Awesome, I’ll give this a go when I get home tonight! Thanks!
I’m hoping it just turns out my computer’s power cable isn’t securely connected and I just need to push it in and suddenly everything will work again, but I am prepared to go on a deep tech investigation if it turns out to be more dramatic.
in general your components’ idle temperatures should be between 30 and 45C and load should gradually increase to the low 80s then very rapidly level out as everything hits its max fan speed
oh yeah if you are hearing that when you shouldn’t be that is a sign that either a) you have a bitcoin miner running or some other process hanging or b) your cooling is not attached properly
to those who spent any amount of time with kid icarus: uprising- do the stand and (iirc) larger stylus included with the physical edition make it any easier on the wrists?
edit: no, no it most certainly does not- gimme my blood potion back, stavekoff.
Yo @Felix and @VastleCania: I fixed my computer troubles and you are not going to believe what caused them.
So I got home and first tested to make sure I was still having the problem. Yup, could not run Hitman 2 for more than 5 minutes before a total freeze. So I checked my power cable and noticed it was not super secure at either end. I pushed it in and rebooted my computer. Tried the game again - same freeze.
So then I grabbed another power cable from a drawer and replaced my old one. Still got the freeze.
Next I installed Clint’s suggested app and monitored the temperature of my GPU. It followed the exact temperature curve that Felix suggested represented normal operating parameters.
I booted the game up again, and got the freeze again. While I was trying unsuccessfully to get my computer to show me the diagnostics, I got a call from my mom. I picked up and started talking with her. During the conversation, I idly turned my Xbox One controller off. My computer INSTANTLY unfroze. I went “what the fuck?” and my mom was like “don’t say that~!”
So after the phone call I booted up Hitman 2 without the controller and just controlled it with keyboard and mouse for a while. No freezing. It ran perfectly. Whaaaat?
So I looked it up online and apparently a bunch of people have had this problem. Someone said that this happened to them whenever their controller was low on batteries. So… I replaced my Xbone controller’s batteries.
And guess what? Everything works fucking perfectly now.
Even the RE2 demo works now! I coulda bought that game for PC after all!
What the fuck, Microsoft?!
But I’m pretty fuckin elated right now. I didn’t have to buy a new graphics card. I didn’t even have to buy a new power supply! I’m only out the cost of two double A batteries!