Windows 10 crash, resume from before crash?

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Windows 10 crash, resume from before crash?

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So, a really weird thing just happened to me... I was playing Payday 2, when my screen started flickering then went off. I couldn't get it to go back on, and simply clicking the power button didnt switch off the laptop, so I help down the power button to force it to go off

Walked away, did some other things for 15min, came back, switched on my laptop, entered password... I was back in game. Exactly where I left off. It wasn't in a menu or anything, it was in the action...

What happened??? My google chrome and everything was as I left it... I held down the power button, which doesn't make it sleep, or shut down, it just kills it, right? And then it just resumes, where it left off... I don't know how to interpret this

I recently started using Windows 10... Is this a Windows 10 feature? If so... What the hell? Does it know when it's about to crash and dump the ram to hard drive, or what? I tried simply pulling the plug to replicate the results, but that didn't work... So, I have no idea what happened. It's not constantly saving ram, so does it just do this when it knows it's about to die? If so... How? What... I don't know whats going on...
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Maybe it ran out of battery and automatically hibernated? And was far enough by the time you held down the power button to be able to resume?
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Did you hear the harddrive "click" before it turned off?
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I don't remember any clicks, and it was plugged in. I heard the game sounds while the screen was off, so I don't think it went into hibernating... And I guess I should add, it has no battery life, so if the power cable comes out, it dies immediately...
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I have windows 10 and truth be told, while I love it, I also notice that sometimes my screen goes blank for a few seconds, then it flickers back (so not near as bad as yours). it's weird but I'm not sure if it's related to windows 10... my laptop does overheat...
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It sounds like bad GPU drivers and/or overheating components.

Remember that Windows 10 shutdown = hibernate, if you don't disable 'fast boot'.
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I'm guessing it was overheating. My laptop has done this crash before...

And I'm okay with shut down = hibernate.
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