#1 original report
Although it seems somewhat random, the majority of the time that starmade is closed by pressing alt-f4, the javaw.exe process remains in the task manager. This prevents the game from being launched again in steam until the process is ended manually, as steam detects the game as still running, despite it being closed. Unknown whether the process will self-terminate after a long period of time--as of present, it does not within 5 minutes of the game closing.
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#2
started it ten times and killed it with alt+F4 each time without a problem.
not using Steam though
I do not know what or why that is happening.
And i cant reproduce it.
But the logs show some Nullpointer GL exception in the closing process of the game .. maybe that is enough as a clue what causes it.
```
[2015-03-18 22:46:18] !!!! THIS DISPLAYS THE STACKTRACE OF A REGULAR GL FRAME EXIT
[2015-03-18 22:46:18] org.schema.schine.graphicsengine.core.FinishedFrameException
[2015-03-18 22:46:18] at obfuscated.amg.a(SourceFile:352)
[2015-03-18 22:46:18] at obfuscated.fK.exit(SourceFile:451)
[2015-03-18 22:46:18] at obfuscated.amg.a(SourceFile:229)
[2015-03-18 22:46:18] at obfuscated.amg.e(SourceFile:781)
[2015-03-18 22:46:18] at obfuscated.amg.a(SourceFile:1166)
[2015-03-18 22:46:18] at obfuscated.B.h(SourceFile:2243)
[2015-03-18 22:46:18] at obfuscated.Iv.run(SourceFile:76)
[2015-03-18 22:46:18] at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
[2015-03-18 22:46:18] java.lang.NullPointerException
[2015-03-18 22:46:18] at obfuscated.cR.a(SourceFile:123)
[2015-03-18 22:46:18] at obfuscated.cO.a(SourceFile:284)
[2015-03-18 22:46:18] at obfuscated.gl.a(SourceFile:1644)
[2015-03-18 22:46:18] at obfuscated.B.update(SourceFile:2569)
[2015-03-18 22:46:18] at obfuscated.amg.a(SourceFile:1174)
[2015-03-18 22:46:18] at obfuscated.amg.a(SourceFile:1166)
[2015-03-18 22:46:18] at obfuscated.B.h(SourceFile:2243)
[2015-03-18 22:46:18] at obfuscated.Iv.run(SourceFile:76)
[2015-03-18 22:46:18] at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
[2015-03-18 22:46:18] [BUILDMODEDRAWER] NullPointerException: null
[2015-03-18 22:46:18] [GLFRAME] THROWN: class java.lang.NullPointerException Now Printing StackTrace
[2015-03-18 22:46:18] java.lang.NullPointerException
[2015-03-18 22:46:18] at obfuscated.cR.a(SourceFile:123)
[2015-03-18 22:46:18] at obfuscated.cO.a(SourceFile:828)
[2015-03-18 22:46:18] at obfuscated.bS.a(SourceFile:414)
[2015-03-18 22:46:18] at obfuscated.cR.a(SourceFile:265)
[2015-03-18 22:46:18] at obfuscated.bS.a(SourceFile:414)
[2015-03-18 22:46:18] at obfuscated.cJ.a(SourceFile:1475)
[2015-03-18 22:46:18] at obfuscated.bS.a(SourceFile:414)
[2015-03-18 22:46:18] at obfuscated.cI.a(SourceFile:535)
[2015-03-18 22:46:18] at obfuscated.bS.a(SourceFile:414)
[2015-03-18 22:46:18] at obfuscated.cv.a(SourceFile:370)
[2015-03-18 22:46:18] at obfuscated.bS.a(SourceFile:414)
[2015-03-18 22:46:18] at obfuscated.B.update(SourceFile:2837)
[2015-03-18 22:46:18] at obfuscated.amg.a(SourceFile:1174)
[2015-03-18 22:46:18] at obfuscated.amg.a(SourceFile:1166)
[2015-03-18 22:46:18] at obfuscated.B.h(SourceFile:2243)
[2015-03-18 22:46:18] at obfuscated.Iv.run(SourceFile:76)
[2015-03-18 22:46:18] at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
[2015-03-18 22:46:18] [GLFRAME] THROWN: class java.lang.NullPointerExceptionPrinting StackTrace DONE
[2015-03-18 22:46:19] [AUDIO] Cleaning up sound system
[2015-03-18 22:46:19] SoundSystem shutting down...
[2015-03-18 22:46:19] Author: Paul Lamb, www.paulscode.com
[2015-03-18 22:46:19] [CLIENT] CLIENT SHUTDOWN. Dumping client data!
```