You try to open Chrome. Nothing. File Explorer? The window draws itself slowly, line by line, like a hand sketching a coffin. You navigate to Program Files (x86)/NVIDIA Corporation/PhysX . The folder is there. You open it. Inside, a single file: . Its size is 0 bytes. Its modified date is today. 3:17 AM.
Your hand reaches for the mouse. You’re not sure if you’re the one moving it. The cursor hovers over OK. Below it, in letters too small to notice unless you’re looking for them: physx system software a newer or same version is present
Do you wish to be overwritten?
Ahead, a figure. It’s wearing your face, but not your expression. Its eyes are two progress bars: one stuck at 47%, the other cycling 0% to 100% over and over. Its mouth opens—not to speak, but to display text in crisp Segoe UI: You try to open Chrome