Frequent post-patch crashes/reboots from game

[Russkly]

Originally Posted by Retaliator

Got random reboots too. does not seem to be related to the gpu temperature as last time i went up to 69 ° but crushed at 63°. Could be the case that we're are all NVIDIA users? Me 580GTX latest beta drivers 2.70. will try to revert back to 2.66 drivers.

Could be NVidia cards (or their ForceWare drivers), but then I'd expect many more people to be posting on this thread, since random rebooting's a pretty severe problem.

Maybe it's a PSU issue, because something fairly serious must be happening for the PC to decide it absolutely has to shut down to protect itself.

The "Kernel Power Error 41" I'm getting points to this as well, I think.

What PSUs do we all have?

Mine's not a front-line make but is 720W, so should be (and always has been thus far) robust enough to cope with the demands of my system and the games it runs at high settings (Rise of Flight, Arma 2, Combat Mission Shock Force, etc.).

Interestingly the PSU is rated to 40A @ 5V but only 15A or 17A @12V (depending on DC1 or DC2), whereas the spec. for my GPU (and indeed for the GTX580) states that the PSU should generate 40A on the 12V rail.

I know nothing about electrics, but could that be a possible issue?

R