Unreal shutting down my computer
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Upgraded to 4.19 about two weeks ago and seem to have acquired a new feature: Unreal editor can now make my PC power off instantly when the viewport has to render a lot (high resolution screencaps, etc). It's not a blue screen, there's nothing in Event viewer either, instead it's like someone is pulling the plug. I have to power-cycle the machine afterwards to make it come alive again.
According to Google this may be caused by a CPU or GPU shutdown to protect from overheating. Anyone has seen this? The machine seems perfectly stable otherwise and has been for years (GPU rendering, etc) and it's not overclocked. I could not rule out a failing or overworked power supply but this would be the only application causing that.
Is there a solution to migrate assets to an older version? Need to test my scenes to see if 4.15/4.16 can do that to my computer - never seen it there.
According to Google this may be caused by a CPU or GPU shutdown to protect from overheating. Anyone has seen this? The machine seems perfectly stable otherwise and has been for years (GPU rendering, etc) and it's not overclocked. I could not rule out a failing or overworked power supply but this would be the only application causing that.
Is there a solution to migrate assets to an older version? Need to test my scenes to see if 4.15/4.16 can do that to my computer - never seen it there.
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I'll watch it for a bit longer but it seems Unreal may not be the culprit after all. This time, anyway.
In my case it must be the law of that Murphy bastard. I am due to start a new job tomorrow after all - what better time for the computer to break.