PoE makes my PC reboot - trying to find the source

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MrVamp wrote:

Just want to mention that I experience the exact same problems. I've made a thread that seems to have died out, but I figured I'd bump this one.

Noticed I could play for almost an entire day yesterday (in windowed + dx11 specifically) but now I can't move in areas for more than 5 minutes without similar reboots again.

I can also play any other game without a problem.

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I think you'll want to create a new thread with your informations (Dx, moments of reboot and steps taken to isolate the issue maybe) and link it here for posterity.

Also, my computer isn't rebooting every 5min, but on occasions (i'd say 0 to 3 times a day). And notably, it seems to be upon encountering a loading screen or very shortly after (<1sec).

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Asunaki_Tabi wrote:

this kind of reboot is usually hardware faillure or low level software like drivers doing crazy stuff. i had a faulty gpu which could play poe and other perfectly stable max settings, but almost insta die and crash my pc in the witcher 3 at the point that it completely died after some attempt to keep playin that game.

i would start by removing the gpu from the system and use intel HD to test how stable is the game with integrated graphics. you will have to lower graphics settings, resolution, etc to get a decent frame rate, its worth the trouble.
if you see too much struggle you can try the launch option -gc 2 , or even -gc 1 .

another thing i would test is the cpu spikes. another story here. i had a pc that could run any game perfectly but insta crash everytime at the fortnite's loading screen after u click a game mode from the main menu( after the recent season update ). pc could run prime95 and other stuff super stable.
finally found the issue, it was the 6th core of a 6 core ryzen cpu. the 6th core was faulty, if u disabled it the game run perfectly. ofc this kind of crash wasnt a complete system reboot, only the app. mainly because most of the cpu was ok.

so, to test the cpu i would try something like reducing the % of cpu poe can use, either by removing some core ( cpu affinity from task manager ), or by limiting poe using 3rd party software ( like BES battle encoder shirase ).

worst case scenario its something wrong with the motherboard, i have another story here XD its way too long but TLDR is stuff like mosfet and gpu power rails on the pcie can easily cause hard reboots on very specific workloads