Hello.

 

I noticed after about 10-15 minutes of game play my PC would completely shut off. I did research online and realized my PSU wasn't powerful enough to handle GTA IV's  massive space. They recommended getting a more powerful PSU. I was wondering how powerful i should get? I have LCPDFR installed and it worked fine before i installed it. After I installed it, the computer would shutdown after about 10 minutes.

 

I appreciate you taking your time to read this. Thanks   

GTA 4 should not be effecting your power supply unit... over heating (GPU most likely) could be the primary issue for system failure. If your computer is working perfectly fine, other than running GTA 4, then it's most likely your GPU isn't up to par for GTA 4 and possibly your memory modules as well. That being said; if you did replace your GPU recently, then there could be a possibility of PSU issues... not having enough/correct wattage on supporting your new GPU and other PC internals.

Edited January 20, 201313 yr by Nutt

What kind of GPU would i need?

And what do you have now?

I have a ATI Radeon HD 3470

Yeah, you should get an upgrade. Post your whole system specs (RAM, PSU, HDD, Motherboard and CPU).

Use this thread instead:

Nothing to see here!

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