Windows 10: Stand alone games not launching...

EVE online and Elder Scrolls online aren't launching properly. All my games in Steam have no issues. For some reason games outside of Steam and Microsoft games there is a glitch. The games try and load .... then nothing. It's weird. I just updated my motherboard recently and this is when it started. The games don't run at all... even going into their folders and launching directly still nothing happens.

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Launching games

Hi Wesley,

Windows 10 is gamer-friendly by design. If an issue like being unable to launch a game happens, it can be caused by outdated display driver or other factors that cause conflict when launching the app. For us to better assist you, we'd like to ask for additional
information. Please answer the following:

• What build and version of Windows 10 are you using?
• Are you getting an error message when launching the game?
• Have you made any changes to the settings or installed updates prior to this issue?
• What troubleshooting steps have you tried so far?
• What specific games are you having issues with?

We will wait for your response.

 

Unable to Launch Games such as Gears 4

I've been battling this issue for a while, and I am at my wits end. I am unable to launch ANY game from the Windows Store, when attempting a window will pop-up and go away, and that's it.

Troubleshooting steps performed:

• Reinstalled Windows (just did this a few days ago)
• Ran WSReset.exe
• Ran the Windows Troubleshooting tool.
• I've tried the turning off the Windows Update trick
• Changed my Gamertag in hopes maybe it would correct the issue. (which was a waste of $10)

I am not sure what else to do and I would really love to play Gears 4 on my computer... but as it stands it is impossible.

 

Games won't launch and run in background.

Hi,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community, we appreciate your interest in Windows 10.

Please do let us know with the following information for better assistance:

• What exactly do you mean by games does not run in the background?
• Which are the games you are trying to launch?
• Were you able to see any error code/ error notification while trying to launch the game?
• Have you tried any troubleshooting steps?

I would like to inform that the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable x86,
usually occupy 1 GB of the storage space.

I suggest you to run disk cleanup to free the memory: Free up drive space in Windows 10
and check.

Hope it helps. Reply to the post with an updated status of this issue and required information, we will be happy to assist you further.