PC turning off

[BKPiazza]

Has happened a few times to me as well...i monitor my temps on a second screen so def not the issue. My psu is also fine because I play much more demanding games without incident...it probably has something to do with a driver conflict.

[JaellaArwana]

Solution to your problem can be found here if you use windows 7: Here

[animapain]

Has happened a few times to me as well...i monitor my temps on a second screen so def not the issue. My psu is also fine because I play much more demanding games without incident...it probably has something to do with a driver conflict.

I hope so,but until I can find out for sure just what that error is and then how to fix it,I can not play the game.I don't want to run the risk of causing problems due to the power cutting off.

[ninesunz]

Okay,so I found this, it's the only error on there at around the time it happened:
Event filter with query "SELECT * FROM __InstanceModificationEvent WITHIN 60 WHERE TargetInstance ISA "Win32_Processor" AND TargetInstance.LoadPercentage > 99" could not be reactivated in namespace "//./root/CIMV2" because of error 0x80041003. Events cannot be delivered through this filter until the problem is corrected.

No clue what that means,so if someone could translate it for me I'd be very grateful

Looks like you have a WMI permissions issue.
MS has a fix (win7) http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9775756
run the fixit to correct the WMI permissions - this should resolve your log error.
for safety i'd recommend doing a chkdsk/f on your drive followed by a sfc /scannow to repair and filesystem corruption

then try running ffxiv again to see if it crashes

[animapain]

Took some temps after 30 mins of play and here are the results of that.
Edit:

As you can see everything is running very cool ( I have great cooling on my rig ) I am once again heading in the PSU direction,even though it only happens when I've played FF, it's worth investigating. Only problem is,how on earth do I investigate it? lol

Edit: you can't really see it properly but the CPU temp is 39c and GPU temp is 58c

[Thaddeus]

Computer turning off is a good sign your PSU is starting to fail.

A good benchmark for it is if it happens more with graphically intense games, it means the PSU can no longer support the required power the videocard is demanding. Eventually it will start turning off even on your desktop and idleing.

[animapain]

Computer turning off is a good sign your PSU is starting to fail.

A good benchmark for it is if it happens more with graphically intense games, it means the PSU can no longer support the required power the videocard is demanding. Eventually it will start turning off even on your desktop and idleing.

What I don't understand though is this PSU is barely 2 years old and I'm not a big PC gamer so it has rarely been tested with high end gaming,so it's basically failed on its own. The only other game I've really played is WoW, which is hardly pushing my hardware.

[Stryker]

I've had this happen to my old computer, basically fried everything. I had this same problem, and basically what it was, was a combination of a failing PSU and the power draw of my PC was more than the PSU could consistently handle. The new PC I built, I made sure that my PSU was a lot more than I needed.

Is your computer shutting down 100% or shutting down and rebooting?

[animapain]

I've had this happen to my old computer, basically fried everything. I had this same problem, and basically what it was, was a combination of a failing PSU and the power draw of my PC was more than the PSU could consistently handle. The new PC I built, I made sure that my PSU was a lot more than I needed.

Is your computer shutting down 100% or shutting down and rebooting?

It shuts down completely, however it's very random.Not only that, if this was a PSU problem,wouldn't the shut downs occur everytime it comes under high load? the reason I ask is because I can play for 8 hours and have no issues as I did yesterday,but today I played for 2 hours and it shut down,very strange. It did the same in open beta, it shut down twice after just 15 minutes of play,but after that I played for the next 6 hours with no issues.I really don't understand it!!

[fhero]

Like others suggested is that if your PC just shutdown while playing a game it is either your PSU failing or rather it might not be big enough to run your system. What is the minimum requirement of watts your video card requires? Also you have to add in the rest of the system of how much power it also adds to the final wattage used by the PC in whole. Meaning do you have a seperate sound card, keyboard, cd-rom/blue ray drives running, etc.

Try turning down your video card settings or if its an AMD leave it on stock settings and do not use AMD overdrive or the NVIDIA equivalent of that software.