Twitch causes hardware crash

When I watch Twitch on Chrome on my MacBook Pro 2015, from time to time my entire system just freezes and glitches. Trackpad will be dead and the last sound of the Twitch stream just repeats itself leading me to have to hard reset with the power button. I'm guessing this is a hardware issue?

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Posted on Jun 8, 2020 1:22 PM

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2 replies

raina_b22

Community Specialist

Jun 10, 2020 11:24 AM in response to linguy

Hello Linguy,

It sounds like when watching twitch with Google Chrome, the app freezes and the device becomes non responsive. Check out this article for some helpful support.

If an app freezes or quits unexpectedly on Mac

If this doesn't answer your question please provide more information.

Does this occur in Safari?

What macOS are you using?

When did this begin?

Cheers!

linguy Author

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8 points

Jun 10, 2020 1:04 PM in response to raina_b22

I have not tried this is Safari. I am using Catalina 10.15.5. This has happened for a few months now.

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