Bay 12 Games Forum

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  

Author Topic: Computer problems  (Read 565 times)

bluephoenix

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Computer problems
« on: July 18, 2011, 06:43:14 pm »
Hi,
I'm having a (not so) little problem.
When I play resource intensive games my computer just shuts down as if someone just ripped out the power cable.
When I just browse the web or work on text documents I can keep the computer running for hours and it never has shut down.

In World of Tanks it happens once every two days where as in Flight simulator X it happens after 10 minutes of playing.
Can anyone help me find the cause for this? A friend of mine thinks it might be the RAM but I think something might be wrong with the PCs power supply.
I really don't have the money to replace either.

Here are my computers specs in case anyone wants to know.
Windows 7 32bits
4GB ram
512 mb graphics card
3.2GHz dual core AMD processor.
Logged

Tellemurius

  • Bay Watcher
  • Positively insane Tech Thaumaturgist
    • View Profile
Re: Computer problems
« Reply #1 on: July 18, 2011, 06:44:36 pm »
possibly the graphics card is overheating.
Logged

bluephoenix

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Computer problems
« Reply #2 on: July 18, 2011, 07:11:14 pm »
That might be another possibililty, I will check it next time I play FSX.
Logged