Troubleshooting Help:
What is your parts list?
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 7950x
Cooler: Corsair H115i RGB PRO XT
Motherboard: ASRock X670E Taichi
RAM: G.Skill Trident Z5 DDR5-6000 SL C32 DC - 64GB
GPU: XFX SPEEDSTER MERC 310 Radeon RX 7900 XTX
NVMe: Samsung 980 PRO 1 TB
NVMe: WD_BLACK SN750 1TB
NVMe: Corsair MP400 1TB
SSD: SanDisk Ultra 3D 2 TB
SSD: Samsung SATA 870 QVO 4TB
SSD: Samsung SATA 860 QVO 1TB
SSD: Samsung SATA 860 QVO 1TB
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 2TB
PSU: be quiet! Straight Power 11 Platinum 1200W
Case: Corsair 7000D AIRFLOW
OS: Arch Linux
Describe your problem. List any error messages and symptoms. Be descriptive.
My PC shuts down shortly after the Unreal Engine logo when starting Hell Let Loose. I already found out that this doesn’t happen when using a fresh install of the game. It only happens after the second time of starting it. I didn’t change any settings between the first and the second launch of the game.
journalctl doesn’t show any logs related to my issue.
The PC just turns off like someone had pulled it’s power plug. After that, it won’t turn on for some time. Unplugging the power cord for ~2 minutes gets it to turn back on again. Unplugging for ~1 minute doesn’t fix the issue.
Every other game is fine, running CPU and GPU at 100% for extended periods of time is fine. This only happens with Hell Let Loose and only after the second time of launching the game.
My motherboard has two buttons for power and reset, normally those are lit when the PC is turned off. When I trigger my issue, those LED’s aren’t lit.
My temperatures are totally fine, there isn’t much dust built up inside the PC. The whole system is a little over a year old.
List anything you’ve done in attempt to diagnose or fix the problem.
System is up to date, including BIOS, Kernel and all packages. I stress tested CPU and GPU separately and at the same time, my issue didn’t appear.
Alright, that’s all the details I have until now. Does anyone know what could be the cause for this? Thank you very much in advance.
EDIT: Thank you everyone, I’ve decided to replace my PSU. I’ve generally been quite unsatisfied with be quiet! (their fans also kinda suck). I Will report back if that fixes my issue.
EDIT 2: Replacing my PSU fixed my issue. Never buying from be quiet! again.
After some research, it seems like your issue is pretty common, and that this game just seems to do that. Doesn’t really look like there’s a fix, my only suggestions would be to make sure your power supply is beefy enough to handle stress tests outside of the game, and plug your PC into a different wall outlet to see if that helps, but I’m willing to bet this is an issue with the game itself.
From what I’ve found it seems like this game has always been a buggy slow mess on pc and in the past year or so I’ve seen several support posts reporting this exact issue, with no fix :/
A buggy game should never be able to crash a PC and prevent it from turning on. Something’s wrong with OP’s PC, and I’m betting it’s the PSU.
This is nothing, there was a game (demo?) in the 90’s that wiped your entire C drive when uninstalling.
It’s an issue that has cropped up several times when the game’s method of uninstallation is to just delete the entire folder it is on and the user installs it somewhere unexpected. Deltarune did it only five years ago. I would usually be surprised that this caused any major damage, but I was recently helping someone bug fix a mod for a game they were making and only after about twenty minutes did they tell me that their game was a pirated version installed directly in their downloads folder
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Crashing it yes, preventing it from turning on no, I would say OP should def check his psu still, but it sounds like the game is exacerbating existing issues
A PSU tripping an over current polyswitch or thermistor protection circuit will absolutely prevent it from turning on for some time. That is what they do.
Wow, really? I didn’t find many related issues when searching online. Would you mind to link a few threads? Thank you :)
A lot of comments in this thread complaining about performance issues:
https://www.reddit.com/r/HellLetLoose/comments/p958kw/full_guide_for_fixing_the_crashes_and_performance/
Thread that OP updates several times saying he’s found no solution even after several hardware changes and software changes:
https://www.reddit.com/r/HellLetLoose/comments/h00vcd/pc_shuts_off_while_playing_hell_let_loose_not_a/
Another thread about it where people recommend changing the PSU:
https://www.reddit.com/r/HellLetLoose/comments/10vnxrx/hll_causes_computer_to_randomly_shutdown_with_no/
Here’s one where it’s even happening on a PS5:
https://forum.psnprofiles.com/topic/140570-game-turns-my-ps5-off/
Here’s a steam post where the developer gives a big nothing burger response:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/686810/discussions/1/3056240878559181348/