Help with games crashing

[kidlidar]

I recently updated to windows 11 about the same time steam updated. Slowly, ALL my steam games stopped working. They all have different errors, from a unity error to just saying, " an unexpected error occurred" Funny thing is that it didn't happen all at once. Some crashed after having them for about 14 days, to games that I've had for years. I can get into hardware specifics if anyone wants them, but all of these games worked fine when I was running Win 10 and before the steam update.

[Lavie]

Hi!

Try if you can found a log a the error via the Event Viewer.
https://www.howtogeek.com/123646/htg-explains-what-the-windows-event-viewer-is-and-how-you-can-use-it/

More details found on the net if that can help you with that:

Try opening the Windows Event Viewer by right clicking the start button and selecting Event Viewer from the menu (third from the top option on my machine). From there, expand Windows Logs and select Application. The middle pane should contain a list with columns named "Level, Date and Time, Source, Event ID, Task Category" and so on (the specific columns may differ on your computer).

Portal 2 crashing should result in Windows writing an entry with level Error and source Application Error to this list. To find the entry corresponding to the crash, locate entries matching those values (using the Date and Time column as a guide), and click to display details in the lower middle pane. The entry corresponding to Portal 2 crashing will list the Faulting application name as portal2.exe. Once you have found an entry, note the Faulting module name and Exception code; these will provide a clue as to what is ultimately causing the problems.

Also be sure all drivers are up to date.

[Arg0n]

You downloaded the games for Win 10, then updated to Win 11 without formating your drive?

You can try to check the the event viewer https://www.howtogeek.com/123646/htg-explains-what-the-windows-event-viewer-is-and-how-you-can-use-it/ to get some more information on what might be wrong.

I would suggest to start from scratch though. So format your drives and use a clean installation of Win 11 and Steam.

[kidlidar]

So ArgOn, These games were on my PC when windows auto updated to win 11. Here's what I've done so far:
Restarted my machine.
Checked for updated drivers (all good)
Reinstalled both steam and all my games.
Not sure what else to do.

[Arg0n]

Like Lavie and I suggested, check the Event Viewer.
And when nothing helps, start from scratch.

[kidlidar]

Ok thanks