Any way to kill a crashed game process?

[reaverx]

...when i cant access the finder anymore...

 

[quiksan]

open a terminal window
type in:
top
that will run a program that shows you the processes running on your system, and using your resources.

now open another terminal window. o nthe first one, check to see the PID (process ID) of the game that you want to kill
in the NEW window, type kill [PID]

that will end it for you.

 

[Zammy-Sam]

why not alt+apple+esc? Or doesn't it work when the finder seems unaccessable?

 

[Cat]

If you cannot see or do anything on your own machine you might try to log in remotely and see what's going on (use ps or top and kill), but you need to have "allow remote login" enabled in System Preferences -> Sharing -> Services.

 

[Drizzt]

Try installing escapepod which let's you kill processes with a very familar key combination that you find on Windows. Get it at http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/14756

 

[Zammy-Sam]

reaverx, you still there?

 

[reaverx]

Thank you all very much, have been away for a while, i'll check it out when it happens next time. (doesn't happen too often;-) OS X rocks!

 

[Arden]

You don't have to open a new Terminal window to kill a process while top's running, just push Control-C.