Hi there 
I'm on a relatively old setup now - but have recently started getting a crash within 5 minutes of starting a game, the fans go crazy, screen goes black and whatever sound was playing at the time gets locked in a loop. Hard reset required.
Fairly sure this is GPU overheating, but I'm not sure why this has started happening suddenly.
My setup:
Intel Core i5 750 (2009)
12gb ram
nvidia GTX 660 (2013)
It first happened in No Man's Sky. This game didn't run great for me, not that I expected it to. But I got a decent amount of play out of it before getting major FPS drops about an hour into a session - restarting my PC usually fixed this. Then randomly, I started getting the crash with the fans going crazy. This happened about 5 times in all, but restarting the game fixed it.
No big deal anyway as I got bored of NMS and have since bought Deus Ex. This worked fine the first time I tried it (got about 2 hours of play), but the second time I played I couldn't get 5 minutes into the game before this exact same crash happened. I tried the NMS solution of restarting the game, but every time I try it now I get the same crash within 5 minutes. I tried dropping the settings, but this didn't help either.
Even more bizarre is that I now get this crash during Rocket League - I have about 300 hours under my belt in this and have not experienced a single crash until now.
Why would my GPU (if the problem lies there) suddenly start to struggle with games it's never had a problem with?
I'm not sure how to diagnose this. Any ideas?
Cheers!
-twombat
I'm on a relatively old setup now - but have recently started getting a crash within 5 minutes of starting a game, the fans go crazy, screen goes black and whatever sound was playing at the time gets locked in a loop. Hard reset required.
Fairly sure this is GPU overheating, but I'm not sure why this has started happening suddenly.
My setup:
Intel Core i5 750 (2009)
12gb ram
nvidia GTX 660 (2013)
It first happened in No Man's Sky. This game didn't run great for me, not that I expected it to. But I got a decent amount of play out of it before getting major FPS drops about an hour into a session - restarting my PC usually fixed this. Then randomly, I started getting the crash with the fans going crazy. This happened about 5 times in all, but restarting the game fixed it.
No big deal anyway as I got bored of NMS and have since bought Deus Ex. This worked fine the first time I tried it (got about 2 hours of play), but the second time I played I couldn't get 5 minutes into the game before this exact same crash happened. I tried the NMS solution of restarting the game, but every time I try it now I get the same crash within 5 minutes. I tried dropping the settings, but this didn't help either.
Even more bizarre is that I now get this crash during Rocket League - I have about 300 hours under my belt in this and have not experienced a single crash until now.
Why would my GPU (if the problem lies there) suddenly start to struggle with games it's never had a problem with?
I'm not sure how to diagnose this. Any ideas?
Cheers!
-twombat
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