GP4-fan Wrote:
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> bazil83 Schreef:
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> > I had the exact same problem and my first
> > suspicion that it was the power supply, was
> > correct. On the machine I play GP4, I have an
> > E6400 C2D with an 8800GTS card powered with a
> 600w
> > EZ Cool PSU which was hardly a cheap unit (paid
> > about £60 for it, I think). Anyway, further
> > investigation revealed that, as usual with
> budget
> > PSUs, 600w was its "peak" rating; 80-90% of the
> > time it was running just over half that!
> >
> > Long story short, I bought a Corsair 450w from
> > Ebay (after the other PSU eventually went
> *bang*
> > (literally)) and it's perfect... So check your
> > PSU is up to the job and check the 12v rail(s)
> -
> > need at least 36A (or at least 20A on each
> rail)
> > if you're running a good GFX card.
>
>
> I reinstalled the game, that should do it for you
>
Fair play. But for me, it was doing it not only in GP4, but when I was doing high intensity rendering in Photoshop etc. So it wasn't just GP4. Also, the PSU going bang actually meant I *had* to buy a new one anyway