Have you ever bought a game on PC and not been able to play it?
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...)
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...)
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.
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 whenrazer17 said:
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.
Oh yeah, often enough. Serves me right for buying older PC titles (and some newer ones).
StarLancer, y u no work?!
StarLancer, y u no work?!
Saints fuckin' Row 2. I liked the Third one, and since everyone was saying "The second one was waay better" I thought I might give it a try.
It was basically unplayable. I don't really know how to describe the problem, but I had something to do with the game overheating because of some miss with the coding, so it started to "lagg" like you wouldn't believe.
Which sucks, 'cause from what little I played it seemed like a fun game, and you could customize your character in more ways than in Saints row 3.
It was basically unplayable. I don't really know how to describe the problem, but I had something to do with the game overheating because of some miss with the coding, so it started to "lagg" like you wouldn't believe.
Which sucks, 'cause from what little I played it seemed like a fun game, and you could customize your character in more ways than in Saints row 3.
Back in the day it was a chore to get video games to run right. Anyone who understands the term "boot disk" knows exactly what I'm talking about. If you don't, consider yourself lucky.
I started playing Mirrors Edge a couple years back and got stuck at one point on level 2 or so where I couldn't proceed due to breaking class causing a massive amount of slowdown and I couldn't make a vital wall-run/jump to proceed. Mind you, at the time, I had a somewhat modern computer and the game had already been out for a good couple of years. I tried playing it again recently and it worked this time.
I never finished AC:Revelations. I was about 8 hours into the game and had a mostly full leveled group of assasins. Then one day Uplay(which is required to play) doesn't let me log on. After trying a bunch of other things, I uninstalled and reinstalled Uplay. Somehow all my saves were lost along with it. I was so pissed that I didn't bother trying to replay the game. I just watched the ending cutscenes and the remaining Altair bits on Youtube so I could see how the story ended.
I started playing Mirrors Edge a couple years back and got stuck at one point on level 2 or so where I couldn't proceed due to breaking class causing a massive amount of slowdown and I couldn't make a vital wall-run/jump to proceed. Mind you, at the time, I had a somewhat modern computer and the game had already been out for a good couple of years. I tried playing it again recently and it worked this time.
I never finished AC:Revelations. I was about 8 hours into the game and had a mostly full leveled group of assasins. Then one day Uplay(which is required to play) doesn't let me log on. After trying a bunch of other things, I uninstalled and reinstalled Uplay. Somehow all my saves were lost along with it. I was so pissed that I didn't bother trying to replay the game. I just watched the ending cutscenes and the remaining Altair bits on Youtube so I could see how the story ended.
It took me a while to figure out how to get Thief 2 to work properly since movies would not play and the game would randomly crash but I managed to figure it out with help of the internet. Burnout Paradise crashed on me every second time I tried to run it. I managed to beat it but those crashes on start up were very annoying and I never did figure out what caused them.
Games have warning about not working on laptops because they have, in general, worse hardware than on desktops. There is nothing inherent to laptops that would prevent the game running.DementedSheep said:
Saint's Row 2 is a legendarily bad PC port, probably even worse than the GTA IV port, virtually everyone had problems with it because the developer the port was farmed out to was massively incompetent and basically copied and pasted the Xbox 360 version onto PC without ironing out any of the issues that would bring about. It's only playable with third party mods that fix the game's numerous bugs and performance issues.Movitz said:
I personally haven't run into games that outright don't work, though some of them, particularly older ones may need some tweaking to run with newer OSes. It probably helps that I don't buy a huge number of games on Day One, and by the time I get to playing them, most of the issues have been fixed.
Oh yeah, many times, and it was back when I still didn't know jack about all the different possible errors, and they all fucking happened in the one year! The first one I remember was Red Alert, and it took me a week before I could get it to work perfectly. Fucking divers and direct X issues, And a whole lot of other shit
Still prefer gaming on the computer though. It always feels more... complete.
Still prefer gaming on the computer though. It always feels more... complete.
Yep, and those would be Lego Island 1,2 and Legoland. Thing is, those games don't work really at all on modern computers. They are not supported by DOSBox or Virtual PC, and worst of all they are 32-Bit games but with 16-bit installers...never understood that logic at all.
I Bought Tropico 4 on disc when it was released but i dident have internet so the game wouldent let me install it