Every Things BREAKING! Windows 10 Dieing????

[KillerGirl]

So just about a few weeks ago I was playing black ops 3 when my pc shut off, i thought it was a power surge, dad said none of the switches where off, so i started it back up and tried to play and now its telling me the game won't work i sighed and said f it i'll play something else, and now its like any of the games am installing from my steam library isnt working, skyrim, mass effect, and mass effect 2 (< from origin) and now also plague inc has a purple screen???? i tried what the dev said and go download i think it was visual C 2015, but it canceled and said its already installed and can't install this, I had already made the decision to build a new computer but i still will have to wait nearly 2 months to save up enough money to pay for it , and now am wondering if windows 10 is completely broken for gaming

[GuruMeditationError]

19 minutes ago, KillerGirl said:

So just about a few weeks ago I was playing black ops 3 when my pc shut off, i thought it was a power surge, dad said none of the switches where off, so i started it back up and tried to play and now its telling me the game won't work i sighed and said f it i'll play something else, and now its like any of the games am installing from my steam library isnt working, skyrim, mass effect, and mass effect 2 (< from origin) and now also plague inc has a purple screen???? i tried what the dev said and go download i think it was visual C 2015, but it canceled and said its already installed and can't install this, I had already made the decision to build a new computer but i still will have to wait nearly 2 months to save up enough money to pay for it , and now am wondering if windows 10 is completely broken for gaming

If the game is 32bit than you might need to download the 32 bit Visual C (if there is one), regardless of whether or not you might be running 64bit windows...I've found that you need to match the stuff you download to what you're trying to get working with respect to that (rather than downloading the stuff to mach your OS's bit/word-string size) so, if the game you need to get working is a 32bit game you need to download 32bit libraries to try and get it to work (regardless of whether or not your Windows is 64bit)... if it's not that then, I'm out of ideas.

[KillerGirl]

3 minutes ago, GuruMeditationError said:

If the game is 32bit than you might need to download the 32 bit Visual C (if there is one), regardless of whether or not you might be running 64bit windows...I've found that you need to match the stuff you download to what you're trying to get working with respect to that (rather than downloading the stuff to mach your OS's bit/word-string size... if it's not that then, I'm out of ideas.

uuuh??? ive been running windows 10 for like close to a whole year now and never had this problem expect with older games

[KillerGirl]

system type is is 64-bit based operating system, x64-based processor 

[GuruMeditationError]

Just now, KillerGirl said:

uuuh??? ive been running windows 10 for like close to a whole year now and never had this problem expect with older games

You might be experiencing seperate problems that you're attributing to one source. If the devs told you to download stuff to get solve the purple screen problem than there's an offchance that what you attempted didn't work because you installed the wrong file types...

...as for the other stuff, it could be something completely different.

Have you been keeping your drivers up to date?

[TetraSky]

Windows 10 itself probably isn't the problem here. It could be hardware related or you might have something that's interfering with Steam.

Is there any error message when trying to open a game? Or is it just unresponsive/black screen?

Is it just Steam games that are breaking? Do you have any Origin only game or Uplay or even a game that doesn't rely on those launchers?

 

If your games are installed on a different drive than your boot drive, I would suggest running a utility such as WD lifeguard or Seagate's Seatool, to find out if your harddrive is defective. You may be able to "write" to it, but "reading" might not work, thus causing the issue.

 

Have you tried all of the following:

-Reinstalling steam.

-Disabling the Overlay in the options of Steam.

-Getting the newest drivers for your graphic card.

-Installing the latest DirectX.

-Going in one of your game's folder, there's should be something like a "Redist" folder in it, which contains things like vcredits both x86 and x64 from various years like 2005, 2008 etc..., dotnet4.0/4.5. Install those.

[KillerGirl]

Just now, GuruMeditationError said:

You might be experiencing seperate problems that you're attributing to one source. If the devs told you to download stuff to get solve the purple screen problem than there's an offchance that what you attempted didn't work because you installed the wrong file types...

...as for the other stuff, it could be something completely different.

Have you been keeping your drivers up to date?

am pretty sure, altho windows 10 has that problem where it updates and freezes

[GuruMeditationError]

3 minutes ago, KillerGirl said:

system type is is 64-bit based operating system, x64-based processor 

Sure, but if the game is a 32bit game you need to update or re-download the 32bit libraries to support it.

That could potenitally at least fix your purple screen issue, but to be honest I really don't know that much about this stuff. If the Devs told you to download stuff then that's probably the most likely solution, but you need to match the stuff you're downloading to fix the game, to the game and not to the operating system...to be safe it's probably best to install both the 32 bit and 64 bit  versions of everything you download while you're at the page as it could save you time later.

[KillerGirl]

as of right now, am just done with this current build, all i want to know is windows 10 still ok to use as long as i have everything downloaded properly? 

[GuruMeditationError]

2 minutes ago, KillerGirl said:

am pretty sure, altho windows 10 has that problem where it updates and freezes

It might be worth trying to repair your OS...do you have a Windows boot media that you can boot with to see if it'll automatically repair the Windows installation? I've never had that work ever...but it's been a while since I've even attempted it so it might be worth trying.

You could try this: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/instantanswers/512a5183-ffab-40c5-8a68-021e32467565/windows-update-troubleshooter

[GuruMeditationError]

5 minutes ago, KillerGirl said:

as of right now, am just done with this current build, all i want to know is windows 10 still ok to use as long as i have everything downloaded properly? 

Kind of? If it's not letting you update then it's a potential security risk and if there is something that wrong with it, then there's a chance it might just get progressively worse. If it's only going to be a month or so before you move to a new P.C. it might not be worth messing around with this one...save all of that time and energy for when you have the new install in place.

[TetraSky]

7 minutes ago, KillerGirl said:

am pretty sure, altho windows 10 has that problem where it updates and freezes

6 minutes ago, KillerGirl said:

as of right now, am just done with this current build, all i want to know is windows 10 still ok to use as long as i have everything downloaded properly? 

If even Windows updates don't work, no, it isn't "ok". Without updates, you'd be vulnerable to worms like WannaCrypt, the vulnerability it used was patched nearly 2 months before that ransomware went "live".

If Windows itself is falling apart, you may as well just reinstall it using the Media Creation Tool. Even if you don't have a productkey, it will activate by itself the moment you connect to the internet.

Something may have gone horribly wrong somewhere along the line for your PC, either because a thirdparty software couldn't play nice with Windows or Windows itself hit a wall with a borked update.

I mean, at this point if everything doesn't work, you're not losing much by formatting. Just transfer your personal data like photos, videos, documents, browser bookmarks, etc... to a flash drive/secondary hard drive. Don't use the "Reset" feature in Windows 10, if your OS itself is borked, that won't fix it.