what can happen if you hard reboot while playing a game?

[Dutch]

someone did that to me, I dont see any problems, I just wanna make sure.

[Phantom]

Exiting Steam incorrectly can make games appear as uninstalled.

Always exit games and exit Steam before shutting down / rebooting.

[Sandmann]

Depending on what game it is if it is Save Based You will loose everything since your last save. Online games should be fine But like garrys mod Sometimes Your addons will disapear.

[Snapjak]

Lost/corrupted saves, Steam not seeing the game, stuff like that.

Usually nothing serious.

[Dutch]

what if its like Dead by daylight? I had just finished a match, and my bro shut it down to be funny

[Phantom]

Any game can be affected.

[Jaunitta 🌸]

You must have had a power outage at some time where your system is turned instantly off?
Then you reboot and it reloads without much difference.
You may need to log into Steam.
I have auto log in enabled so that makes no difference.
Chrome is great as it offers to restore pages.
So whatever browser based was open can be restored. If it was a live event in a browser that should restore.
With any open games those will launch from last save
Chat retains history.
Windows will retain and also probably restore last open folders or programs.
So you wont really lose too much unless you were writing an email message that will be lost.
Or had a word document open or a power point or any multimedia or photo editing tools will only restore last known save.
Your brother is a fool if he does stuff like this it's not a joke.
It can damage your windows especially if an AV was running a scan in the background, antivirus lock directories within the deep core and registry of windows during a scan and if the power is suddenly shut off those directories can be locked permanently causing the system tobecome unbootable forcing a format and reinstall of windows.

[Phantom]

Most Email services save drafts.

GMAIL does still quite effectively by default.

[Jaunitta 🌸]

Originally posted by Robin3sk:

Most Email services save drafts.

GMAIL does still quite effectively by default.

:yinyangflip:

as I said browser based are restored, Gmail is browser based
windows live or windows 10 mail is not and if your caught when composing an email in the desktop that is not saved.

[Phantom]

I should've quoted what you said earlier.

I see the ninja edit.

[XistenZ]

Your actual hardware (especially harddrives) could take a hit. Corrupted files in any program or game that was running during the reset.

Don't do it. Smite the one responsible.