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Unkillable full-screen game

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Mar 15, 20261753 views
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Problem

While playing Civilization V (most recently) and other games and apps (longer ago), occasionally one will not quit, causing me to have to force-restart my computer. After awhile of playing, sometimes the game locks up. (I cannot get out to quit the game, nor can I interact with the game at all with…

Error Output

PID   TT  STAT      TIME COMMAND
468   ??  ?E     0:00.00 (Civilization V)

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Fix for: Unkillable full-screen game

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A unkillable process is usually caused by one of two things, either the process is being traced by debugger, or (much more commonly) the process has a pending I/O request to some device that is stuck. In the latter case the culprit is typically a di…

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