windows 8.1 and games

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Like the power dies? As if you just yanked the cable? Or does the system initiate a standard shutdown sequence?

Video card crashing maybe? Your karma for using windows 8 imo

On December 26 2013 22:09 NewbSaibot wrote: Like the power dies? As if you just yanked the cable?

this

On December 27 2013 00:00 nerdonpoker wrote: Video card crashing maybe? Your karma for using windows 8 imo

it doesnt even blue screen, it just goes down fml

Sounds power supply related, possibly as a result of full system load. Either that or CPU overheating, but most motherboards will tell you the next time you boot up that it was shutdown for this reason. Try downloading SuperPI and run the most difficult pi calc it has to put your cpu under 100% load. It should crank all day like this. If it powers down instantly or within 15 minutes or so, cpu is overheating. If it runs stable for like 30-60 minutes, it could be CPU/GPU combo related. A total system load that your power supply can no longer keep up with. See if one of your games as a GPU benchmarking feature.

On December 27 2013 02:03 NewbSaibot wrote: Sounds power supply related, possibly as a result of full system load. Either that or CPU overheating, but most motherboards will tell you the next time you boot up that it was shutdown for this reason. Try downloading SuperPI and run the most difficult pi calc it has to put your cpu under 100% load. It should crank all day like this. If it powers down instantly or within 15 minutes or so, cpu is overheating. If it runs stable for like 30-60 minutes, it could be CPU/GPU combo related. A total system load that your power supply can no longer keep up with. See if one of your games as a GPU benchmarking feature.

thanks for your reply, i ll download that but tbh i didnt have this issue with windows 7 2 weeks ago, it only shutdowns when i open those games, all drivers are updated, gonna check what u said and then post results here

I just updated to windows 8.1 today and had many weird lag issues with games that were solved with manually downloading the driver files and installing them one by one (gpu drivers, wireless adapter drivers, etc)

unfortunately it doesnt lag, game runs smooth and then suddenly computer shuts down, not a driver issue...might be my power supply, but ive found threads where people with new comps are havin the same issue.

It could be BSOD (blue screen of death) related. I dont have Win 8 so I'm not exactly sure how it handles crashes like that, but on every previous version of windows, if a BSOD occurred the system would usually snap restart and the user wouldnt even know it was a BSOD. You had to actually go and disable the "auto-restart upon crash" setting so you could fricken see the problem. Does your system reboot? Or just turn off?

On December 27 2013 14:31 NewbSaibot wrote: It could be BSOD (blue screen of death) related. I dont have Win 8 so I'm not exactly sure how it handles crashes like that, but on every previous version of windows, if a BSOD occurred the system would usually snap restart and the user wouldnt even know it was a BSOD. You had to actually go and disable the "auto-restart upon crash" setting so you could fricken see the problem. Does your system reboot? Or just turn off?

i was at least expectin the BSOD to see the error code but nope it just turns off.

Off the top of my head, I'd say GPU issue. Probably overheating. But it didn't do this with windows 7 so..

Sounds like overheating like others said, could be driver-related if it didn't happen on Windows 7. You could try opening Event Viewer, just type View Event Logs into the Windows 8 tile start-up screen, the crash should be there as critical.

Windows 8 blue screen looks like this: http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/getfile/15448/