Psu Power Surge Issue Since Last Patch

[AirBladeChris]

Like i was saying in this topic:
https://forums.warframe.com/index.php?/topic/555269-psu-power-surge-issue-since-last-patch/

Okay, this is a wierd one...

 

Since yesterday night, my PC randomly kills the power during the Halloween mission in Warframe. I had a warning message in the startup that ASUS Power Surge assistant registered a power surge from the PSU and shut off.

 

I researched and contacted the ASUS website, they didn't know either. And they suggested turning this feature off in the BIOS, so i did.
That seemed like it resolved it, i was able to continue thru the first part.
But when i went for the Stratos emblem, it shut off the power again, this time with the motherboard shutoff for damage prevention.

 

I tried to recreate this problem with other games, did not work at all, not even resource heavy stuff like GTA V or ArmA3 or DayZ.
I did no OS patch since a week before and it was allright all the time... and no, i did not touch the hardware at all.

 

Only on Warframe...

Ideas, anyone?

 

My specs

 

CPU: Intel i7 6700 (not overclocked)

Motherboard: ASUS Z170-P
RAM: 16Gig DDR4

GPU: GTX 780ti
PSU: beQiet Straightpower 730W
game is installed on SSD

 

[Tali]

Why do you repost it when you already have one active?

[AirBladeChris]

to have it in the right section... i posted in feedback, then thought it belongs to bugs

[[DE]Linkski]

to have it in the right section... i posted in feedback, then thought it belongs to bugs

 

A couple of comments in that thread suggested you limit your FPS. Have you tried this yet? I'd even go as low as 60FPS just to experiment. 

[AirBladeChris]

will try with 120 first

[Chaya_Sar]

I get the same problem when playing WF and no other game. And we have completely different rigs. Haven't played since it happend last week. Will also try fps limit when i get home.

Also look at the internals of your PSU to see if any coils are dark or even black.

Edited November 2, 2015 by Ronon.Dex

[AirBladeChris]

I get the same problem when playing WF and no other game. And we have completely different rigs. Haven't played since it happend last week. Will also try fps limit when i get home.

Also look at the internals of your PSU to see if any coils are dark or even black.

the PSU is fine... as i said, other (even more resource heavy) games dont do that

 

other thing is, i cant try anymore, it did that only in the tactical alert

[Dr_Watson]

I don't have the problem, but a friend has the exact same issue. He can play and leave Metal Gear V on for 15 hours a day with no issues, but he has Warframe on for 5 minutes and his computer shuts down with the same power surge issue.

[cx-dave]

Just because your PSU shuts down in Warframe and not in other games doesn't prove much. Relative light 3D loads with very high frame rates, typically cause the GPU to draw a lot of current. 

 

It could be that your GPU is drawing too much current on a combined power rail. If possible connect the GPU to PCIe connectors from a different rail that doesn't feed any other heavy current drawing components.

 

However, it's also possible that your PSU shutdown is triggered by the current cap of any given rail. In that case you'll need to upgrade...unlikely though. A 780Ti shouldn't be pulling more than 30A.

 

If all else fails and provided no other system setting is triggering a "soft" shutdown, then you can start thinking in the direction of a defective or overheating  PSU.

[Liquid262]

I'm having the same damn problem and this just started a few weeks ago.  I actually started to think it might be my PSU then I remembered the last two times the problem was supposed to be my comp and not DE; yeah it was DE.