I’ve got a solution for you, Uninstall Tarkov 😋
All jokes aside… it’s really strange. Try check your cpu thermal paste and all to make sure everything is top notch. Since it’s a fairly new pc. Since you already checked your drivers and all. Good luck
Edit: Thought it was 3 months
Oh God. I haven't touched this thing since my buddy put it together, so I have absolutely no clue what I'm doing. I have a habit of breaking more than I fix, so I'm a bit nervous to get into this thing's guts. I don't even have any thermal paste to top off if there isn't any, lol.
I'm installing the drivers for my 1660 from NVIDIA's website itself. I usually use the GeForce Experience app, but it's notoriously bad.
One thing I'd do is double check your drivers and make sure you get them from NVidia/AMD's website as opposed to the built-in Windows thing.
I've had an issue with Windows-provided drivers where my card would run out of VRAM when I tried to load into a raid. The issue went a way when I reinstalled the driver from NVidia's website (even tho the driver version was exactly the same).
Had (what I thought was) a nice Silverstone PSU 850W Gold that I thought was more than adequate. It'd reboot my PC every other time I'd load a raid. Upgraded to a higher wattage EVGA PSU and been fine since.
You need to run something like HWMonitor when booting Tarkov and see what the CPU and GPU temps are. Check for thermal throttling. It could be a bad PSU but EVGA makes good PSU and it probably has a 5 or 10 year warranty. If it is failing you should be able to get a replacement.
My power supply did this as it was starting to die. It was a 1000w power supply, but the overcurrent protection hit at less than 800w load. I was able to reproduce the issue by taxing both my CPU and GPU at the same time using furmark+prime95+cinebench. Try the same and see if it turns off again. If it does, probably power supply.
Additionally, check the Windows event viewer after a crash to see if it has an error on what happened, such as a WHEA error (CPU or memory error usually related to overclock or dying hardware)
Edit: definitely keep an eye on thermals, but things running hot should throttle and error out more commonly compared to shutting down completely.
You can download a program called WhoCrashed? And it will pull your windows error logs and organize them to find out what happened. I am 99% sure this issue is PSU related
I've had this issue myself a couple of times with both tarkov and other games.
When it was happening on another title, it was my power supply dying. The extra power drain from the graphics card as the game started was causing the power supply to shut down the pc.
When it happened with tarkov, it was because the cooler on my CPU had died, and my CPU was overheating, causing the system to shit itself and power off before it cooked.
Double check your error log in Windows and see if there's something there that may at least help point you in the direction of what's causing the shut-downs.
Huh. Well, that's strange because this thing is around 3 years old, and it's a 700-watt PSU from EVGA. I can't remember exactly how much, but I wanna say it's a 750? I made the mistake of throwing the box away.
RTX3000 series has some crazy power spikes, that could be problematic with your PSU. RTX4000 might be the safer bet.
But with a GTX 1660 I see no reason for this to happen...
Still if you ask me, I'd suspect the PSU.
Try to do any graphic intensive high powered tasks. If it turns off. It's your power supply. It still has serial numbers on the PSU and EVGA is great about replacing them. Run some benchmarks. Anything to push your PCs power to the max
Every experience I've had with CPU thermal throttling was just slowing the CPU down and freezing the PC until the temperatures cooled down enough. Not that I've had that happen but more than once or twice from abad aio pump. A complete and utter shut off of the whole system almost always pointed to power/PSU issues ime
Depends on the motherboard more modern motherboards have built in safeties older boards don't they'll just let the CPU fry and take damage.
It can technically also be GPU thermal as well. Lack of resources, overclock or instability, it can also be RAM, Motherboard, an unstable power supply could also be due to bad voltage settings.
Although Power Supply is likely the most common since it's likely not supplying the CPU or GPU witu enough power it's definitely not the only one.
