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game suddenly stopped working, how to trouble shoot?
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Did you update your system without restarting? It's usually the problem when games stop working on my machine.
This gets me every single time.
I update my system and suddenly everything goes semi-haywire and refuses to work. My stupid ass has spent hours (and literally broken systems before) just trying to 'fix' it.
I am still regularly surprised by what a restart can fix on every OS I have ever used or supported.
The difference between when MY Linux laptop has been running for a while (multiple days) and recently restarted is very noticeable. All the quirks disappear and everything is slightly smoother, and also for some reason I get faster WiFi?
Yeah, I rarely use sleep on anything but phones and tablets (and I still try to restart those once a week) just because things run more consistently.