Whole System Crashes.
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Whole System Crashes.
So, I recently bought prison architect, and so far I love the game kinda hooked by it, even after having around 26 whole
system crashes on my computer, this is the first time this has happened to me on any game I've played, now I'm all up to
date on all my system drivers, my whole system is water-cooled including the two AMD Radeon 6990's, the i7-3960X so
I'm pretty damned sure it's not a over heating problem as I run much more high end games on this system as you can imagine
Anyway I tried messing around with the compatibility settings, and tried all of them but after 20 minutes or so of playing I have a
system wide crash that can only be fixed via a hard restart, I've been playing other games since this started happening a week ago
but no luck, I tried a google of the issue and there are no posts regarding it so hoping you guys can help me out.
Specs:
CPU: Intel i7-3960X
GPU: AMD Radeon HD 6990 (x2 crossfire ofc)
RAM: TeamGroup Xtreem LV 32GB DDR3
Operating system: windows 7 64bit
Cooling: (if it matters) two corsair H80's (GPU coolers) and one H100 (CPU)
PSU: Corsair AX1200i
Everything is up to date driver wise and other then that I have no clue what's wrong with the game.
So halp please?
~Vauxie
system crashes on my computer, this is the first time this has happened to me on any game I've played, now I'm all up to
date on all my system drivers, my whole system is water-cooled including the two AMD Radeon 6990's, the i7-3960X so
I'm pretty damned sure it's not a over heating problem as I run much more high end games on this system as you can imagine
Anyway I tried messing around with the compatibility settings, and tried all of them but after 20 minutes or so of playing I have a
system wide crash that can only be fixed via a hard restart, I've been playing other games since this started happening a week ago
but no luck, I tried a google of the issue and there are no posts regarding it so hoping you guys can help me out.
Specs:
CPU: Intel i7-3960X
GPU: AMD Radeon HD 6990 (x2 crossfire ofc)
RAM: TeamGroup Xtreem LV 32GB DDR3
Operating system: windows 7 64bit
Cooling: (if it matters) two corsair H80's (GPU coolers) and one H100 (CPU)
PSU: Corsair AX1200i
Everything is up to date driver wise and other then that I have no clue what's wrong with the game.
So halp please?
~Vauxie
- frenchfrog
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There is definitively something going on with your computer. A program in itself normally cannot crash Windows. It needs the help of faulty drivers, hardware (ex: bad memory), corrupted windows files, etc.
Drivers is where I would look first but you said your drivers are up to date, video driver is the prime suspect.
Next I would disable crossfire if it's not already for Prison Architect.
Then I would check for GPU temperature.
You could also try to run Prison Architect windowed (check for the preferences.txt file).
Drivers is where I would look first but you said your drivers are up to date, video driver is the prime suspect.
Next I would disable crossfire if it's not already for Prison Architect.
Then I would check for GPU temperature.
You could also try to run Prison Architect windowed (check for the preferences.txt file).
- frenchfrog
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EDIT:
GPU-Z have a option to log GPU temperature.
I've just tried it and it works fine.
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Some video card display the temperature in the control panel.
Else I've used HWMonitor from the same guys as CPU-Z.
However, these 2 methods don't logs the temperature, they simply display it ... I agree that logging them would be useful.
Worse case alt-tab from time to time, or check the temperature just after reboot.
GPU-Z have a option to log GPU temperature.
I've just tried it and it works fine.
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Some video card display the temperature in the control panel.
Else I've used HWMonitor from the same guys as CPU-Z.
However, these 2 methods don't logs the temperature, they simply display it ... I agree that logging them would be useful.
Worse case alt-tab from time to time, or check the temperature just after reboot.
My two GPU's rarely go over 40C they idle at 20C and hang around 30C's while gaming also I have a program that closes all surface processes once the GPU temps go over 70C so I really do doubt there is a problem regarding temperature.
Also my fans will stay on after my computer shuts down if it over heats, my computer has only overheated once when I kept the heating on all night and had the fans on low. And again, this is the first time this has happened on any game I've ever played, and It's ONLY Prison architect so I'm not disabling crossfire.
Also my fans will stay on after my computer shuts down if it over heats, my computer has only overheated once when I kept the heating on all night and had the fans on low. And again, this is the first time this has happened on any game I've ever played, and It's ONLY Prison architect so I'm not disabling crossfire.
- City Builder
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HWMonitor will record lowest, current and highest temps reached. So when you exit the game you should be able to see if the temps went abnormally high. If your fortunate enough to have a second monitor you can of course put the hwmonitor program on the 2ND monitor and just keep an eye on it over there while playing the game.
- frenchfrog
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First, the game crashing after 1 hour is normal in these alpha builds, the game leaks memory and end up using all memory available to the process and then crash.
There is a problem if your SYSTEM crash, else close this issue.
If it does, have you check the CPU temp?
But again, this game use OpenGL in opposition to the vast majority of other games. This is the reason I asked if you could disable Crossfire only for this game, run it windowed or update your drivers from the manufacturer web site...
There is a problem if your SYSTEM crash, else close this issue.
If it does, have you check the CPU temp?
But again, this game use OpenGL in opposition to the vast majority of other games. This is the reason I asked if you could disable Crossfire only for this game, run it windowed or update your drivers from the manufacturer web site...
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