Hi,

I got the game the other day and have started it 3 times, only being able to actually play (for a good 5h) the second one.

The first time, the CPU fans went crazy as soon as the game started, and my PC just lost power before I had finished creating my character. Starting my PC right away resulted in the BIOS POST telling me the CPU temperature was too high for operation, which indeed led me to think something odd is happening behind the scenes.
The second time, nothing odd happened.
And just today, when I was ready to continue my campaign, CPU fans starting fanning like crazy as soon as the game starts. Not 3 minutes later the PC losses power. Starting the PC right away resulted in it shutting down again before even making it past the BIOS splashscreen (no CPU Temperature reports this time, but the fans did spin heavily).

I have not changed any default settings in the game. Using an AMD Fx-8350 with an RX480 GPU, 8GB system RAM. Anyone else having a similar issue?

Thanks in advance,
Dechcaudron

Go into bios and shutdown core overclocking feature. Mobo mfg's set this to auto. What is does is jack the CPU temp up and over clocks it. Had the the cpu temp alarm go off while installing an OS. No reason for it. Set your cpu clock and temp voltage to manual and normal voltage. I build comps. Got 6 fx8370 and 2 fx8350 comps. this game is not a heavy rersource hog. When the vid fans go nuts its the drivers . Had that experience also.

vsync enabled indeed But that would not explain why it only happens some times, would it?

Then you have power supply issues. If everything goes off instanly, power cuts out all dark. That is tellling.

Make sure to flash the latest firmware for your mobo, if you haven't ever updated it.

Oddly enough I'm getting the same thing on my PC, I can play many, many 3d games like Stellaris, Fallout 4 and others without issue, but when playing this game I experience one of two symptoms
The first one started today when the PC just restarted, like I'd hit a reset button
I forgot I'd left the game minimized in the task bar at this point
So a few hours later I started the game again, minimized it to put some music on and my display went into standby a few minutes later, I could hear the music playing in the background, so the PC hadn't fully crashed.
I hit the power button and it shut down normally
About 15 minutes ago I go into the game, I'm travelling between jump gates and again my display just goes into standby and the sound from the game stops.
I don't honestly know if it's this game that's doing it, but it seems like a strange coincidence it only does it with this one
I'm about to run some stress tests and play some other games just to see.

No problem. You'll have to change some old or failing hardware.

Well, my hardware was fine until I started playing this game
I think it stresses your computers hardware, as my graphics card ended up failing (GTX 970)
I had planned to order a new PC anyways, which arrived yesterday, so I'll give the game another try, this time on a GTX 2070 Super.

I was able to play for several hours before my computer just reset out of the blue, like I'd lost power
Then it would only manage half an hour in Astrox before my monitor would shut off, the sound would stutter and I'd have to physically turn the computer off/on to use it again.
Each time there was a message in the Windows event log saying the nvidia driver had crashed and recovered, but it switched to the Microsoft Basic Display adapter or something.
After the 5th monitor outage, the display never came back.
The last two outages though, occurred outside of the game, so I'm sure it was just coincedental.

Those symptoms would be consistent with a failing Power Supply Unit.

That's what I thought, but I replaced it with a 850 watt Platinum high end brand one and it was still doing it.
I'm 99% sure it was the graphics card, as when it was removed, the PC would boot up fine in the background
Plugging it back in again and the pc wouldn't boot.
I have a new pc now, but I don't want to risk trying it in the new one.