PC shuts down and immediately restarts

[chief117]

@jpd Was Right

Upgraded the Corsair 750W bronze to a MSI MAG A850GL 850W 80 Plus Gold No shutdowns in any game including victoria 3!

Thanks for the support!

 

[jpd]

I'm glad your problems are over

 

[Mexikornio]

I'm not sure I've solved the issue, but for now it's gone. So I started getting really hot GPU and random PC crashes on Baldurs Gate 3 and some other games as well. So I tried out a couple of things. I switched some of my displays around, and now it's fixed. Previously on my other display the game would cause the GPU to overheat and go very audibly laud until eventuall crash, but now it's silent as a kitten even on max graphics. Which leads me to believe, perhaps my display was broken and drawing too much power? Everything else being equal, all settings everywhere accounted for, one of the display consistently failed and the other didn't.

So I'm not sure that's useful to know, but here you go. Make of that what you will.

 

[AndrewT]

Does that problem display get AC power from the wall? If so it can't be drawing power from the PSU.

What you describe sounds like excessive refresh rates. Possibly the problem monitor allowed up to, say, 240hz whereas the other one only 60hz.

 

[Mexikornio]

And my game crashed again. New monitor that has worked flawlessly so far, no crashes on BG3, the gpu doesn't audibly heat up at all while playing vic3, 60hz refresh rate, but it crashed anyways. I have no idea wtf is going on at this point.

I even set up my PC again from scratch recently on an unrelated note

 

[Notme1]

And my game crashed again. New monitor that has worked flawlessly so far, no crashes on BG3, the gpu doesn't audibly heat up at all while playing vic3, 60hz refresh rate, but it crashed anyways. I have no idea wtf is going on at this point.

I even set up my PC again from scratch recently on an unrelated note

Intel1 12 - 14 are very crash prone.

Victoria 3 | 12th/13th/14th Generation Intel Processors

Hello all! An update, 12th and 13th Generation Intel Processors are related to a Crash to Desktop (CTD) happening frequently, this is related to architecture changes by Intel and specifically E-cores. We are working with Intel to address these...

forum.paradoxplaza.com

 

[Mexikornio]

Sorry, I should have been more precise in my language. It's not my game that crashed. It's my PC that shut down and immediately restarted. Not even a blue screen.

 

[Notme1]

Sounds like some of your hardware is dying then

 

[AndrewT]

You very likely have the CPU/bios hardware issue discussed here:

Victoria 3 | 12th/13th/14th Generation Intel Processors

Hello all! An update, 12th and 13th Generation Intel Processors are related to a Crash to Desktop (CTD) happening frequently, this is related to architecture changes by Intel and specifically E-cores. We are working with Intel to address these...

forum.paradoxplaza.com

FIRST please check with Hyrican for an updated bios. Then please implement the “Intel Baseline Profile” option in it, if present.

If that's not there or doesn't help, please go through the above post in detail.

Hopefully those steps will help you as they have others. Good luck!

 

[Mexikornio]

Sounds like some of your hardware is dying then

Well shit, I sure hope not. The PC is still relatively new.

You very likely have the CPU/bios hardware issue discussed here:

Victoria 3 | 12th/13th/14th Generation Intel Processors

Hello all! An update, 12th and 13th Generation Intel Processors are related to a Crash to Desktop (CTD) happening frequently, this is related to architecture changes by Intel and specifically E-cores. We are working with Intel to address these...

forum.paradoxplaza.com

FIRST please check with Hyrican for an updated bios. Then please implement the “Intel Baseline Profile” option in it, if present.

If that's not there or doesn't help, please go through the above post in detail.

Hopefully those steps will help you as they have others. Good luck!

Will do. Thanks

 

[jackh99]

Old thread but did anyone find a fix for this? Trying to play Sphere of Influence but I'm returning to this issue!

 

[AndrewT]

Old thread but did anyone find a fix for this? Trying to play Sphere of Influence but I'm returning to this issue!

Right click on victoria3.exe , properties, compatibility. Tick "disable fullScreen optimisations" untick every other box in that dialog, Apply and exit.
Then in the launcher Game Settings menu, select fullScreen display mode, Vsync off, cap refresh rate at 60.


If those don't help:
DXDIAG is a program you run from the Windows search box on the task bar. After running it will open a window and start collecting info with a progress bar in the lower-left corner. When it completes click the 'save all information' button and save it to a file then attach that file here.

Please attach here your Documents/Paradox Interactive/Victoria3/pdx_settings.json .
From your Documents/Paradox Interactive/Victoria3/logs/ folder, attach here system.log , error.log , exceptions.txt