Computer keeps crashing?

[Ev Dowg]

Ever since yesterday, my laptop has been shutting off on me. My dad took a look at it and apparantly, the battery was being a bitch. So we took it out, cleaned it up a bit, and my computer worked well right after that.
Unfortunately, whenever my power runs low and I plug in my charger it shuts off minutes later. It's almost like it's trying to keep up with the power supply. I'm not going to spend $100 to have some cigarette from the GeekSquad come look at it so I'm resorting to the internet. Anybody have any ideas or suggestions regarding my problem?

NOTES:
-My computer is an ASUS [Republic of Gamers] Gaming laptop with 12GB+ RAM, around 6-8 dual processors, and 575GB harddrive space.
-It may be a coincidence, but ever since I downloaded a Steam game called 'Sanctum' the crashes happened. The graphics are trippy, even for my computer and it lags when my graphics are set to High.
-I take good care of my computer; constantly polishing the screen and keyboard and making sure to do a "start menu shutdown" vs. the power button each time I turn it off.
-I've had this computer ever since December 25th, 2010.
-This laptop was purchased brand new from Best Buy.

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Look at Critical events in the Event Viewer.

[Nickelob Ultra]

Instead of resorting to spending $100+ to have some cigarette from GeekSquad come look at it, try contacting ASUS tech support.

It sounds like hardware failure, more specifically your GPU likely.

[Ev Dowg]

Look at Critical events in the Event Viewer.

How would I do that?

Instead of resorting to spending $100+ to have some cigarette from GeekSquad come look at it, try contacting ASUS tech support.

It sounds like hardware failure, more specifically your GPU likely.

I could call them yes, but what is a GPU?

[Ethan]

NOTES:
-My computer is an ASUS [Republic of Gamers] Gaming laptop with 12GB+ RAM, around 6-8 dual processors, and 575GB harddrive space.

6 to 8 dual processors?
What the forget are you on, lol.

Real specs are on the dxdiag page.

Start > Run > dxdiag

Post entire contents of the first tab, and the display tab.

[Nickelob Ultra]

I could call them yes, but what is a GPU?

Graphics Processing Unit.

It makes all the pretty 3D pictures.

[Ev Dowg]

I think I've figured out the problem. It's no coincidence that it shuts off when I play that Sanctum game. I've played each of my games for 2 hours each with no problem but when I got on that one, it shut off 12 minutes later.

[Ethan]

6 to 8 dual processors?
What the forget are you on, lol.

Real specs are on the dxdiag page.

Start > Run > dxdiag

Post entire contents of the first tab, and the display tab.

Still do this though. I'm interested as to how you got 6 to 8 dual processors, lol.
Also, is it overheating?