Flash [SOLVED] Flash games force reboot my computer.

TheeSonus

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To preface this, I'm on a desktop running Windows 10. My specs are MORE than good enough to run VR games, so I have no idea why it would reboot for flash of all things.

I don't understand why this happens, but flash force reboots my computer. After playing for a certain amount of time, my computer seems to crash and reboot with no input from me whatsoever, and doesn't give me a single reason as to what might cause it.

Web based flash games do it insanely quick, within a minute or so (but that's not really the issue considering web based flash is disabled now), and computer based flash games (used with a downloaded .swf player) last longer, usually 30 minutes to an hour. I've found only one that doesn't crash on me, but it's a much older flash game.

I can't really glean much information from this, so I'm actually getting aggravated over this. My best guess would be a conflict between my system and ActionScript 3, considering it only does this for newer flash games which are likely to be using that? I really don't know though, and any help would be appreciated!
 

scrumbles

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How do you play the .swf files? Do you use the official ?
Do you see anything strange if you inspect the CPU and RAM usage while playing the games?
What if you ?
 

TheeSonus

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How do you play the .swf files? Do you use the official ?
Do you see anything strange if you inspect the CPU and RAM usage while playing the games?
What if you ?
As far as I know, yes, I am using the official Flash projector.
Nothing looks odd with my CPU and RAM usage when I'm playing, but I might not have been looking hard enough. I'll see if something changes when I test it tomorrow morning.
Never tried sandboxing it, but never really thought of that either so... I'll try that as well, I guess.
 

TheeSonus

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Okay so: I am using the official flash projector.
CPU and RAM are just fine while playing, the computer just force reboots itself with no input from me whatsoever at random times it seems.
I am unable to sandbox it as my cpu doesn't support it, at least not the way that guide states.
 

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This issue still isn't solved... if someone has any idea of what might be causing this, help would be greatly appreciated!
 

TheeSonus

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Ended up finally figuring this out thanks to the assistance of my brother, who knows infinitely more about computers than I do. As it turns out, the voltage of my CPU was unstable. I turned off some speed boost thing I don't remember the name of and set a constant voltage to it, and now my PC no longer force restarts.
Genuinely forgot I made this thread for a while, but it's good to finally have a conclusion to this issue that I've been dealing with for however long now.