Can't leave frozen game. Way stop force stop without task manager?

[By-Tor And The Snow Cat]

Hey all,

Is there a way to force stop the game via some keyboard command? Or does anyone know of a way to get out of the frozen game?

So, sometimes this game just crashes and closes the program, but other times, the game just freezes, and I'm stuck with the frozen screen of the game. When I try alt + tab, the little Steam thing comes up showing my other open programs, but when I click on them, the window won't come up -- it seems nothing can override the frozen game screen. If I press ctrl + alt + delete, it will bring me to the Windows 10 menu where I can choose things like task manager (and signing out, etc.), but when I choose task manager, it just goes back to the frozen screen. I know task manager is open because if I press alt + tab it's shown there, but, as with all other open programs, I can't get the program to show up because the game's frozen screen won't yield. The only thing I can do is sign out of Windows completely via the ctrl + alt + delete menu, which obviously also closes all my other programs and is thus extremely annoying.

So, is there a way to force stop the game via some keyboard command? Or does anyone know of a way to get out of the frozen game?

Thanks in advance for any help.

EDIT: one more question. If I copy the Documents/BioshockHD/Bioshock/SaveGames folder and place that copy somewhere else, is that enough to have copied all my saves? I know people have said elsewhere that their saves became corrupted at some point, so I want to make sure I back them up. If the saves ever get corrupted, can I just replace the SaveGames folder with the copy I made? Or is there more I need to do?

[Gat]

Can you ask if your wife is free tonight, cheers.

Ctrl+shift+ESC. Try game on windowed mode & a copy of folder will suffice.

[By-Tor And The Snow Cat]

Originally posted by Your wife's boyfriend:

Can you ask if your wife is free tonight, cheers.

Ctrl+shift+ESC. Try game on windowed mode & a copy of folder will suffice.

With regard to the first suggestion: I've already instituted the shortcut command recommended in the first section of the following like (I have it binded to Ctrl + Alt + F). I haven't yet had the opportunity to use it.

Weird thing I noticed last night when I went to replace the copied save folder with a new copy full of my newest saved game: the original copied folder, which I placed in a file pathway completely outside of Bioshock's, had updated with the new saves. How is this possible? If the folder is somehow inextricably linked with the original folder, I assume all the saves in the backup folder would become corrupted, should that ever happen to my saves.

Regarding my wife: I don't actually have one. Sorry to disappoint you. You clearly thought I was one of the husbands of your many girlfriends, but I was just joking. I'm personally free tomorrow though, if you want to chill or something.

[_veleron]

Originally posted by By-Tor & The Snow Cat:

Weird thing I noticed last night when I went to replace the copied save folder with a new copy full of my newest saved game: the original copied folder, which I placed in a file pathway completely outside of Bioshock's, had updated with the new saves. How is this possible?

Well, they can't be link, but the game will download cloud saves (the ones you have in your new/far away location) to the default folder if you haven't turned off cloud saves for BSR

[By-Tor And The Snow Cat]

Originally posted by _veleron:

Originally posted by By-Tor & The Snow Cat:

Weird thing I noticed last night when I went to replace the copied save folder with a new copy full of my newest saved game: the original copied folder, which I placed in a file pathway completely outside of Bioshock's, had updated with the new saves. How is this possible?

Well, they can't be link, but the game will download cloud saves (the ones you have in your new/far away location) to the default folder if you haven't turned off cloud saves for BSR :BITRAY_Mistrust:

When you say "the default folder," you mean the one in Documents/BioshockHD/Bioshock/SaveGames, right? Because I made a separate folder with the pathway Documents/Backups/Saves, so it shouldn't be linked in any way.

[_veleron]

Yeah, that one; and they *can't* be linked.
My idea is that you could have deleted files in the default folder and then see them reappearing again thinking they are in-sync with the other folder while they are in fact copies of your steam cloud saves.

[By-Tor And The Snow Cat]

Originally posted by _veleron:

Yeah, that one; and they *can't* be linked.
My idea is that you could have deleted files in the default folder and then see them reappearing again thinking they are in-sync with the other folder while they are in fact copies of your steam cloud saves.

Actually, all of this happened because, when I went to replace the existing backup folder with a new copy (something I now do after every session. Of course, each session of this game ends when it finally crashes), I went to paste it. When a message came up saying I had 35 files with the same name already there, I thought to myself, "I didn't have 35 saves in that original folder." Every file from the new copy was already in the old backup file folder, even though there were at least 15 new saves from my latest session (yup, saving 15 times in a 2 hour session because I can't trust the game. Thanks, 2K!).

I don't know. Maybe there's something I'm missing. It's possible I had already accidentally replaced it with the newly copied folder a few seconds before, as I decided to keep the original folder and rename it, and then place the new folder in that pathway as well. I might have accidentally chosen "replace" the first time around. That's the only explanation I can muster.

Oh, and for you and anyone else reading: this link https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/BioShock_Remastered that everyone keeps posting has one really great piece of advice for how to skip that one minute intro the game forces you to sit through every time you start it. Just search the page for "-nointro" and, if you don't know how to institute it (I didn't), click the word "parameter," which gives an explanation. It's very simple.

[Gat]

Put your backup saves in a zip folder & name it are traps gay, no way there will be a conflict then but perhaps you might end up with more than you originally put in.

As for tomorrow, I'll bring a wig.