The PC may stop working unexpectedly or experience random crashes during the game.
The PC may stop working unexpectedly or experience random crashes during the game.
I recently assembled a new PC, with only a few components being the PSU and SSD. The excitement around Starfield began when I received the game for free through my AMD purchases. I spent roughly 16 hours playing, and then suddenly the system restarted without any BSOD or errors. All peripherals and monitors turned off, and it rebooted cleanly. I continued playing for a few more hours, and it repeated the same behavior. It was a very hot and humid day—around 90 degrees Fahrenheit—so I considered that environmental factor might be involved.
This morning I restarted the PC and launched Starfield; about ten minutes in, the game crashed but returned to the desktop. I tried Hogwarts Legacy next, which also shut down completely. Cyberpunk followed, reverting to a full shutdown. I ordered a new PSU last night, suspecting a power issue. What are everyone’s opinions?
System details and temperatures:
- Ryzen 7 7700x (70-80°C)
- Corsair H100i Elite Capellix (240 AIO)
- MSI Pro B650 P WiFi
- 32GB g.skill Flare x5
- Powercolor Red Dragon 6800XT (~60°C)
- 2TB 970 Evo Plus
- Corsair HX850i (used PSU, unknown performance)
- Corsair 4000D Airflow RGB (6 fans total)
- Monitor setup: 27" 1440P and 24" 1080p
- Keyboard: GMMK Pro
- Headphones: Razer Viper Ultimate
- Audio: Razer RGB headphone stand
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Think about adding all your periphs if you believe it's a power problem, since I see it could be. The specs so far, without storage or anything else, already surpass 800 Watts of Req PSU, but don't quote me on that—I always prioritize power first before anything else. It might help to think about this in light of those RTX-enhanced games; if you're using Ray-Tracing, it could lead to this situation. Keep testing at different quality settings and see what works, because this happened to me too—just a simple PSU change fixed it lol. Food for thought.
I just made some changes to my post in the build. I’m hoping the PSU is the only problem and that the 1000W can handle everything. If not, I might have to take it to a repair shop—I’m in college and don’t have time for lots of troubleshooting. Also, I checked the event viewer with everything else off, but it crashed again.
Certainly and based on this understanding... 912 Watts means that 1000 Watts should manage it quite easily, not to mention the seatings will keep the power well-cooled. Also, think about cleaning the system periodically, perhaps once a month or so... enjoy the rest of your semester now lol
When using the previous SSD, did you perform a complete fresh installation of Windows? Experiencing crashes to the desktop rather than a full black screen and reboot is usually more related to software issues than hardware faults, and often stems from an old OS being installed into a new system. Only after resolving software and temperature concerns—such as overheating—I consider the power supply unit. That PSU was quite good, but since it was used, I tend to downgrade it because it’s hard to determine its condition or if it had developing issues.
No, I reinstalled windows and formatted both of my drives. I actually did it again a few hours ago; Starfield was working well until about 30 minutes ago when the PC shut down once more. I’m now reinstalling Cyberpunk to test how it behaves there.
Hi There. I faced similar problems where games would crash to the desktop, caused by CPU boosting frequencies to high and leading to RAM issues. A forum member provided a solution that you might find useful—it requires minimal setup time. You can check it out here: https://forums. Or here: https://forums. It could be worth trying.