Have you ever bought a game on PC and not been able to play it?
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The Force Unleashed 2 comes to mind. I wasn't able to play that for a while, until it randomly worked one day. It still freezes during a certain cutscene though, so that's annoying. Assassin's Creed 3 also crashes all of the time and has many bugs that force me to ctrl+alt+delete. In the end I wasn't too bummed out since those games were both considerably worse than the previous games in their series' for the most part.
Yup, you just have to live with it with PC gaming. It happens more often with older games, but it happens with newer ones too. I've given up hope of ever getting Bioshock 2 Minerva's Den to work, because it's just not worth spending hours trying to fix a game I'll beat in several hours.
I wasn't able to play the witcher 2 or darksiders 2 on my old machine, both of them would stutter horrendously, but it wasn't an FPS problem. I eventually found a fix for darksiders 2 on that PC and the witcher 2 worked fine on my new pc (old pc was probably just too old cpu wise).
Everyone has problems with games on PC, most of it can be fixed by googling the error you get. But sometimes you can't fix it and it really sucks. If you're really worried about it in the future, only buy games on sale for very cheap so you're not out much if it doesn't work.
Everyone has problems with games on PC, most of it can be fixed by googling the error you get. But sometimes you can't fix it and it really sucks. If you're really worried about it in the future, only buy games on sale for very cheap so you're not out much if it doesn't work.
I've had something stupid like that happen before, I can't remember the game but there was a patch that came through for it and it didn't delete a certain file in the main games directory (it was an old file, but the exe kept trying to go to the backup old file rather than the new one) and the game's error on startup WOULD NOT describe anything like that, so it took me hours to figure it out after being on google and random forums, a simple delete of that file made everything run flawlessly.Signa said:
Also, the only game to date that I can't run is syndicate, it would crash(not even open really) after trying to run the game, I googled shit tons of forums and whatnot but the answers I kept finding were everyone having the same issue, and EA not giving a shit to fix it. Fortunately I spent 5 bucks on the game so wasn't too big of a deal, but I'd at least like to be able to give the campaign a run through.
Specs can sometimes be useful, in the case of Battlefront II it might be a hardware combination that is causing it to not run for example as I can run it fine on my newish PC. It is not that you bought the wrong thing or anything you could predict, just sometimes certain games go apeshit when they encounter a hardware combination they don't like.Shadow-Phoenix said:
Oh yeah, mostly from games with an 16-bit installer. I think Red Faction had that problem, as well as Blood: One Whole Unit. Some group made a custom RF launcher, and you can probably code a new installer or extract the files yourself. I however am terrible at coding, and there really aren't any tutorials on how to extract files from an installation file and where to put which in which directory. Not to mention the registry values. It's funny how I know what's wrong and theoretically know how to fix those types of things without actually being able to.
EDIT: Oh and I think it was Halo that couldn't detect any RAM due to age issues. I can't remember the exact cause, but it was pretty interesting being told you don't have enough RAM to play the first Halo when you're sitting there with 8 gigs.
EDIT: Oh and I think it was Halo that couldn't detect any RAM due to age issues. I can't remember the exact cause, but it was pretty interesting being told you don't have enough RAM to play the first Halo when you're sitting there with 8 gigs.
Poker Night at the Inventory 2. Steam said it might not work with integrated nVidea cards. I gambled and lost.
I bought Dark Souls on PC. It was a great mistake. It's not unplayable per se, it's just unbearable to play because of broken controls.
I'm not sure I've ever run into a game that I couldn't play at all, but I've definitely come across numerous games that just don't run properly. Sometimes it's performance issues, sometimes it's input problems, sometimes it's audio, etc.
curious, can you play the single player campaign game types at all, or is it only when you try to start a multiplayer match of some sort? (just trying to help, battlefront II is one of my all time favorite games ^_^ )Shadow-Phoenix said:
Usually I can find some way to fix it. The only exception was a wineskin version of KOTOR 2. I got it to work once, and every time after that it wouldn't open.
Yep. Off the top of my head comes Homeworld 2. There's a bug that causes savegames loaded up with processors over, I think, 800 Ghz to have serious lag issues that makes the game horrendous to try and play.krazykidd said:
I've never seen a fix for it, so that's one reason I'm excited to see Gearbox remake the games for modern systems.
Yes, several separate occasions, several different reasons, and several different outcomes.
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First occasion was years ago when I had an off the shelf HP laptop. Fine for general computing and normal applications like Microsoft Office, not fine for more demanding videogames. Since then I've gone through several different laptops each an order of magnitude above the predecessor finally culminating in my current gaming PC tower with a pair of SLI 780 graphics cards. Suffice to say the games I tried to get for my original laptop wouldn't really run. Now however, that is no longer a problem. So on a PC it is very possible to get a game that you can't play because your computer can't run it. Since I've rectified that.
