Windows notifications crash my Steam games?

Jaiden Peters · Jan 2, 2022

Every time I try to play a game on Steam, I barely get 5 minutes into my game before it just crashes instantly and closes on its own. I always here a little notification ding (for windows 11) and it just crashes my game instantly and closes it automatically. Whenever I look through everything there is no post clarification or explanation to what happened, and nowhere does it tell me why anything went wrong. It will show I have no new notifications or issue pop-ups anywhere so it seems impossible for me to find out why it keeps doing this.

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Jesse E'

Hello, My name is Jesse. I'm an Independent Advisor and a member of the Microsoft community and I'd love to assist you today.

First check if Windows is up to date. Make sure your time and date are correct on your windows settings.

There is an "Optional Updates" button in the smallest print. Kindly check and go to driver, and download the existing drivers needed. Then restart, plug in the Receiver. Go to the same optional updates, and updated the driver.

Make sure that this is turned on "Receive updates for other Microsoft products when you update Windows" under Advanced Options

Check for store updates: Start menu, select Microsoft Store > More > Downloads and updates > Get updates.

If Updating the system doesn't help, I'll suggest you run a scan to check for problems and repair them.

Press Windows + R, type cmd, and press Ctrl + Shift + Enter to run Command Prompt as administrator. Next type sfc /scannow in Command Prompt window, and press Enter to start to scan and repair corrupt system files in Windows 10

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paulfearn

I contacted Steam and for the last 3 months I have tried everything from reinstalling both Steam and Windows 11 and sending the crash files but they say the problem is with Windows

1664lover

Yes me too, I purchased the steam version, despite my machine being up to spec the game crashed every 10 minutes so I asked steam for a refund, I uninstalled it in windows setting but I'm also 94Gb down on ssd space.

jakedadawg

ive now refunded the steam purchase and downloaded through windows store, no changes and still crashes

DorkSaber

I was hoping that too,, especially since the internet is full of accounts of this same issue. But I found a solution on my own. I purchased Halo Infinite from Steam and cancelled my Xbox Game Pass account. Works flawlessly, launches every time, never crashes. If Microsoft wants my money directly they can fix their Xbox for Windows platform. Until then they can pay the Steam tax.

Windows notifications crash my Steam games?