Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Technical & Gameplay Problems Pc Restarts for no reason when playing

as stated in the title my pc completely restarts when playing for no reason, and the time it takes varies from hours to a couple mins. I've verified the game, reinstalled it, check my drivers are all updated (including audio and my keyboard ((don't ask haha)) ) but this is persistent and its starting to grate my nerves, anyone know anything or experienced something similar?

should also note that this doesn't happen on other games literally only bg 3


PC specs are
8700k i7
2080 Ti
32gig ddr4 3200hz

When restart takes hours, what exactly it is doing all this time? Does it run checkdisk? Because I can think of no other restart activity that could take that much time.

If so, do you have an old mechanical HDD, or SSD / NVMe? It might make sense to run a thorough hardware diagnostic on it - chances are, your disk is going to give up ghost in a foreseeable future.
Another reason may be your memory isn't exactly up to that frequency, so it causes data corruption which is being persisted onto the disk. The advice stands, give your machine a full diagnostic scan.

Well...starting with the easy parts, try using HWINFO64 to monitor and write CPU/GPU temperatures to a file (in case it's a heat related shutdown) and memory usage (in case there's a memory leak in the game).

After that, all I can think of is to install Windows Debug utilities from the Microsoft Store. That can read your memory dump file if it exists and tell you the last thing your computer was doing before the crash. I found a problem with an audio driver a long time ago using this. I looked at the very last DLL it accessed before the crash and it was related to my audio card.