My macbook pro resets when playing games in windows

I have a macbook pro 2011 and I installed windows with boot camp. when i play games in windows after about 1 hour or so the system resets. why? I dont have any games installed in macintoch so I dont know if it has the same problem in macintoch too.

how can i check these in windows? can u help plz?

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