My PC randomly stops working after playing Day-Z for about 30 minutes?

[Josh3497 2]

Hello everyone.

Saturday I downloaded Dayz at long last so I could play it. To my disappointment, I'm having an issue that is making the game unplayable after a short period of time.

After running around in Dayz, I noticed that I had lost connection to the game. I figured 'Okay, no problem, I'll just re-connect to the internet'. When I looked down, I noticed that my keyboard was shut off, but my mouse was still working. So I could not alt-tab or ctrl + alt + delete out of the game. I had to unfortunately restart my PC to get out of Dayz, and the my computer worked properly again. So I figured it was a glitch or something, I re-launched DayZ commander and reconnected to the server. After about another 30 minutes of play, the same thing happened. I lost connection to the server, my keyboard shut off, but my mouse did not work. I managed to get out of the game though, and returned to my desktop. I tried unplugging and re-plugging my internet adapter and keyboard, but they did not turn on, the computer didn't even tell me that there was anything in the USB port. I had to restart my computer AGAIN for them to become responsive once more.

So I tested on other games, to see if the problem was the same on there. I played Battlefield 3 Ultra Graphics perfectly fine, Garry's Mod for a few hours, and even Arma 2 AND Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead for a few hours with no issues. This is the weirdest thing. So I googled my issue and found nothing that can help me. I tried launching dayz and then closing DayZ commander (the program I use to find Dayz servers and launch the game with) and not using the steam overlay, running the game in windowed mode, and so on. This did not help. About a half an hour later after I was really getting in to the game, the same thing happened! What could the issue be? I'm pretty sure my PSU is more than capable of handling my hardware. I only have ONE gpu, and I do not overclock anything. Is there a problem with my motherboard? I run my other games fine..I don't understand. Please help me. I would really love to be able to play Dayz with my friends. I have not tried playing Day-z through steam either by the way. It wouldn't work for me anyways, which is why I used DayZ commander. I also have tried downloading 'Play With Six' Day-Z launcher, and that did not work either. The same problem occurred.

Also when this issue does happen, my PC speakers stay on, and my Xbox 360 controller (which is hooked up to one of my USB ports in the front) stays lit up.

My PC specs:

GPU: GTX 680 Superclocked FTW+ 4GB VRAM

CPU: Intel i5 3570k ~ 3.4ghz (4 CPU's)

PSU: Corsair Platinum Certified AX860 860Watt

RAM: 8 Gigabytes

HDD: 500 GB

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z77X-D3H

Display: 1366 x 768

All of my PC hardware is brand new except for my RAM and HDD..I got my upgrade at around late January.

[DayzForumer 284]

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I shouldn't be on the forums when i'm tired.

Edited March 6, 2013 by DayzForumer

[Josh3497 2]

Lol? It has to do with my internet and my USB ports (though it seems at times after I wait for a little while of waiting I can use my mouse and keyboard again but still can't connect to the internet unless I restart the computer, though restarting the modem could probably prevent this). I don't have an issue with graphics, the computer stays on and other games run perfectly fine.

Not sure if trolling or just stupid.

But in case you weren't trolling, if you were smart enough to comprehend what I was writing, you'd take in to consideration that the base game, and Operation Arrowhead (which Day-Z is run off of) work perfectly fine on my computer.

Edited March 4, 2013 by Josh3497

[colekern 1364]

Get an non-clocked GPU next time.

Well that didn't help at all.

Anyways OP, I have no idea what's wrong. This is gonna sound dumb, but try cleaning your computer, scanning for viruses, defrag, clean your hard drive with CCleaner, and joining a different server. The whole shabang.

Edited March 4, 2013 by colekern

[AmberHelios 2071]

are you using a usb wireless adapter. try updating your drivers motherboard ones too

[Josh3497 2]

I think I've fixed the issue! I did tried a bunch of different things and I managed to play a game of Day-Z for about 3 hours. I'm not sure what it was I did exactly but if anyone ends up having the same problem as me and they search the internet for it, I'll post everything I did to help, I'm not sure what I did fixed the problem exactly but it's one of these:

- Uninstalled Day-Z on Steam

- Validated both ARMA 2 and ARMA: OA (Arma 2 OA failed to validate 14 files when I did it, so maybe that had something to do with it?)

- I defragged Local Disc (C:)

- I took Colekern's advice and went on my motherboard brand's website, downloaded some Intel USB3 drives and restarted my PC (I'm guessing this is what fixed it.)

- Did a Check-Disc on startup to find any errors.

- Installed Day-Z through Day-Z commander instead of Steam.

Thank you to everyone (especially Colekern) who made suggestions to help me remedy my issue! I'm hoping this will be the last of my troubles. Really enjoying the game/mod so far. :)

- Josh

Edited March 5, 2013 by Josh3497

[colekern 1364]

I think I've fixed the issue! I did tried a bunch of different things and I managed to play a game of Day-Z for about 3 hours. I'm not sure what it was I did exactly but if anyone ends up having the same problem as me and they search the internet for it, I'll post everything I did to help, I'm not sure what I did fixed the problem exactly but it's one of these:

- Uninstalled Day-Z on Steam

- Validated both ARMA 2 and ARMA: OA (Arma 2 OA failed to validate 14 files when I did it, so maybe that had something to do with it?)

- I defragged Local Disc (C:)

- I took Colekern's advice and went on my motherboard brand's website, downloaded some Intel USB3 drives and restarted my PC (I'm guessing this is what fixed it.)

- Did a Check-Disc on startup to find any errors.

- Installed Day-Z through Day-Z commander instead of Steam.

Thank you to everyone (especially Colekern) who made suggestions to help me remedy my issue! I'm hoping this will be the last of my troubles. Really enjoying the game/mod so far. :)

- Josh

Thank God. I thought this was going to turn into something huge. Enjoy DayZ!