Game not closing on quit, running as unkillable background process.

[killingyouguy]

Hey.

Recently, whenever I quit games they're not closing properly.They appear closed but Steam says I'm still in-game. If I look under processes in the Task Manager the game's .exe is either: a) missing, b) an unkillable background process, c) there, but when I end it it THEN becomes an unkillable background process, or d) missing but found in the Resource Monitor as an unkillable process.

I can't get back into the game or verify caches because I'm *apparently* still playing the game. The only way to close the program is to restart Windows. Signing out and back in relaunches Steam but, there it is again, I'm still in-game. End-tasking Steam doesn't allow me to kill the game's process either.

This is happening for a variety of games. Hammerwatch, Risk of Rain, Crusader Kings 2, Monaco.

Can anyone help?

I'm running Windows 8.1 Pro and I'm admin.

[cutething]

How did you close the games? Did you click "quit game" or something similar to that or did you just click the red X?

[;;]

got the same problem

[killingyouguy]

Just "quit". "exit to windows", or whichever option there is on the main menu. And good to know I'm not the only one.

[killingyouguy]

*bump*

[GyratingJesus]

I have the same problem. I can quit a game via the in-game option, go back and try to re-launch later in the day and steam will tell me "app already running". So I go to task manager to find the process, only to find out that it isn't "running" as far as windows is concerned. I can kill steam.exe, which will allow me to play my game, but I'd really rather not have to resort to a workaround just to play the games that I paid for.