Ice mage & pds41:

so, the PSU was upside down, despite the photo on the guide saying to point the fan up. (foreign guides, eeeh)

i had terrible cable management. That's on me.

the CPU cooler was on the wrong side.

I never told them the original reason I was having problems. just that everything went wonky after trying to figure out what was wrong with the fan on top of the case & power behaving weirdly after laying it down and turning on.

I could have said someting about the full system crashes, but i never thought of it. I just wanted it to be working and then I'd get back to it. But alas.

I'm just going to say F it and play as long as I want to and not give a damn about temperatures and all that.

oh, they also said the motherboard wasn't mounted on stand-offs.

ran GSS with 60 set as the fps in game.. temp went up to 70C but not too bad? No crashes either. so I'm guessing I'm done with this topic.

Thanks everybody for your help.


Edit: it seems for some reason, at 60FPS if I pause the game for a bit, the GPU temp rose from 70 to nearly 90C. I didn't like that so I saved and get the heck out of GSS. Naturally, the temp started going down due to not using graphics.

I'm going to answer your original question, since it looks like that wasn't really touched due to you having issues with the computer itself. Assuming your computer is in top shape, Can You Run It is fine for desktop computers. From experience as a laptop user, the site says that nothing will run on my computer due to the integrated graphics chip. CYIR only acknowledges dedicated VRAM and doesn't recognize that these graphics chips borrow from system memory so from this site's point of view, even games that will run on a potato won't run on my laptop.

If you ever find yourself trying to run a game on a laptop, PCBenchmark is a lot more reliable as it is able to look at my computer's graphic chip borrowing system RAM. Again this is also assuming that the laptop is in top shape and doesn't have any issues. I find the graphs helpful when my computer meets the minimum requirements but not the recommended. If my laptop comes out very low versus the recommended, I don't risk it as the game isn't likely to run well.

I hope this helps for in the future. :)

Sounds like poor optimization. Games aren't supposed to tax the GPU more while paused. Besides, the issue seems resolved otherwise. I'm glad you were able to work it out.
My advice is to just look at the system requirements. Assume the "recommended" requirements are for 30 FPS at 1080p, unless otherwise specified.

all right. thanks for all of your help.