koleq wrote on 2022-05-11, 04:58:It's not a issue in s single games but two games so far:
Polda 2 (it has only a Windows release) - after playing for a while in […]
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It's not a issue in s single games but two games so far:
Polda 2 (it has only a Windows release) - after playing for a while in one dialog the PC froze, Ctrl+Alt+Del did not thing at the point I had to shutdown the whole PC.
and the second game is called Fairy Tale about Father Frost, Ivan and Nastya (also Windows only) - this game runs really slowly on my machine and when I lauched it once and walked away from the computer when I came back the game was frozen in the same way as Polda 2, Ctrl+Alt+Del gave me no reaction and I just had to shut down the PC.
But other game for example MDK I had no issues.
I was wondering if the two games that crashed are just too demanding on the system, but it shouldn't just crash right?
Could you upload some pics of all the insides to here?
Do these games always crash at the exact same moments or is it somewhat randomized?
I have had a system where I got some stability issues with my DX4-100 at some point and I suspected overheating to the CPU heatsink (it was one of those nice-looking large anodized heatsinks without a fan). After prolonged usage the heatsink became almost too hot to touch. I can't remember what exact issues I had though as it's been like >10 years or more since I troubleshooted that particular problem with it.
Another rig did have very similar crashing of an Athlon XP rig of mine (sudden hard crash with the last bit of sound continuously looping) and this was solved by replacing the stock heatsink with an Arctic Cooler Copper Silent 3.
It wasn't even that the stock HSF was so bad. The problems only started once dust had started accumulating between the heatsink fins and the CPU HSF fan (the HSF had a highly dense fin-array), reducing airflow. Adding a case fan helped the insides keep a bit extra cool on top of what the new HSF could do.
With this Athlon XP I could definitively solve this crashing problem by preventing the CPU from overheating.
I however do agree with namrok that if the game keeps crashing consistently at the exact same moment, it's probably the game and not per se a hardware problem.
Lastly, given its age, it might be possible the issue is with the PSU.
But if your rig is perfectly stable concerning the rest of its usage, I would personally not be too worried about it and perhaps simply try those games on a different rig for at least the duration of these crash problems.