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Hi All, Just really looking for some advice - I've been playing DayZ Standalone for around 30 hours now - highest settings in game with no major issues. Over the last few days within around 5-10 minutes of loading, My PC just turns itself off completely. No errors, just a complete system shutdown (as if I held the power button down to force a shutdown.) Having played around a little bit with the settings, it now only seems to run in 'normal' settings.. which so far seems pretty stable - upping it to 'high' and within a minute or two... instant shutdown. Just wondered if anyone else was seeing the same kind of thing happening (so I can tie it down to maybe one of the newer patches (!?) In order to try and sort this, I've removed any overclocking, Got the all clear on virus / malware, made sure all drivers up to date and even tried swapping out the PSU in case this was on the blink. But not having any joy whatsoever. Whats strange is that all my other games still run fine (i.e BF4) - and not seeing any overheating issues either (temp averages around 50) when dayz is up and running. The PC should be more than powerful enough to run Dayz with no issues so I'm hoping its just something alpha related.. but any thoughts would be appreciated! Happy to post any more info if requested. Cheers! Posting my system specs for info: Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.130828-1532) Language: English (Regional Setting: English)System Manufacturer: System manufacturer System Model: System Product Name BIOS: BIOS Date: 05/19/10 14:35:06 Ver: 08.00.15 Processor: AMD Phenom II X6 1055T Processor (6 CPUs), ~2.8GHz Memory: 12288MB RAMAvailable OS Memory: 12286MB RAM Page File: 3146MB used, 21424MB available Windows Dir: C:\Windows DirectX Version: DirectX 11DX Setup Parameters: Not found User DPI Setting: Using System DPI System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent) DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled DxDiag Version: 6.01.7601.17514 32bit Unicode ---------------Display Devices--------------- Card name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti BOOST Manufacturer: NVIDIA Chip type: GeForce GTX 650 Ti BOOST DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_11C2&SUBSYS_28751462&REV_A1 Display Memory: 4038 MB Dedicated Memory: 1989 MB Shared Memory: 2048 MB Current Mode: 1920 x 1080 (32 bit) (60Hz) Monitor Name: Generic PnP Monitor Monitor Model: E2240 Monitor Id: GSM57A3 Native Mode: 1920 x 1080(p) (60.000Hz) Output Type: HD15 Driver Name: nvd3dumx.dll,nvwgf2umx.dll,nvwgf2umx.dll,nvd3dum,nvwgf2um,nvwgf2umDriver File Version: 9.18.0013.3221 (English) Driver Version: 9.18.13.3221 DDI Version: 11 Driver Model: WDDM 1.1 Driver Attributes: Final Retail Driver Date/Size: 12/19/2013 20:33:31, 18222008 bytes Also ran event viewer for the last shutdown: The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly. Provider [ Name] Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power EventID 41 Version 2 Level 1 Task 63 Opcode 0 Keywords 0x8000000000000002 - TimeCreated [ SystemTime] 2014-01-25T21:27:54.796017900Z EventRecordID 1066536 Correlation - Execution [ ProcessID] 4 [ ThreadID] 8 Channel System - EventData BugcheckCode 0 BugcheckParameter1 0x0 BugcheckParameter2 0x0 BugcheckParameter3 0x0 BugcheckParameter4 0x0 SleepInProgress false PowerButtonTimestamp 0

Never really had an issue with axes not working (1 hit with the fire axe, 2 with splitting axe normally kills them off). Theres a few beginner guides on the forum 'which are worth a read..but as the above poster said.. first stop is find some water (you'll find wells dotted around the towns). Most of the houses round the spawn points will have probably been picked dry by other players unless you fell lucky with a server restart.. so the best bet is to head north and you'll get to some places with a ton of loot. If you can't get your bearings then stick to the road - a lot riskier as plenty of bandits knocking about.. but stick with it - once you're through a few towns it'll be much quieter with a good chance of survival. (You can use the clouds to get an idea of where north is.. they go from west>east.)

Just as a quick update as I had a bit of time to spare today... Replaced two fans in the pc (so now running 1x200mm, 1x140mm 3x120mm, And also fitted a new CPU Cooler. Ran furmark stresstest which ran to 79 degrees with no stability issues / pc shutdown. Played DayZ in 'normal' for about 40 minutes & then upped the 'objects' detail to High.. System shutdown about 10 minutes later (with temp at 61c) So apart from motherboard issues I'm out of ideas :(

Going to start slowly upping the detail in game and see if I can find anything that spikes up the CPU temp...

Thanks indamixup - Ran windows diagnostic and memtest86 - no RAM issues found. Tested CPU temp with AIDA64, CPUID & the display on my PC and with DayZ running in game the the peak temp is 61c on CPU - Mboard - 34c

Porter, that's why I swapped out the PSU in case it was something hardware related. I don't really want to go to the level of messing with the mboard and such as not seeing any other issues on anything else . pretty frustrating!

Thanks all. I've submitted the bug tracker (0007571: DayZ Causing PC to fully shutdown) just FYI steak, game version is 0.32.114557