Why do games just randomly stop working?

[JimmyJames420]

yes i check file integrity, uninstall / reinstall, but nothing works.

[nullable]

Well something could be wrong with your system... or you play games that are kinda buggy?

I mean in general I haven't experienced that problem. And most games are stable enough that they don't just break irreparably. But I'm a single user software developer who's been PC gaming for twenty years so you'd kind of expect me to have it all figured out... your situation could be a lot different. Hard to know without any details. (like what games, systems specs, windows version, etc)

[JimmyJames420]

all my other games are working except for 2, super blood hockey, which was working fine yesterday, and wrestling revolution 3d. No changes were made to my pc.

[nullable]

Ok, and do you get an error or anything?

You might need to delete any configuration files (might be in my documents) or something, but you'd have to look it up per game.

I would try restarting Steam. And maybe restarting your PC. If the either game's exe failed to shutdown and is still running in your task manager that might be the cause. Hard to say because it's not like the games share an engine or anything remotely similar so I think it's coincidentally they're both failing to run.

I mean you kinda have to go through all the silly. Reinstall, restart, update drivers etc. Just to rule it out. And then look at any configuration issues individually. You might also open up the event viewer, try running one of the games and see if anything gets logged there too.

[The Giving One]

"Not working" does not really tell us much. Describe what you see exactly after you click the "play" button in your library. Give details.

Also, it's always a good idea to post your system specs in threads like this.

Go to "Help" in the top of Steam. Then, system information. Right click in the new window, select all, then copy and paste all that here.

[JimmyJames420]

I was reading a different post, when someone said the game won't start if you don't have any audio outs hooked up. I had no speakers at the moment, and couldn't get bluetooth to work. But now I can play again.