The PC gets stuck on its own after you shut down your games.
The PC gets stuck on its own after you shut down your games.
Hey guys, I've been having trouble with my computer for about ten days. It gets stuck and freezes right after I quit a game (it works fine while playing). This happens every time I close Assassin's Creed Unity on Steam and also in about fifty percent of the times when I finish Wolfenstein New Colossus on Steam. But it doesn't happen if I finish Red Dead Redemption 2 on Epic or Hellblade on GOG. I use games from an external SATA SSD that is connected with a Sabrent USB 3.0 adapter. The drivers for my motherboard, graphics cards, and Windows are all current. My Sfc/Scannow tool doesn't find any problems, nor does the Health check. I also checked the integrity of my SSD using Windows tools, and it seems fine too. Even though I reinstalled Steam without fixing it, that didn't help either. I'm running on Windows 11 Pro with this hardware: AMD Ryzen 7800X3D MSI PRO B650-P WIFI G.skill 32 GB PC-6000 WD 1 TB SSD Black Powercolor RX 7900 XTX OC Hellhound XPG Core Reactor 850W. Thanks in advance for your help
I am wondering if you made the exact same mistake as me when you first turned on Steam. How do I stop using it? Should I press the X button at the very top right, or should I click "Steam" in the top left menu and choose "Close"? This is important because for so long, whenever I clicked that top right X while playing a game called Satisfactory, my computer would just freeze up completely. It wouldn't turn off on its own unless I used the forced restart option from Steam to shut it down properly. So far away from using that top left "Steam" button and choosing close is the right way to go.
Steam is freezing way too soon after I press back to desktop, so I just keep waiting until the screen goes black.
i just looked at your thread again, and i was planning to put some games on an external ssd just like you did since my two ssds are getting full. forums and the company who made my pc told me that putting games on an external drive is not a good idea. It might take a little while but i would move a copy of a game's client file onto the computer's main drive, then install the actual game from there. If everything works fine, i think the real problems are happening because your games live on an external drive instead of inside my computer.