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[veloper]

No one likely cares, but I'm surprised there's issues like this around without a fix. I have over 200 games purchased via steam and I have no problems with any of them that haven't been fixed within a day.

i might piss some people off with this but it likely just requires a little spot bug fixing, i have had to do it with games before, its just one of the things to deal with as a pc gamer. To this day =i have not got a game that won't run. (although plenty i wont play because they suck)

Same here.
But then I wouldn't get any windows 7 compatibility issues, because I've only installed newer releases on my windows 7 rig. Most really old games are on my 2nd rig, which has XP.

 

[brunothepig]

Nothing, that I know of. And that's about 130 games. Oh, there's been issues, Fallout 3, Payday, Batman, King Arthur, Borderlands and that's only the recent ones. But some basic troubleshooting or a search on the Steam forums is all I've ever needed to fix them.

 

[Idocreating]

Not trying to be elitist, but this is where I think console games have a bit of an advantage over PC.

It's not elitist, it's fact. One of the advantages of a console over a PC is conveinence, that you pop the game in and it'll work as intended unless there's hardware damage in the console/disc.

 

[Idocreating]

Not a steam game, but I have never managed to get Battlefield 3 working. I've literally given up.

I've started experiencing the same lag issues in BF3 that I did in Bad Company 2. I'm pretty sure EA likes to fuck with the servers somehow. Kills the enjoyment from the game.

And it's not my connection, any other game works fine.

 

[Frostbyte]

Civ 5, and Garry's mod. I can do basic things on Gmod, but my laptop doesn't have a numpad, so I can't do cool things, like explosives

 

[Drop_D-Bombshell]

Amnesia: The Dark Descent keeps on Black Screening whenever I read the third memo about Daniel being trapped and going into a light. It really sucks.

 

[The]

I was playing Sam and Max: Season 2 and managed to get through the first episode, despite it constantly freezing up. When I got to the second one, it kept freezing at a certain point in the beginning and I never went back to it ever since. Haven't tried the other episodes yet, maybe they're not as glitchy.

 

[Futurenerd]

Flatout keeps saying "Application Error: Cannot find Steam"
I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS T_T

 

[F'Angus]

Strangers Wrath, which is a damn shame because I love that game.

Red Faction Armageddon and Blacklight Tango Down also never worked after I bought them.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

The first Deus Ex. Screwed up with some modding. Now it doesn't work at all, even if I redownload it.

Delete the game, then go to the game file (steam/steamapps/common/game name) and delete ALL the files inside. Then go to the game's .ini file (My Documents/My Games/other file) and wipe that out too. Then try reinstalling again.

EDIT: Oh, the first Deus Ex? You can probably ignore the .ini file bit, then.

truth. unfortunately just un installing doesn't do the trick that you think it does. plus i usually flush all my temp files and recycle bin just to be sure sometimes.


OT: thankfully i'm tech savvy enough so far that i haven't had this problem, with a little elbow grease and troubleshooting i've gotten everything to work, one way or another...however, my longest accomplishment was fallout 3, which took literally from 8 a.m. until 10:30 p.m. that night to get running. i was flippin pissed off into stubborn damnation.

 

[bean burrito]

I could never get Frozen Synapse, which kills me cause I really wanted to try it out...

 

[Wayneguard]

Hitman: Codename 47 doesn't agree with multi-core processors. Playing at 400% game speed is not fun. I had to stop after the first 5 minutes.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

Oh jeez. Since I got a weak computer there is a LOT. Majority WORK but the Framerate is always so fucking LOW. I am talking like 10... Maybe 20 if I am lucky.

Alpha Protocol
Call of Duty 4
Grid
Killing Floor
Nearly all the source games. Mainly TF2 in this regard.
Need for Speed Undercover
Sonic Generations
Sanctum

holy crap...no offense, but if those are chugging bad for you, as in 10-20 frames...then you really really have a weak computer XD

definitely recommend a upgrade...obviously built by yourself or someone you know to save some serious cash.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

Hitman: Codename 47 doesn't agree with multi-core processors. Playing at 400% game speed is not fun. I had to stop after the first 5 minutes.

If it really is caused by multicore processors, you can set the affinity to just use one core. Just open up the task manager, find the process, right click it, and set the affinity. It's stuff like this that those of us who are talking about how they've never bought anything through steam that they couldn't eventually get to run are talking about; it's not always easy, but there's almost always a way to get an old game to run. The only exceptions are Windows 3.1 era dinosaurs that nobody has made an updated engine for, and even those can usually be run in a virtual machine. A lot of older games that used the installshield wizard don't like 64 bit operating systems either, but there are usually fan made installers for those. That's the thing about PC gaming: there's more compatibility issues than there are with consoles, but there's almost always a way to get a game to work. I mean, it's not like there's a workaround to use your existing NES cartridges and run them on your Wii[footnote]virtual console doesn't count, I'm talking about people with ancient collections[/footnote]. With the PC, on the other hand, I actually can run legally obtained computer games that are every bit as old as the NES. I have to look up the workarounds (although with games that old, it's usually as simple as "run it in DosBox"), but I actually can get it to work.

 

[R4ptur3]

God damn grid. I've played it, I completed it, I uninstalled it, wanted to play it again at a later date, install it and now it won't work at all lol. Odd as that's the only game it does that.

 

[daftnoize]

Munches oddesey and strangers wrath dont work at all well for me and are pretty much unplayable. But thats just add waters fault not mine, still get hd update for free which isnt too shabby

 

[PureIrony]

Vampire - the masquerade - bloodlines.


They really should not sell games that are incompatible with windows 7.

Have you disabled UAC and running steam and Bloodlines as administrator? That's what solved it for me.

 

[JaceArveduin]

One of the Humble Bundles, was gifted to me, and I never got around to really playing the games due to the high amount of games I already play. Though I don't touch Borderlands that often either.

 

[Grottnikk]

I had trouble with Orcs Must Die and Skyrim, but I found that checking the file cash and verifying all the files fixed all the problems.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

Penumbra Overture. I got it from the Humble bundle a while back, but the computer I had it on died, so when I redownloaded it on my new computer I got it from steam. It has a really strange graphical glitch where everything looks like the computer is trying to render it in 3D and I don't have 3D glasses. I haven't managed to get it to work right, and I'm not quite sure if the problem is the new hardware or the fact that I downloaded it off of steam this time. Either way, considering I've beaten the game it doesn't really bother me that much that I can't play it again at the moment, so I haven't spent a significant amount of time trying to work out the issue.