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Gaj
Apr 30, 2006
My computer is doing weird poo poo and rebooting on mouse clicks, or just after 40 minutes of playing low end games like The Long Dark ,Total War Rome 2. These games will crash when clicking on the mouse for any reason, or just fail after 40min.
The computer just clicks, cuts power, and then reboots as if nothing happens. The mouse takes about 20 seconds to get full sensitively afterwards.

But has no problem running Metro Exodus, Horizon Zero Dawn for hours. I can run these games forever, put them in pause mode and walk away, for just let them sit idle. No crashes or reboots.

I suspect this is a usb shock/grounding issue since my mouse is the newest piece of hardware but that doesnt make sense. What do I do to diagnose this problem further?

Windows
CPU: INTEL i5 7600k
RAM: oof 16 gigs DDr something something Corsair
MOBO: ASUS Prime Z270-A
VCARD: Gerforce GTX 1080
an SSD

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Gaj
Apr 30, 2006
SSD clear, drivers cleared, mem test fine.

I have fiddled around with moving the mouse to a new usb socket. The crashing went away for how long its been since I posted this thread. But now all games are crashing after 5 minutes. Its def a weird short and I think Imma just rebuild the system, keeping the vcard until they become non-extinct.


Last post, then I guess mods can lock or let one more piece of advice in. In frustraion I reinstalled the nvidia drivers and changed mouse ports. No more crashes, at least for now.

Gaj fucked around with this message at 16:27 on Aug 26, 2021

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