Solved Recover a computer system from Frozen screen with no restart

[mikeloeven]

Little trick i found when confronted with a completely locked instance of falloutNV but i assume this will work on any gamebryo engine if you know the executable.

 

 

Sometimes fallout games will crash so hard that they cant even close this leaves you with a load screen and a unresponsive computer that will not even let you pull up the task manager using alt-ctrl-delete. now you're thinking your screwed and have to hard boot your computer. Wrong unless you have a bluescreen the operating system is still running fine your problem is that the stubborn gamebryo engine failed to catch the error and most likely sent your graphics card into a loop of some kind preventing you from returning to the desktop.

 

so now heres how to get back to the desktop.

 

IMPORTANT. this operation is keyboard only moving the mouse and randomly clicking can launch programs or accidentally screw up stuff on your desktop.

now the recovery.

 

press alt-ctrl-delete if you haven't already sometimes youll see the task manager flicker on and off long enough to find and kill the falloutnv.exe process but most likely you wont see anything.

 

now while you cant see the taskmanager it has popped up and your keyboard and mouse are focused on the desktop although your still blinded by the image on the screen you can now access the windows command parser by pressing windowskey-R.

 

don't panic if you don't see anything the run box did pop up and is ready to accept your command.

now here you have to take a little leap of blind faith slowly and carefully type "taskkill /f /im falloutnv.exe" and press enter you may have to repeat this step several times because remember your typing into a box you cant see.

 

if you did it right pressing enter will execute the taskkill command and forcibly terminate the frozen game returning you to your desktop. now run fallout again and your all good to go

 

 

Enjoy this was a *censored* to figure out.