Have you ever bought a game on PC and not been able to play it?

TelHybrid

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I bought Max Payne 1 & 2 a few months back. I can't run them on my laptop due to incompatibility with my graphics card. I think the latest AMD drivers are the problem, but rolling back is futile as the oldest drivers the card supports are still too new for it.

I was just glad I only wasted about £1 each on them.
 

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gmaverick019 said:
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 ^_^ )
It happens right as I click to begin the match (online/offline/even LAN with friends) after selecting my maps and then it crashes back to the desktop, like I said I've got a friend rocking 5 year old hardware that's able to run the game fine and a friend who's sporting at least 2 years hardware with a GTX 680 in his while I have a 660TI PE in mine.

The one type solution that seems to be going around the internet is having to have a mic plugged in or disabling it but me and my friends don't really do that and that can't be an issue for me if it's not with them, the logic in the solution to a problem I can't have doesn't make sense to me.
 

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SIMS 3!!!

they had a sale on steam so i grabbed as much of that thing as possible... only to find out after buying and installing all that shenanigans, the damn thing crashes FOR NO REASON right after i load a world... i remake a new one, play for a good while, turn it off, try to play again the next day only for it to CRASH FOR NO REASON soon as the world loads... i can't even get attatched to my sims because i get to only play with them once, so i've got all this sims stuff on my steam account and can't really use it -.- lame~

and trust, i've looked up every which way to 'fix' this and squat... rawr~
 
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Shadow-Phoenix said:
gmaverick019 said:
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 ^_^ )
It happens right as I click to begin the match (online/offline/even LAN with friends) after selecting my maps and then it crashes back to the desktop, like I said I've got a friend rocking 5 year old hardware that's able to run the game fine and a friend who's sporting at least 2 years hardware with a GTX 680 in his while I have a 660TI PE in mine.

The one type solution that seems to be going around the internet is having to have a mic plugged in or disabling it but me and my friends don't really do that and that can't be an issue for me if it's not with them, the logic in the solution to a problem I can't have doesn't make sense to me.
hmm odd...i've had some goofy solutions to things before that made games run flawlessly, and i'm assuming this is the case here. have you tried disabling your CPU cores down to 2 when playing the game? have you ran the game in admin mode, have you ran it in windowed mode (these are all stupid requests, but seriously, each of them has gotten a game to work for me flawlessly.)
 

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Star Wars Battlefront II continues to not function properly on Steam. It has been on there for over two years and countless people have sent in requests for Valve to fix whatever is preventing us from doing the shootbangs and the lightsabre chops and such, but to date they haven't given much of a response.
 

Imre Csete

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I've bought a Star Wars game collection couple of years ago (mainly for KotOR and Republic Commando), but Jedi Outcast won't accept the disc and is not starting. I've played that game to death ages ago, so I did't really dig in to find solutions, but that's the only one.

Alpha Protocol had some stupid issues thanks to the godawful DRM, good thing I save crucial patches for games, since its official mirror site is gone now. Hooray for long term planning, eh Sega?
 

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Had problems with the original Fallout games, probably due to the paradox of my laptop being both too new and too shitty to handle it. It usually crashed before I could even leave the starting cave, and in that time the graphics were glitched all to fuck.

Oddly, I'm not having any problems running Planescape: Torment, which was released around the same time, has about the same level of graphics, and I'm like 99.9% sure is actually on the same engine.

I'unno, I'm as close to computer-illiterate as it's possible to be for someone my age.
 

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Yes, most of the time I've been able to fix it or find a patch. I'm not that tech savvy but fortunately the internet exist. Couldn't fix thief 3 though. It was my own fault since it dose actually have a warning about not working on laptops but I didn't check the requirements first.
 

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Master_of_Oldskool said:
Had problems with the original Fallout games, probably due to the paradox of my laptop being both too new and too shitty to handle it. It usually crashed before I could even leave the starting cave, and in that time the graphics were glitched all to fuck.

Oddly, I'm not having any problems running Planescape: Torment, which was released around the same time, has about the same level of graphics, and I'm like 99.9% sure is actually on the same engine.

I'unno, I'm as close to computer-illiterate as it's possible to be for someone my age.
Have you tried installing http://falloutmods.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout_Fixt ?
 

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When I was a kid I had Final Fantasy VII on the PC. It ran really slowly but since it was a JRPG it didn't bother me. What DID bother me is how it kept crashing after the first Jenova fight...it took me years to actually see what Casa Del Soul looked like and a couple more to complete that game.
 

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Yes. I picked up Dark Souls on Steam, only to be met with DRM that demanded I acquire accounts on multiple Microsoft websites or I wouldn't be allowed to save. I could never figure out how to get it to work.

When I first got BioShock and Painkiller, they wouldn't start up.

F.E.A.R. also freezes up when I get to this section with a bunch of ninja-like enemies. I've tried going all the way down to minimal settings and nothing works. I haven't got the foggiest idea why this keeps happening.

I remember a long time ago, I'd try to play Frogger 2: Swampy's Revenge, but it would always do this weird minimizing-crash thingy in the third level (counting the tutorial) where the game would minimize itself, the music would keep playing, and I'd be completely unable to pull it back up again.

