I’m sure there is a much better and more specific place to ask this, so please let me know if you can think of one. But i couldn’t, so I’m asking here for now. I have a program on Windows 10 (The game S.T.A.L.K.E.R Clear Sky via Steam incase somehow that matters.recently I’ve had this game freeze, and I can’t even get it closed with alt+F4. I know my OS is not entirely frozen because I can see the little window-switching animation when I use alt+tab. But the cursor is nowhere to be found, no matter what i do. After a few minutes, my game is a black screen on one of my monitors, and there is no way to free my cursor from its eternal damnation or even lay eyes on the little fella one last time
The question is: how else might i destroy a computer-wide problematic program, probably with only my keyboard.
I know it’s Windows, but there must be at least one other method that could work, right?
I typed this all while drunk so forgive any mistakes but goddammit i’m very curious what other solutions might be out there
Hmmm i knew that one but didnt think to try it because the mouse wasnt working. I just assumed that because I couldn’t switch the focused window with alt+tab, that opening another wouldn’t work either. But i also have task manager always open on one monitor so my situation could be different either way.
Regardless, I pretty quickly fixed my game through means that have nothing to do with this topic, but because I asked the question and I’m genuinely curious, I’ll load my corrupted save and see what happens in a moment (it was a quicksave that couldnt be loaded without freezing shit basically)