Crashing games

linkheroz · 7 Apr 2015 at 12:46

My games are crashing when I play them. Some more than other, main one is Cities: Skylines. It will show the desktop, but keep playing the music and running the game. I can still pause and save it etc.

I think it maybe GPU related but I'm not sure. The temperature rises on Skylines but it doesn't always crash at the same temp. All the fans inside my rig are working.

My GPU is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

Can anyone help?

linkheroz · 7 Apr 2015 at 18:27

Honestly, I don't know too much about PCs, learning as I go along. Bought this custom built from a friend and I don't know if it's overclocked or not.

PSU is XFX PRO750w
i5-4590 3.3. GHz

The Pc basically minimizes the game but I keep the mouse Icon from the game, all the sounds are still there and it's still running. I.E. I can still save and pause it.

Last I tried the GPU got to 67 degrees before dropping out.

I'll try those programs.

linkheroz · 7 Apr 2015 at 20:12

ace-rimmer said:
i wonder why he sold it

Because he bought a gaming laptop.

linkheroz · 7 Apr 2015 at 20:18

modo77 said:
Download Prime95 http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/prime95.html
and also Coretemp http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/
Start core temp and keep an eye on the values.
Close everything else and run prime, select blend and let it run, this will test the cpu and mem for issues. Longer you run the better, just keep an eye on the temps and if it gets too high stop prime.

If you get errors on Prime then something is up (maybe overclocked too high, have the wrong vales set in the BIOS etc)

Also worth doing the same thing with the GPU (not at the same time)
Download Furmark http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/
Set the resolution to 1080 (or whatever you run at) and select full screen, Run the burn-in test. Again watch the temps and kill if it gets too high.
On Furmark you need to look for artifacts

I've run all of those and not seen any issues. It could be the game itself. But it's odd that it ran fine on all the highest settings on the day I bought it but now crashes on the lowest.

linkheroz · 7 Apr 2015 at 22:44

modo77 said:
Did you run Prime for a while? Longer the better since it can take a while to show a warning or error.

Is it just skylines or are other games crashing as well?

Left it for a good hour. The other games used to do it, but after I updates all my graphics drivers they seemed to stop.

linkheroz · 8 Apr 2015 at 12:52

modo77 said:
Ok that's normally long enough to show things (although it can sometimes take several hours before an error pops up).

Its a bit odd that its just skylines crashing, do you have any other unity engine games? I've seen that a few people have issues with any games that uses unity and they crash to desktop.

Have you checked the CPU temp when it crashes?

Also is it only happening in a city that you've been playing for a while (i.e. a large city with lots of things)? If you start a new small city will it still crash?

It can do it on a small one I've just started. I'll look for another unity game. Although they've done an update for it today and it seems to be a little more stable.

EDIT: last crash, CPU 52 and GPU 71

linkheroz · 8 Apr 2015 at 17:30

It appears it was as simple as disconnecting my second screen.

linkheroz · 9 Apr 2015 at 21:22

modo77 said:
heh

I stand corrected. Having it working last night, since turning it off then back on this morning it's started again.

My friend, who built it has had a look, GPU is fine, CPU is fine, it's not overclocked but we changed the power lead and it's better. Could it be the PSU?

linkheroz · 9 Apr 2015 at 23:05

Keyboards'Fear said:
Weird question, pointless question anyway as I don't think you'd answer it truthfully if it was yes, but (I will give it a go) have you pirated the game/s?

All genuine copies. I don't want to buy one and get locked out of Steam/Origin.

At the moment, all seems to be working. Updated GeForce Experience and all is well at the moment (touch wood).