Recently, a few of my PC games began failing to even launch, only giving me a popup stating that the game has crashed. So after reading through several forums, through Steam, I verified the integrity of the game files and also cleared the download cache, neither "fix" worked. I even reinstalled one of the games, which still didn't fix the problem. I then decided to go ahead and use Display Driver Uninstaller, not really expecting it to fix anything. Well, it actually fixed the problem, it didn't really make much sense to me but hey, it allowed all my games to launch properly. I tested about 5 games a few minutes on each and even ran stress tests with Cinebench and 3D Mark. Everything seemed back to normal!! As a final check, I shutdown the computer for a few minutes and then turned it back on. I once again clicked on a few of the games that were having trouble launching and the same exact problem is back! They don't want to launch. I'm starting to run out of ideas. Not sure what is causing the problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Maybe some software or some setting is automatically turning back on during the shutdown. Idk, nothing makes sense.
Build specs...
Windows 7, 64 bit
X99 chipset
6900k cpu
2x 1080ti
16 gb memory
Games that launch...
Civilization V
Company of Heroes 2
Wargame Red Dragon
Games that don't launch...
Cities Skylines
Ghost Recon Wildlands
The Witcher 3
Steel Division
Build specs...
Windows 7, 64 bit
X99 chipset
6900k cpu
2x 1080ti
16 gb memory
Games that launch...
Civilization V
Company of Heroes 2
Wargame Red Dragon
Games that don't launch...
Cities Skylines
Ghost Recon Wildlands
The Witcher 3
Steel Division