when ever I try to run a game not 10 seconds into it everything freezes and I can't even force quit I either wait for it to restart itself and get bugged audio or I hold the power button and shut down my laptop it started happening after I updated to macOS Monterey I've also erased all content on this laptop (twice now to see if it would fix the problem) but nothing I would appreciate all help, many thanks in advance
MacBook Air (2020 or later)
nope would not matter. these links provide some troubleshooting steps
About Secure Boot, Reset NVRAM or PRAM on your Mac, How to reset the SMC of your Mac
I am wondering if those games have been updated to run with the M1 processors.
I doubt that would matter as I have the early 2020 MacBook Air (intel) these crashes have never happened with Big Sur but when I updated to macOS Monterey they started and when I updated to 12.1 it got worse
the first one was a bit funky as it did solve the problem but disabled the wifi on my laptop and once I reset it it stopped working again (lowered security to medium) the 2nd one did literally nothing (I think) cuz I didn't hear the 2nd startup sound however the 3rd one after doing the power button thing (didn't reset the smc just did the power button thing) the game I was using as a test (people Playground) was working don't know if the performance was affected but its still good (consistent with past tests) the issue is as good as solved so I will not reset my smc unless I need to thank you so much for the help I hope people with the same issue find this as this was a real pain to fix
Is it the one game or any game?
certain games. I can run games like vic 2 (through crossover) just fine but other games like some on itch war thunder and a ton of other games cause the issue as well
wifi failing was actually my wifi's fault not my laptop and performance has not changed confirmed by several tests
macOS crashing every time I try to run a game
