Game Crashes and Totally Locks up PC
Hello,
I recently bought NFS Heat as I was excited to find my way back into the NFS franchise as this game looked amazing. After installing it, I discovered that the game will consistently crash after 20-30 minutes of playing it and I haven't been able to play it any longer than that. When the game crashes, however, it also locks my computer up totally forcing me to have to do a total hard shutdown/hard restart. I've played around with some other "fixes" I've seen floating around, such as forcing the FPS to be limited at 30 FPS, running the game .ex as administrator, and even tinkering with the graphics settings. I finally ended up just uninstalling and reinstalling the game. Nothing has been successful.
I also would like to note that this is the only game I have encountered this issue with on this PC and I have been spending countless hours on Skyrim (118 hours), R6 Siege (120 hours), and American Truck Sim/Euro Truck Sim 2 (111 hours/138 hours) and lesser hours on a handful of other games which leads me to believe that the problem is revolving around NFS Heat itself and not my PC.
I am hoping that there is a way to fix this, as I don't want to have wasted $60+ on the game just to only be able to play it 20-30 minutes at the time and end up wrecking my PC from the constant power cycling that is needed just to play the game.
I would appreciate any sort of advice or help, thank you!