[Knightro (old)]

Has anyone else experienced this:

During regular full screen game play, at any given moment with no regularity the screen just goes to black and dies.
Toggle to finder does not work, force quit does not work and the last second of sound that occurred in the game repeats faster and faster until the game I presume freezes.

I have to cold start the machine, this often takes several restarts in order to get the display to sync and "come back to life".

It happened once last night, it has happened 5-6 times in one sitting.

It's a real drag.

I have run the disk permissions utility.
I'm hoping somebody has an Idea of some kind that is helpful.

[Yas]

i think it's your graphics card, maybe a build up of dust causing it to overheat, clean it out and try again.
hope you havent done permanent damage to it.
good luck and be careful.

[mitsubishi]

overheating is a good idea and it may be also overheating of the cpu.

check overheating in general, how to keep cool the system.

[Knightro (old)]

That is possible I keep the tower on the countertop it's not enclosed or restricted as far as air flow goes.

I opened up the unit and there was dust, not exactly caked. I blew out the entire unit with air. I ran the game to check the CPU temps they are fine during game play I will run it hard tonight and monitor the airflow behind the graphic card's vent as well. The Nvidia card itself is less than a year old.

Thanks

[mitsubishi]

dust is extremely. it's extremely important because it's easy to assume it's unimportant.

I was like 'oh who cares about little dust on the side of the laptop' and then to my surprise whole months of issues went away by just blowing out the dust from it.