Second occasion, bad code. I got Halo 2 for Windows Vista, this is a game that was ported EXCLUSIVELY to Vista, they even went so far as to break the game so it could not be installed on Windows XP. Suffice to say it didn't want to install on any of my newer computers. However I have since created a work around to allow it to be installed onto any Windows 8/8.1 machine. Simply copy the files from the DVD onto the HDD/SSD, then install from the copy on the HDD to another location on the HDD, the trick is by installing it from an internal HDD you bypass the install permission system and allow the install to finish. So yes, BAD CODE (or purposefully broken code)can cause a PC game to not work, but (most) PC gamers are clever and there is usually a work around available (sometimes from The PC gaming help wiki [http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Home]).
The final scenario I've encountered is to do with EA (yup...). This is because EA tied an EA account to my Xbox LIVE account. And then my Xbox account got hacked, with it my EA account. And they were then able to get access to some of the CD keys. One of them was for Battlefield Bad Company 2. They then decided to not rectify the situation by either giving me a new CD KEY or something. There is good reason that PC gamers fucking hate EA. I still can't play this game, and there is nothing Valve (steam), or I can do about it because EA refuses to help.
Commence dump:
First occasion was years ago when I had an off the shelf HP laptop. Fine for general computing and normal applications like Microsoft Office, not fine for more demanding videogames. Since then I've gone through several different laptops each an order of magnitude above the predecessor finally culminating in my current gaming PC tower with a pair of SLI 780 graphics cards. Suffice to say the games I tried to get for my original laptop wouldn't really run. Now however, that is no longer a problem. So on a PC it is very possible to get a game that you can't play because your computer can't run it. Since I've rectified that.
Second occasion, bad code. I got Halo 2 for Windows Vista, this is a game that was ported EXCLUSIVELY to Vista, they even went so far as to break the game so it could not be installed on Windows XP. Suffice to say it didn't want to install on any of my newer computers. However I have since created a work around to allow it to be installed onto any Windows 8/8.1 machine. Simply copy the files from the DVD onto the HDD/SSD, then install from the copy on the HDD to another location on the HDD, the trick is by installing it from an internal HDD you bypass the install permission system and allow the install to finish. So yes, BAD CODE (or purposefully broken code)can cause a PC game to not work, but (most) PC gamers are clever and there is usually a work around available (sometimes from The PC gaming help wiki [http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Home]).
The final scenario I've encountered is to do with EA (yup...). This is because EA tied an EA account to my Xbox LIVE account. And then my Xbox account got hacked, with it my EA account. And they were then able to get access to some of the CD keys. One of them was for Battlefield Bad Company 2. They then decided to not rectify the situation by either giving me a new CD KEY or something. There is good reason that PC gamers fucking hate EA. I still can't play this game, and there is nothing Valve (steam), or I can do about it because EA refuses to help.
I used to back when I was a child and ignorant of how PCs worked. I thought of them as consoles with keyboards for a controller, in the sense that the idea that a game may not be able to run on my current hardware, never crossed my mind. Since then...well I still don't look at PC requirements but that's because I upgrade my computer any time I realize I can no longer run a game on max settings. The only time I recently had an issue was when I bought Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines. Even with the unofficial patch, crashing was so consistent that I don't even try to play it anymore. Serves me right for buying an older game through Steam, instead of GOG. If anyone else has a solution to the game crashing within the first minutes, I'd love to hear it. I had a similar problem with KOTOR and spend hours scouring Google for an answer. I found one eventually but then ended up hating KOTOR, so it probably wasn't worth the effort
Yeah...Go to Half Priced Books...Take a chance on some Win XP games...Some don't want to run on Windows 7.
Diablo III thanks to server load issues, as most MMO games have on the first few days. Once Blizzard sorted its shit out and spun up more servers, no problem.
Beyond the obvious publisher being lazy and having a shitty launch issues, no, not one issue in the 15 or so years of gaming I've done. Closest would be trying to install a game from 10 years back on a modern computer, which of course ran into a couple of issues, but nothing that "Compatibility mode" couldn't fix.
Probably helps that I've always had a pretty good computer, and upgrade it every 5 years or so [Though these days I'm just going incremental upgrades every year as opposed to a full revamp every 5]. Honestly had more problems with console games than PC games, usually due to the damn things overheating.
Beyond the obvious publisher being lazy and having a shitty launch issues, no, not one issue in the 15 or so years of gaming I've done. Closest would be trying to install a game from 10 years back on a modern computer, which of course ran into a couple of issues, but nothing that "Compatibility mode" couldn't fix.
Probably helps that I've always had a pretty good computer, and upgrade it every 5 years or so [Though these days I'm just going incremental upgrades every year as opposed to a full revamp every 5]. Honestly had more problems with console games than PC games, usually due to the damn things overheating.