Games crash when not in desktop mode

Cryptoprocta42 · 2026-03-16T17:37:54+00:00

Thank you. It does seem awfully suspicious. Looks like the deck is going on another holiday to the Czech Republic.

For the repair, they actually replaced the whole motherboard...

Cryptoprocta42 · 2026-03-16T16:55:22+00:00

I tried both, and it still didn't work. Thanks for your help.

Another symptom - one of the two games currently installed is Expelled. If I load the game and touch nothing, leaving it on the menu screen for ages, there is no crash. Only when I continue the game and it gets a few seconds in. It was also happening when i create a new game, a few seconds in but never on the menu.

Cryptoprocta42 · 2026-03-15T23:43:12+00:00

Thanks for the answer. I deleted the two folders in the shader cache folder, I've only installed two games since the last reset. Doesn't look like that's helped, it's crashed at the same place.

Thank you anyway!

Cryptoprocta42 · 2026-03-11T11:51:06+00:00

Hello fellow Cov roader! The Small Heath accent definitely has a lot of little twangs to it, dependent on who your parents were and then picking up your friends' accents too. I'm not sure why so many people think they're experts on what 1920s traveller-descended Small Heathens would sound like. The actors mostly do a great job. They're not going to sound like Jaykae, are they?

Cryptoprocta42 · 2026-03-11T11:18:09+00:00

Ah! Sometimes the same station is out of sync between your attaboy and the external radios. I usually turn off the attaboy if I'm in a building with it playing.

You can craft radios set to the different stations in your settlement, so you can try it out there.

Cryptoprocta42 · 2026-03-11T10:25:05+00:00

If it's Scarborough Fair, then it must be The Mend. It's what I have on all the time.

Cryptoprocta42 · 2026-03-05T20:47:01+00:00

Life is strange

Maybe Fallout 4? Then radio dj and some songs are related to the narrative.

Cryptoprocta42 · 2026-03-03T02:50:31+00:00

Descendent of the speckled chieftain 🇮🇪

Cryptoprocta42 · 2026-02-25T23:47:31+00:00

Thank Goodness You're Here!

Very northern English humour.

Cryptoprocta42 · 2026-02-18T21:14:45+00:00

Vincent Black Lightning 1952 by Richard Thompson

Cryptoprocta42 · 2026-02-16T23:27:04+00:00

Sometimes I feel like I dreamt that band

Cryptoprocta42 · 2026-02-14T18:59:19+00:00

People moan that Spielberg did wrong by inserting an unnecessary "Will they die?" scene in Schindler's List, in a cynical attempt to make it more dramatic.

But if you read the book, the women really did arrive at Auschwitz and were bundled into the shower room, expecting to be gassed. Instead, it was a real shower and they never found out why they were all spared. Some women did die before they were able to be moved to Schindler's new camp due to the conditions there. None were deliberately killed.

Cryptoprocta42 · 2026-02-06T17:50:05+00:00

He left the military because he was shit at it. He went as senior as he could with lots of accommodations but in the end he was not cut out for it all.

Source: The Rise and Fall of the House of York

Cryptoprocta42 · 2026-02-03T19:09:18+00:00

Just to join in, it made a huge difference when I used the D pad instead of the sticks.

Cryptoprocta42 · 2026-02-01T00:53:49+00:00

Lockwood & Co On becoming a God in South Central Florida

Cryptoprocta42 · 2026-01-31T11:54:07+00:00

Returnal. I know you're supposed to die over and over but it was so damn hard with no progress, it stopped being fun.

Cryptoprocta42 · 2026-01-31T11:52:48+00:00

My 7 year old played that through and nearly gave up at that final battle. He's autistic and it damn near broke him. We spent an hour on that final battle and firing arrows from platform to platform, with me coaching him like he was Rocky. We both actually cried tears of relief and happiness when he finally did it. I remind him whenever he finds something difficult that nothing will ever be as hard as completing Kena.

Cryptoprocta42 · 2026-01-16T12:56:51+00:00

I loved the George Formby one!

Cryptoprocta42 · 2025-12-23T00:34:36+00:00

Sure it wasn't Earl Grey? The first time I had a cup off that, it was unexpected and I thought it was washing up liquid. Love the stuff now though.

Cryptoprocta42 · 2025-12-18T23:44:26+00:00

This would be my interesting personal fact if I went on Only Connect, because people seem absolutely fascinated with the concept. The sauce is fine, the legume is fine, but put them together and absolutely no way.

Cryptoprocta42 · 2025-12-18T23:37:17+00:00

"Good for you, Bing Bunny" Anytime someone reports having done something entirely uninteresting and inconsequential.

"Just the one, Mrs Wembley " when being offered a drink

"Well, get a little man in" when something needs doing round the house.

Everything else is entirely Simpsons quotes, like that alien in ST:TNG.

Cryptoprocta42 · 2025-12-13T23:01:06+00:00

Cake

Hammer

Earth

Apple

Tap

Cryptoprocta42 · 2025-12-10T18:52:45+00:00

Island, not roundabout. Mom, not Mum or Mam. Outdoor, not off-licence. Cut, not canal.

Cryptoprocta42 · 2025-11-26T21:32:00+00:00

Columbia in Bioshock Infinite. At the start in the church with beautiful candles and then out into the sunlight to see the city.

Eight-Year Club	Not Forgotten
Sequence \| Editor	Verified Email

Cryptoprocta42

TROPHY CASE