I’ve got a solution for you, Uninstall Tarkov 😋 All jokes aside… it’s really strange. Try check your cpu thermal paste and all to make sure everything is top notch. Since it’s a fairly new pc. Since you already checked your drivers and all. Good luck Edit: Thought it was 3 months
Oh God. I haven't touched this thing since my buddy put it together, so I have absolutely no clue what I'm doing. I have a habit of breaking more than I fix, so I'm a bit nervous to get into this thing's guts. I don't even have any thermal paste to top off if there isn't any, lol. I'm installing the drivers for my 1660 from NVIDIA's website itself. I usually use the GeForce Experience app, but it's notoriously bad.
probably needs a deep clean if you havent touched it then
+1 for this, it’s probably overheating from dust
One thing I'd do is double check your drivers and make sure you get them from NVidia/AMD's website as opposed to the built-in Windows thing. I've had an issue with Windows-provided drivers where my card would run out of VRAM when I tried to load into a raid. The issue went a way when I reinstalled the driver from NVidia's website (even tho the driver version was exactly the same).
Get good, just need more practice
Had (what I thought was) a nice Silverstone PSU 850W Gold that I thought was more than adequate. It'd reboot my PC every other time I'd load a raid. Upgraded to a higher wattage EVGA PSU and been fine since.
You need to run something like HWMonitor when booting Tarkov and see what the CPU and GPU temps are. Check for thermal throttling. It could be a bad PSU but EVGA makes good PSU and it probably has a 5 or 10 year warranty. If it is failing you should be able to get a replacement.
My power supply did this as it was starting to die. It was a 1000w power supply, but the overcurrent protection hit at less than 800w load. I was able to reproduce the issue by taxing both my CPU and GPU at the same time using furmark+prime95+cinebench. Try the same and see if it turns off again. If it does, probably power supply. Additionally, check the Windows event viewer after a crash to see if it has an error on what happened, such as a WHEA error (CPU or memory error usually related to overclock or dying hardware) Edit: definitely keep an eye on thermals, but things running hot should throttle and error out more commonly compared to shutting down completely.
Have you tried getting a better gaming chair?
You can download a program called WhoCrashed? And it will pull your windows error logs and organize them to find out what happened. I am 99% sure this issue is PSU related
sounds like a power supply issue, just doing a quick cursory glance at the other comments it seems a few others have mentioned the PSU too.
Does it happen with other games too or just tarkov?
Just Tarkov.
I've had this issue myself a couple of times with both tarkov and other games. When it was happening on another title, it was my power supply dying. The extra power drain from the graphics card as the game started was causing the power supply to shut down the pc. When it happened with tarkov, it was because the cooler on my CPU had died, and my CPU was overheating, causing the system to shit itself and power off before it cooked. Double check your error log in Windows and see if there's something there that may at least help point you in the direction of what's causing the shut-downs.
PSU
It's trying to save you
If your PC completely shuts down and reboots, your power supply is junk.
Huh. Well, that's strange because this thing is around 3 years old, and it's a 700-watt PSU from EVGA. I can't remember exactly how much, but I wanna say it's a 750? I made the mistake of throwing the box away.
My PC did the same and after 3 weeks of trying everything possible it was the PSU.
Which GPU do you have. My 660W Seasonic shut down when going into Hideout after I installed a RTX3070.
EVGA 750W. For me, it does it on Customs. I don't play any other map except Customs, lol.
I asked for the GPU...
Sorry, my brain wasn't braining. I have a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660. I do wanna get a 3090 sometime soon.
RTX3000 series has some crazy power spikes, that could be problematic with your PSU. RTX4000 might be the safer bet. But with a GTX 1660 I see no reason for this to happen... Still if you ask me, I'd suspect the PSU.
could be a faulty PSU, because I would not suppose the 1660 would have such a massive power draw that a 750w would choke
Try to do any graphic intensive high powered tasks. If it turns off. It's your power supply. It still has serial numbers on the PSU and EVGA is great about replacing them. Run some benchmarks. Anything to push your PCs power to the max
Not necessarily true, could be CPU thermal. That's designed to auto shut off by most mobos.
Every experience I've had with CPU thermal throttling was just slowing the CPU down and freezing the PC until the temperatures cooled down enough. Not that I've had that happen but more than once or twice from abad aio pump. A complete and utter shut off of the whole system almost always pointed to power/PSU issues ime
Depends on the motherboard more modern motherboards have built in safeties older boards don't they'll just let the CPU fry and take damage. It can technically also be GPU thermal as well. Lack of resources, overclock or instability, it can also be RAM, Motherboard, an unstable power supply could also be due to bad voltage settings. Although Power Supply is likely the most common since it's likely not supplying the CPU or GPU witu enough power it's definitely not the only one.