computer shuts down Kuban career mission

[Mamamango1Chewycat]

I purchased new Battle of Kuban and started a career pilot. On first mission, a fighter bomber artillery attack mission, my computer shuts down after we make a few passes at the enemy. This has happened twice. I've never had problems with any IL-2 products or Rise of Flight. This is weird.

[Seb71]

That sounds more like a hardware problem (which only manifests under certain loads).

[Mamamango1Chewycat]

I've never had a complete computer shut off with any of the IL2 products. I did have an issue loading the newest version (3.001) as it took me three times to finally get it done. Then when I have tried to connect (online of course) I have had to do that at least twice before I can get on. Perhaps the newer version is taxing my computer when it never has in the past?

[[CPT]Pike*HarryM]

I ran into this when I upgraded my video card and my old power supply was not quite good enough to run it at max settings/max FPS. I wound up throttling the card back to use less power until I could upgrade the PSU.

[Seb71]

Start by checking the CPU and GPU temperatures under load.

 

Then open the case and look if the coolers are clean (no excessive dust).

 

Could also be the power supply, but this is more difficult to test by itself.

[[CPT]Pike*HarryM]

Yeah, I wound up running through one of these and I came up about 30 watts short. I could fly around fine for the most part but as soon as got near something demanding like fire/smoke, instant shut-down.

 

https://outervision.com/power-supply-calculator

[Mamamango1Chewycat]

I hear ya Pike...the game runs fine when there isn't a whole lot going on. The first mission in the Kuban career has quite a bit of ground forces and then some Russian planes come in to intercept us. Thanks for the input. I'm not very techie but I did make sure my computer was free of dust. I just will probably take my box in to the local computer heads and ask them to get me more power and perhaps a more powerful cooler. The new Kuban game, by the way, looks pretty good!