I have been having difficulties with the game. When I find the ghoul in the basemant during the Bright Mission where you have to clear out the nightkin. I have been told there is a patch, but am not very smart or literate at searching through hundreds of sites and chats looking for it. Thanks

You'll have to do a lot better than that. Games do not have access to the power switch circuitry. A really bad situation can arise in which a "BSOD" situation arises, and your Operating System makes the choice to reset itself, but a PC used for gaming should never allow that to happen with an AUTOMATIC reboot, since the Blue Screen has information on it that is required for diagnostic purposes.

Preliminary diagnostic information

First, however, what have you learned using the forum's SEARCH tool?

After failing to learn anything substantive that way, since PCs are not *anything* at all like game console systems, it adds another dimension to a question. That may not be news to you, but many noobs come here for help who have no such idea at all. There is literally almost nothing that is truly a "standard" between various branded PCs, making the game developers' jobs very difficult, and requiring that warning labels be attached to game boxes for any games with serious requirements.

Basic Hardware Specification Chart (Empty so far)

Processor Manufacturer: AMD / Intel
Processor Name / Type: Athlon X2 / Pentium D / C2D / dual core / quad, etc.
Processor Speed: ?.? Ghz
Operating System / Service Pack: WindowsXP with SP #?, Win7, Vista ? (Oh, no!)
System RAM: ? ? GBs (MBs, if less than 1024 ? )
Video (GPU) Manufacturer: ATI / Nvidia (only those two are supported, PERIOD, so please answer which of them you have)
Video Card Model: (examples) Radeon HD 5670 / Geforce GT 240
Video Card Driver Version: Catalyst ?.? / Nforce ??.??
. . (please use the numbers, not the word "latest")
Video Card onboard RAM: ? ? ? MBs
Sound Card Manufacturer:
Sound Card Model:

(And this is only for the raw hardware & driver variations. Potential software conflicts are far more likely to be game play problems, and developers cannot test for all possible program loads.)

P. S. Please use every day business style paragraph breaks, punctuation, and spelling.

Sounds like you cpu is overheating. Only time a game has ever caused my comp to shut down was with my old computer, and the cpu heat sink was dirty. Every time I started the game(The Sims) my comp would shut down. after cleaning out the heat sink it was fine. Does it shut down anywhere else?

no, it shut down three times at the same location. My computer just totally shut itself off...I'll see if my friend who is far more intelligent on computers then me can take a look at it.

You say "shut off". Does it instantly power off or does it go through the "Shutting down.." windows screen?

Yeah this is not a game issue but a PC hardware issue.

Either something is overheating or something is corrupted within Windows. (Windows and/or software/drivers.)

The game just pushes it to the limit and it restarts.

You can download and monitor the GPU and CPU temps while gaming. MSI Afterburner for the GPU, and CoreTemp, or RealTemp for the CPU.

If the temps look good, it would lead me to believe a Windows reinstall is order.

Yes, the computer will totally just shut off. No shutting down windows screen...straight off

Open up your case and see if there is any excess dust/debris blocking vents and fans. Also, make sure all of your fans are working.