Windows 7: Games crashing without error messages.

So I have been having troubles with my games recently I have no idea why it is happening but every time I try starting up my games such as Star Wars titles because they are on sale on steam so I picked them up, for Star Wars Battlefront 2 I get to the main menu pick new game and then it says play training I select it and it goes black and takes me to my desktop and there is no error message displayed, and for Star Wars Empire at War it gets passed the game logo's lucas arts ect.. and then it goes black and again no error message, any idea's on what is causing this?

Check the event viewer.
Alternatively, you can swiftly check if there are errors by going to action center, maintenance, reliability history.