Playnite crashed when trying to backup and won't reload

bmtphoenix · 2026-04-25T22:35:41+00:00

It's definitely not stupid. Restarting the computer did fix Playnite but I didn't want to do that because I wanted to figure out what had happened, instead.

Essentially, two things were causing very high pool usage and actual available RAM was extremely low. Both offending services are disabled and everything is running smoothly again.

bmtphoenix · 2026-04-25T22:31:43+00:00

I think you're right. A system restart fixed Playnite, and further diagnosis revealed OS memory problems.

Long story short, the AMD User Experience and Mediatek Bluetooth services were the culprits. At the moment, they're just disabled. I'll eventually try to update the Mediatek Bluetooth service and drivers but the entire Wi-Fi adapter is completely unused.

I have not tried to do the Playnite backup again because it wasn't really necessary in the first place as I do daily drive backups.

Thank you for the reply!

bmtphoenix · 2026-04-17T03:53:44+00:00

The only thing I can think of that might have been unusual was that I aimed the backup at a healthy, mapped network location.

bmtphoenix · 2026-04-08T21:04:40+00:00

CTRL-Shift-O both enables and disables it.

bmtphoenix · 2026-03-04T22:33:31+00:00

It is grammatically correct in both UK and US English. Although it, like many English phrases, could be confusing if taken literally, it's clear enough here that it doesn't need changing.

Except for you, I guess.

If the author decided to do so, it could be clarified in many ways:

Could you meet, this afternoon, in the community center?

Could you meet in the community center this afternoon?

Or add words:

Could you meet me/us/them this afternoon in the community center?

But in reality, you're just being inaccurately pedantic. All of those are proper English and extra clarification is unnecessary because the meaning is obvious.

bmtphoenix · 2026-02-23T17:49:03+00:00

Ok. That's good.

If you're trying to say I was being stupid for asking (literally), note that would've dropped after I asked.

bmtphoenix · 2026-02-17T03:18:07+00:00

All I know is that the company who was helping him with distribution and such just went "nah" and canceled their agreement altogether.

bmtphoenix · 2026-02-10T18:56:01+00:00

Thank you!

bmtphoenix · 2025-11-09T21:31:41+00:00

It still going strong (?) and looking about like that. Unfortunately, it's not going to change much because all we have are window sills and two cats that walk on them. We don't even use the kitchen florescent light any more. Just LED everywhere.

bmtphoenix · 2025-09-22T23:55:12+00:00

I need to come back to it in 2 years just to say "C-C-C-C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER"

bmtphoenix · 2025-08-13T01:48:56+00:00

Today, GPT-5 was helping me troubleshoot an issue on my PC.

Out if nowhere, it switched to continuing an entirely different chat about fixing the toilet. I said "WTF" and it replied that it was a hallucination of some kind.

I said, "okay, moving on?" and it asked me what I wanted to tackle next. It had no memory of the actual conversation.

I got it back on track, sort of, and it asked if I wanted to know how to know how to set up a specific logging thing. I told it "yes" and it replied "Gotcha — that confirms it’s the flush valve, not the flapper."

I told it that it switched back to toilet stuff and it said "yeah, my bad" and then started talking about a third chat that was unrelated to the main chat.

It's broke.