Re: Quitting DragonAge 2 Results In Windows 11 Breaking
@Frantzen79 @Orkkongen @flatline22
Just realized there was many more that replied after all this time.
but yea im still here. and i seen the email regarding a new post. and to update yous all regarding what has happened. i posted this issue on the dragonage subreddit and posted my fix for this issue
for a TL;DR
Essentially i installed a program called borderless gaming. you can find it github. and that had resolved my issue
As to why this issue happens. my guess was that because windows 10 introduced optimizations to windowed games to be able to make them play in fullscreen borderless windowed mode without any penalties it somehow made the game unable to shutdown correctly. and it was somehow corrupting the games process as well as a core windows process making the OS inherently soft bricked as you could no longer queue actions or tasks making it seem like nothing was responding AKA failure to open apps or task manager etc etc. so the only option was to hold down the power button to force a shutdown
when looking into the program itself it seemed like there was alot of negative discussion surrounding it on steam. but no one was sure if both of them were ever related. but after a virus total scan as well as installing from github it installed and ran fine without any issues. very minimal impact on system resources. no cpu usage and mabye 17MB of ram being used. and just to be on the safe side i put a block on both outgoing and incoming TCP network requests in windows firewall. and have had no issues since then
Hope this helps!
for a TL;DR
Essentially i installed a program called borderless gaming. you can find it github. and that had resolved my issue
As to why this issue happens. my guess was that because windows 10 introduced optimizations to windowed games to be able to make them play in fullscreen borderless windowed mode without any penalties it somehow made the game unable to shutdown correctly. and it was somehow corrupting the games process as well as a core windows process making the OS inherently soft bricked as you could no longer queue actions or tasks making it seem like nothing was responding AKA failure to open apps or task manager etc etc. so the only option was to hold down the power button to force a shutdown
when looking into the program itself it seemed like there was alot of negative discussion surrounding it on steam. but no one was sure if both of them were ever related. but after a virus total scan as well as installing from github it installed and ran fine without any issues. very minimal impact on system resources. no cpu usage and mabye 17MB of ram being used. and just to be on the safe side i put a block on both outgoing and incoming TCP network requests in windows firewall. and have had no issues since then
Hope this helps!
