Windows 10 Games "Launching" on taskbar but game window not opening

[steadijam]

I can't launch any games on Windows 10. I can launch Adobe apps, web browsers, clients like Steam, but games will not open. I click "Play" on a game, and the game icon appears on the taskbar, and my cursor even changes to what the in-game cursor icon would look like, but I'm still on my desktop and cannot click anything. So, I alt-tab out of the game window (which is just the game cursor icon while I'm on my desktop) and then things are responsive again. If I try to alt-tab back into the game, my cursor icon changes back to the in-game one, but again no game window appears, I'm still just on my desktop and can't click anything. I end up just right clicking the game icon on the taskbar and closing the window since it's totally unresponsive.

Thanks for any help!

Video showing the problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZOydTAZ9Qw

 

[ebosss03]

In task manager is your disk usage and cpu usage at a 100%?

 

[steadijam]

In task manager is your disk usage and cpu usage at a 100%?

https://imgur.com/a/HTDakif

Doesn't look like it.

 

[scout_03]

di you try to reset steam client and check games files .

 

[steadijam]

di you try to reset steam client and check games files .

Yep

 

[scout_03]

could you post a picture of the page when you see this .

 

[steadijam]

could you post a picture of the page when you see this .

Picture of what page? The Steam cache folder or something?

I decided to make a quick video on my phone to better show the issue, maybe it'll help.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZOydTAZ9Qw

 

[scout_03]

the settings for games are set at full screen when did this thing happens after a update or loading a files there maybe corrupted registery filres try ccleaner and glary utilities to check all this .

 

[steadijam]

the settings for games are set at full screen when did this thing happens after a update or loading a files there maybe corrupted registery filres try ccleaner and glary utilities to check all this .

I honestly don't know when this started happening. I haven't played any games for a couple months, but wanted to start gaming a bit just now. I think I may have seen this issue a couple months back and brushed it off.

I'll try CCleaner to see if that helps.

 

[scout_03]

the other thing you could also do is os repair files you dont have any malwares and virus comes up clear in system .

 

[tejayd]

I'm assuming there are no background apps stopping it. I would try uninstalling and reinstalling (they should auto reinstall) the display drivers.

If you had to, Win10 system restore is easy to do and usually fixes the problems. Just a pain if you have a lot of stuff to redownload.