PC Game Compatibility Disapointlment

[willsham45]

Its quite common place for PC gaming. You buy a game, your really excited about it you then get it home, install it and then it either does not start or it does but it does not play 100% right. The Game is right but unfortunately the game is just too demanding for your rig.

What games have you bought in the past to find this?

When I first got GTA vice city, my rig could not really handle it, It would run OK but after a while it would slow down...cause at the time I thought it was meant to do that. look hours to get to a save point.
Star wars jedi outcast was another, was really looking forward to this one but it did not play out right, compatibility seamed right but no refused to play. Felt really good when I did finally get to play it after my rig exploded and I got to get an upgrade.

 

[Archangel768]

Glad to see you got to play Jedi Outcast.

I can't really think of a game I got that wouldn't work on my computer. There was Age of Empires 1 back when I had my first computer. It worked but my brother pulled the cpu out. This was during the days that the pins on the cpu didn't have a missing corner so the cpu could be placed back on the motherboard anyway and it would fit. Unfortunately, there was only one right way for it to go in. My brother put it back in hoping he got it the right way but later when I was play Age of Empires 1 the cpu burnt out. When I got my next computer, It wouldn't work. Both computers had 486 cpus in them but, the 2nd one was an older model. At least the 2nd computer was free.

Can't think of getting a game that just doesn't work or doesn't work after a while. Crysis on my old laptop after a couple of hours would start to slow down but, I'd quickly save and reboot the game and it would go back to normal.

 

[Soviet Steve]

I never have that problem - I have a rig that does Crysis 1 on the highest settings for several hours without whining. My default response to getting a new game is going into it and setting all of the graphics settings to the highest possible, then looking insulted that it isn't better while pretending not to be impressed.

I really need to get a monocle for this routine someday. :c

Oh and being an entitled wanker who goes to business school I tend to bring up §42 of the Danish sales law a fair bit to the support staff whenever a product doesn't function, so yes, my first instinct when it doesn't work is to complain, preferably like a snob.

 

[Clive Howlitzer]

I've had that issue with a couple games although I am usually able to work around it. The biggest annoyance though was buying Mass Effect 2 on Steam only for it to crash the second it happened. It was actually a problem with Steam, one that began to occur on many of my games that I had played recently. I had to rebuy some of them and forsake steam for about 6 months before they released a fix.

 

[Vault101]

Im devistated about beyond good and evil

its a bad port and doesnt work well with dual cores, which means all the cutscenes are out of sync

I managed to get it to work ok with a little fiddling around, but then I once opened it up and it was running on speed (tooo fast)

Ive been all over google with the problem, theres no quick fix, and usually they are old, like aparently you can download somthing to regulate you processor speed but Im scared of screwing up my computer (and its a couple years old)

I uninstalled, I may try again later...its a shame because its an amazing game, the little Ive played

 

[kasperbbs]

Never really had that problem, many years ago i bought gta 3, i was obsessed with vice city at the time but had never played its predecessor. So i put the CD into my cd-rom and it doesn't recognize it, might as well be empty. Worked fine for my neighbour so i made an iso on his rig and downloaded it to my own, i let him keep the game for his trouble, his machine couldn't run it tho.

 

[SinisterGehe]

I have never had issue with running games on my computer, never ever. I have always found a way to fix them and make them work, sometimes I have had to use 3rd party fixes for an example: Fallout 3, couldn't get it running without running a 3rd party patch on it to fix some graphics issue that were crashing the game.

Every game I have bought has always ran and I have always played trough, even tho sometimes the games been so bad that I wish I didn't spend the time I did to get it running let alone playing it.

 

[Layz92]

Only problem I have had related to a game of equal time period to my computer and as a direct fault of the computer was Mirror's Edge. All I needed to do was install a PhysX patch though. Only other recent problem was a game came with a bad CD key, which is more the company's mistake rather than the computer. Everything else I have ever really had was as a result of games that are old and don't support more modern things like multiple cores etc etc and also using software that is a little shoddy as a result of having it copied of other peoples computers and similar things that can shake up a program.

 

[Danceofmasks]

Saints Row 2 ...
That thing is such a horrible mess on PC that ... it took till a few months ago before I managed to play it the way it was meant to be.