I tried to play Loadout and when the actual game part is reduced to a jet-black screen with teensy little "windows" of something. As a matter of fact, Dark Souls greeted me to a completely jet-black screen when the actual gameplay started.

Star Wars: Battlefront would always freeze up whenever I got to the class-selection screen and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic would do a minimizing-crash thing similar to Frogger 2: Swampy's Revenge when I got to an escape pod and it showed a cutscene of my character sleeping restlessly.

Assassins Creed and Tomb Raider (reboot) are both lagging to an insane degree. Especially Tomb Raider.

And while it doesn't keep me from playing the game exactly, Serious Sam 3: BFE has been doing this weird thing where, at random and completely unpredictable points, it will freeze up... sort of. All visuals screech to a halt as it seems to rapidly flash between the last two frames while the game keeps going. I hit W, S, A, and D, and I can hear footsteps. I press "Escape" and I can hear the pause music. I click and there's a gunshot (or other type of attack). But if I minimize the game with Alt+Tab and pull it back up again, it'll go back to normal... for a while. But first, it'll run really choppily for about a minute as the framerate gradually climbs to a steady level. On some levels, this never happens (thankfully, The Guardian of Time is safe!) but on others, it can get pretty bothersome. Especially Broken Wings. Without fail, as soon as the call at the start of the level ends, it will always, without exception, do that weird flashy-freeze thing. That's gotta be the worst of it, though. It "flash-freezes" the most on that third level in the game. It doesn't ever seem to do this in Survival Mode, but it does still happen in multiplayer. Or at least Co-op.
 

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Hasn't happened to me since Rainbow Six: Vegas and that was only because I was too stupid to realize my video card didn't have shader model 3.0.

Also I have Google and a working mouse and keyboard...
 

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Yes, well, sort of. I redownloaded Crysis and Crysis Warhead again because I upgraded my rig to have a better graphics card, more RAM and a better CPU since I first played it on my first build, but when I tried to play it, it had a black screen and eventually crashed. I'm sure that there is a fix somewhere but I couldn't be bothered, so I just deleted it and moved on. Hell, there are probably a load of games that I own that don't work, but none in my recent memory.
 

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I bought Dirt 2 from Gamefly can't get that shit working, not really bothered either. Kane & Lynch refuses to setup properly on steam probably something to do with GWFL, it's probably for the best anyway. Also on sort of related note, I can't get Call of Juarez to work anymore because they added UPlay DRM(which I think, wasn't on when I bought it) on steam and I forgot my username and pass haha. Come to think of it, it's kind of like the universe doesn't want me to play shit/mediocre games. Hail GabeN!(just joking, fuck that "master race" shit).
 

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I've had two, in my time: Dark Souls and LA Noir. I could fix both, but both of those require getting an actually DECENT PC, which I simply cannot afford, since I only possess a somewhat mediocre laptop.
 

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Before I got a gaming PC, I had a couple of games that my laptop couldn't run, but that was par for the course, I kind of thought that might happen.

On my PC, though, the only game I've come across so far is Dragon Age Origins, which first used to crash when trying to create a female character. Fixed that issue, but now it still crashes every few minutes, so I've kind of given up on it.
 

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I have a few games that didn't run when I launched them for the first time. If the problem is power, I usually mess with graphics levels and reduce the resolution to 1280x720 to get it working at a level where I have a good balance between fidelity and frame rate.

Other games can be more difficult, like Fallout 3 which always has some new problem to get around. First I couldn't get to the main menu, then I couldn't start a game, now walking around causes a crash. Still I'm making progress, and the trick is patience - partly for your computer, and partly for endless useless posts on internet help threads.
 

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Burnout: Paradise through Humble Bundle...

On that day, I found out the limits to my new laptop... (i.e. The only game I can play via Steam is Skullgirls... and that's not including the flash and/or VN games I add to my Steam shortcut list...)
 

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Simple answer: The Witcher. More elaborate answer: I bought into the hype on this one so I had to try it out. My rig at the time just barely met the min requirements. So actually playing the game created all kinds of lag when more than 3 characters were on screen at one time. But even with the lag I got a big enough taste to realize this wasn't the game for me. Entirely too much preparation involved in going into each, and every, fight. It seemed like a really terrible way to extend the game's playtime.
razer17 said:
On my PC, though, the only game I've come across so far is Dragon Age Origins, which first used to crash when trying to create a female character. Fixed that issue, but now it still crashes every few minutes, so I've kind of given up on it.
There are ways to keep DA:O from crashing quite so often, although it will still likely crash after a couple hours, and if not, a memory leak will eventually force the game to seize up and stop altogether. But even with these problems, the game's completely worth it if for no other reason than to see character interaction like when
you visit the dwarf city of Orzammar and if you stretch out the faction quests and play them against each other, Leliana eventually wisens up to your manipulations, which gains her approval.
 

GundamSentinel

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Oh yeah, often enough. Serves me right for buying older PC titles (and some newer ones).

StarLancer, y u no work?! :mad: