Quitting DragonAge 2 Results In Windows 11 Breaking
Title implies all that it needs really.
Ive tried checking with mods and without mods. ive tried selectively removing single mods from the game at a time. and after alot of forced shutdowns i can confirm its not a mod issue
I dunno if its because of the core game itself or the fact im limiting the amount of cores it uses via task manager. But it seems like a 50/50 chance of it happening and i cant for the life of me find any sort of resolution to this major problem. Because having to force shutdown the PC after every time i quit the game just makes me not want to play the game anymore
So what's the issue. Simple, Quitting the game results in a ghost process being left running. Even tho it only takes up 1GB of ram it has zero CPU usage. The resulting issue prevents me from opening any application correctly. The window will appear but will show as a blank white or transparent window like it failed to load. You can move the windows about and close them.
Nuking the task via tsk mgr does nothing. Same with the following sub processes like steam and EA, Cannot access cmd prompt to further advance in nuking the process because the window wont load, i cannot shutdown the PC nor restart. i click it and then nothing happens. Resetting the graphics driver (CTRL+WIN+SHIFT+B) results in the driver not restarting. The only way to proceed from this point on is to force shutdown the PC via holding the power button for 3 seconds.
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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!
