Colin Mcrae Dirt (PC)

glenmoranjie · Jun 18, 2007, 10:50 AM

Installed and played this incredible looking game last night. A few minutes in, the fuse blew in my pc's plug!

It has never happened before in the year I have had the pc, so is this a coincidence or are the very high level demands of this game just too much??

Zardon · Jun 18, 2007, 10:52 AM

Total coincedence.

**temeteus82** · Jun 18, 2007, 11:07 AM

Yeah make sure that you don't have too much stuff connected the same fuse. So if you have 1000W PSU and some other stuff on that fuse let's say about 500W more you can do the math how big fuse you need to power all that ...

glenmoranjie · Jun 20, 2007, 09:33 AM

Played it again last night and it was fine.

Not easy, but a damn good game.

**temeteus82** · Jun 20, 2007, 10:50 AM

glad it works now. I had similar issues some time ago when I started to run Folding@home the fuse (10A) blew every two months until I realized that I had overload that was causing the fuse to blow. I had my PC around 650W total, old freezer (1000W) and fridge (700W) and some house lights. I was about 250W overloading it so I just moved my PC's power lines to another plug that wasn't using that fuse. So now I don't have the overload here and all works just fine.

Jun 18, 2007, 10:50 AM	#1
glenmoranjie DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: May 2007 Location: London Posts: 6 Rep Power: 0	Colin Mcrae Dirt (PC) Installed and played this incredible looking game last night. A few minutes in, the fuse blew in my pc's plug! It has never happened before in the year I have had the pc, so is this a coincidence or are the very high level demands of this game just too much??

Jun 18, 2007, 10:52 AM	#2
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 179	Total coincedence.

Jun 20, 2007, 09:33 AM	Thread Starter #4
glenmoranjie DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: May 2007 Location: London Posts: 6 Rep Power: 0	Played it again last night and it was fine. Not easy, but a damn good game.