Complete Crash

WTF?  That is wierd!

I've checked the timing and voltage of my RAM, checked the power source for shorts, checked the event viewer for possible conflicts and crashes, but all that happens is the computer shuts down. Not a full Windows shutdown, but as though I flick the power switch off kind of shutdown. There is still power to the rig, but it completely turns off, no warning.

EDIT: Just finished a quick virus scan, no viruses whatsoever were detected.

Happens to me every once in a while. Before patch too. I think it maybe random enough that it just didn't happen to you before patch. Do you have Vista 64-bit?

I'm running XP Pro 32bit. The first time it happened the game was sitting there for a while at the title screen (I was up getting food). The second time was in game (the second game I've played since the patch) about 10 min into the game.

Just played another Pantheon game. This time the computer stayed on, but the game completely closed itself and I went right to the desktop from play. Guess I'm not playing anymore games until this game is fixed.

I get the same issues twice yesterday but i just get a freeze of screen. My graphic drivers are updated and i run on windows Vista 32 Home premium.

It never happened before.

I'm hoping this is some kind of issue with the latest patch, but I can't imagine what it would be. Could it be some kind of incompatibility with drivers or maybe a networking issue? My money would be on networking configurations as the patch probably tried to address some of the problems regarding that.

It may be nothing - but do you have any kind of temperature monitors in your system? If some components get hot enough they'll shut your system down (rather than fry it). If you have any other graphics intensive game, may be worth trying out - get them loaded, play a bit, and see if they do the same.

I'm running 2 Geforce 8800 GTS's (the G92 version) and both are showing up as running well. The CPU is also running fine with no overheating warning.

I don't think it's overheating at all as it would have showed up in the event viewer or given me some kind of warning that it was getting hot or overheating. Additionally, mymotherboard came with an active temp gauge that runs on the desktop which gives a warning if anything on it starts to overheat before it shuts down.

The thing is, why would it have started this only after the patch in the first 2 games I played since then. Also, I haven't experienced overheating, crashing, or system shutdowns with any other game I currently own since a good 5 months ago when I revamped the system (new board, cpu, cards, ram, power supply).

Any other suggestions, or does anyone have a link to what the patch did?

Well I am in the same boat.

I will be in the game lobby and BOOP the entire computer shuts down. I assumed it was because my graphics card was getting hot, so I used this as an excuse to upgrade it. I played all last night fine and then today at lunch while in the lobby. My entire computer shuts off!!!

I did a search and found this thread, so I know I am not the only one.  My cpu temp is like 26c and my video card is an HD 4870 512 meg.  I am running on a core2duo e6400 as well. I have 4 gigs of ram. (some specifics to see if maybe we have something in common)

I am going to run extensive testing tonight to see what the problem is:

prime 95 and if no errors 3dmark, both in a loop for at least 2 hours each.

I have the latest drivers on everything.

Nothing else crashes my computer