PC turns off during attempts to install COD, Fortnite, or Apex Legends.
PC turns off during attempts to install COD, Fortnite, or Apex Legends.
All gaming happens via Steam, actually. The help pages mostly focus on Blizzard titles or similar games. We can't even access splash screens or loading pages. When I press PLAY in Steam or from the desktop link, a warning pops up saying the game didn’t close properly—options like Safe Mode, Normal, or Ignore appear. Then the computer restarts quickly before we can decide which button to press.
It could be a problem with anticheat detecting a background application and blocking the game. Sometimes they mistakenly identify programs like Msi Afterburner or Razer Synapse as cheats, preventing the game from launching.
Programming mistakes may lead to system failures. Additionally, the problem began with Apex, suggesting Anticheat might be at fault.
okay so one more update. when I said it was the hard drive - that was my assumption. I built two PCs with the same mobo, cpu, and gpu. I had 64gb of ram, he had 16. I had 500gb m.2 ssd, he had 1tb. My kid couldn't play a ton of games on his computer b/c they would crash it. So I had him install the COD game on MY shop computer and it worked fine. Oh! Must be the ssd, I thought. NO. Put in a new Samsung ssd from bestbuy this morning - god that thing was SO much faster - I didn't expect that - but still, the games they crash the PC. So fuck. He's upset. I'm upset. Let's just move the hard drives around and see if it's the mobos. Bam. Worked like a charm. Why? What the hell? What is the problem here? Definitely hardware. Something busted or messed up, but not messed up enough that it won't work with most other stuff. Hrm....