Game shuts down computer 5 minutes into playing it

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i am deffinatly above and beyond the call of requirments

my comp: intel i5 processor @ 2.67 ghz

ati radeon 4600 HD video card

8gb ram

i play for 5 minutes then my computer shuts down like im holding the power button. any suggestions?

i have already updated my video card drivers

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Many people areexperiencingproblems with system overheating, try turning all graphics to minimum and sound off.

If it runsnormallyonce you do that, slowly re-enable thing (starting with sound) until you get to the one that causes your computer to shut down.

|||ok going to try that right now i have turned grafics all off and music but ambient sound is on as well i'll let you know how it work s out give me ten minutes please|||didn't work..maybe made it last a minute longer|||anyone?|||clean out all the dust in the PC
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try this fix

http://forums.ageofempiresonline.com/forums/thread/100650.aspx

|||cleaned all the dust out temp according to pc health check in bios is 46 Degrees Celcius just after shut down so over heating is not a problem|||

bump...anyone?

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Does it make a difference if you're playing a quest or idle in your city?

If not,Minimize the game window and see if something else is happening, such as a Windows Updater is preforming a restart or shut down of your system. A few years ago there was a an issue on the web that when you updated some software it would activate the windows shutdown system. For some reason I'm thinking it was tied to a video card driver update or spamware software update and it caused havoc with users. Like I said, it was a few years ago. While in the game you wouldn't notice the shutdown popup being in full screen mode but this "could" be the issue resurfacing again. I do know there was a solution for this issue back then and I'm sure if it's the same issue popping up again the old fix would work.

Let me know your findings...

Bill

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Reply to both:

vsync is on and doesnt make a difference. still shuts down

and i have i minimized anyways because i've been monitoring the system while its running and i havent noticed any pop-ups...

i have not tried idling in the city it is usuallly during the end of a quest that it happens..would this make a difference tho i will try to experiment with just idling in the city now i will let you know my findings thx alot stand by

|||it shuts down if i just idle on my city as well. please help|||

Can you grab me the specs on your Monitor and your computers power supply.

|||sure where would i find em?