Random shut down when playing FSX

Fatback

Fatback

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Well today was the first time I have tried to play flight simulator since I got my new 4850 and PSU. I open the game start a mission and about 2mins in it freezes up and a blue screen comes up with a bunch of writing. I was not able to read much before my computer restarted the first line said something like graphics unite needs restarting then I looked at the bottom and it said dumping system file and it stop at 95 and restarted. So once my computer came back up I tried to play again and the same thing happened. What do you think it could be my GPU or PSU I think it is my PSU no supplying enough power to my GPU once a load is put on it. Because when I watch movies or play less graphics intense games this doesn't happen. I'm thinking I should try a stress test of some sort and see if this only happens when a big load is put on the card or if my PSU can not handle it. What do you think I should do.
 
Your PSU will either power it completely or fail and blow. if it was not supplying enough power then nothing would turn on and the PSU would overload...
If you have another HDD or Partition, install a fresh copy of windows and install all the necessary drivers and the game, then see what happens. and post the result here
 
linkin93 said:
Your PSU will either power it completely or fail and blow. if it was not supplying enough power then nothing would turn on and the PSU would overload...
If you have another HDD or Partition, install a fresh copy of windows and install all the necessary drivers and the game, then see what happens. and post the result here
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No it doesn't necessarily work like that when a graphics card is under load it requires more power that's why I believe it is the PSU because it only happens when I put the card under load. Also I just installed a fresh copy of vista about 2 months ago so that is not the problem.
 
I think I fixed the problem seems it wasn't a hardware issue at all but a driver issue went to AMD and downloaded the latest drive and played for about an hour and no blue screen I hope that was it any way I would hate to have to go threw that again.
 
Hope its fixed, it could have been a corrupted driver causing the bluescreen.
But it may well have been CCC's "reset graphics adapter driver" function, that is, if the GPU stops responding CCC will unload and reload the graphics driver, usually stopping the need to restart.
 
linkin93 said:
Hope its fixed, it could have been a corrupted driver causing the bluescreen.
But it may well have been CCC's "reset graphics adapter driver" function, that is, if the GPU stops responding CCC will unload and reload the graphics driver, usually stopping the need to restart.
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Lets hope it is fixed I was about to pull an extra PSU out I had laying around and try it with just my GPU and see if that would work hopefully I won't have to.
 
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