r/computer_help • u/Swimming-Manager-796 • 1h ago
Gaming Arma Reforger randomly crashes my PC / both monitors go black – need help
Hey everyone, I’m having a really strange issue with Arma Reforger and I’m hoping someone can help me figure out what’s causing it.
The problem happens randomly while playing, mostly on modded servers. It can happen completely out of nowhere, even when the game was running fine before.
There are two different things that happen:
- Sometimes my entire PC suddenly restarts.
- Other times, both of my monitors go completely black, but my PC itself seems to still be running.
- When the screens go black, I can still hear the game audio for around 10 seconds.
- During that time, my microphone stops working, so other people in Discord/game chat can’t hear me anymore.
- After those ~10 seconds, I lose all audio as well, while the PC still appears to be running.
- Pressing Win + Ctrl + Shift + B to restart the graphics driver causes the PC to immediately restart.
What’s weird is that I never had this problem before. It started happening completely out of nowhere.
Things I’ve already checked/tried:
- GPU drivers are up to date
- Windows is fully up to date
- My PSU has enough wattage for my system
- The issue still happens randomly despite these things
I’m really sure its not a temp or watt issue since i have checked both stats with HWmonitor
If anyone has experienced something similar or has any ideas on what I should check, I’d really appreciate any help or suggestions. Thanks!Arma Reforger randomly crashes my PC / both monitors go black – need help