Constant crashing?

Hello,
I have been able to run games like Minecraft with no problem. Never has my video card ever crashed when I play other peoples' games, but, when I create a few spheres and a few third-person characters that come with Unity and try to make my own game, my graphic card keeps crashing. How do I fix this?

Thank you,
Michael S. Lowe

 

What happens when a graphics card crashes, compared to a entire OS crash?
Do you mean the Unity build crashes?
If it is in fact - the graphics card (need to know which card you are running) there has to be some debugging software to assist - to figure out why the card is crashing.

To note: Minecraft is not a graphically intensive game - at all.

 

This is what I get...

 

Have you try to turn on VSync for your game and see if this makes any change?

 

Yes. I downloaded the latest drivers from the Nvidia website. Vsync was already on I believe.

 

When I run a Unity game I designed with about 100 simple shapes or more, sometimes, my laptop shuts off and is hot.

 

Are some laptops designed to get hot and automatically shut off over even 100 simple shapes that have all their meshes combined, because of the CPU usage that it takes to render them? What is usually needed so that doesn't happen often or at all? I use Alienware.

 

EnsurdFrndship, I'm 99% sure it's because you are not limiting the frame rates of your game. It causes the game to utilise 100% of CPU and GPU resources, it does not matter how many or how simple your scene is.

Your laptop is just getting too hot due to to much utilisation and shuts down the graphic driver.

Turn on VSync or limit the frame rates otherwise, like in control panel of your graphic card, and see if this makes any effect. Also, monitor CPU and GPU utilisation while your game is running.

 

Thank you.