mhz rams)
psu: Zalman Acrux 1000W Platinum

 

[Ralston18]

Where did you get Ark?

Look in Reliability History/Monitor and Event Viewer.

Either one or both tools may be capturing some error codes, warnings, or even informational events just before or at the time the PC goes "full crazy".

 

[Frag Maniac]

Run the game with the free tool MSI Afterburner set to show CPU and GPU temps and usage onscreen, as well as frametime.

There's hardly any bottleneck in that build though, and it should be plenty good enough to run the game at max settings. IF you have a decent CPU cooler (which you did not mention), the only thing that would be causing any heat issues is the PC being clogged with dust and/or the case having very poor ventilation, or ambient (room) temps being extremely high (many parts of the US are triple digit temps right now).

That said, you also need to exercise common sense with drive space and have at least 15% of it's actual space free, and if installed on a HDD, keep it defragged.

An SFC scan can detect and fix corrupt system files, but it won't permanently fix them if something on your PC is causing them. So it's a good idea to disable any startups one at a time to see if one might be the culprit.

 

[RayBan341]

So updating drivers on my gpu fixed everything.... although i do need to free up space on the computer

 

[RayBan341]

started happening again :/

 

[Frag Maniac]

So updating drivers on my gpu fixed everything.... although i do need to free up space on the computer

What percentage of free space is showing in This PC on the drive's space occupied bar, and does that bar ever turn red? If so, yeah, the drive hass too much data on it. Anything less than 15% free space can cause problems.

 

[RayBan341]

What percentage of free space is showing in This PC on the drive's space occupied bar, and does that bar ever turn red? If so, yeah, the drive hass too much data on it. Anything less than 15% free space can cause problems.

well its blue i have 52.2GB free out of 476GB and now it starts happening whenever i watch youtube or just any time now

 

[Frag Maniac]

well its blue i have 52.2GB free out of 476GB and now it starts happening whenever i watch youtube or just any time now

You need at least 72 GB of free space on a drive that size, and even that barely meets the 15% free space recommendation.