Steam games that won't open

I understand your frustration. Some games are indeed broken. However, I never had problems with Witcher 2 and I have installed it on both Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, through Steam, without any issues.

Hmm, I rarely had issues launching Steam games. Maybe the problem is your computer?

Normally, Steam games don't require extra patching to make them work, but this is a PC world, everyone's setup is different, and sometimes a certain configuration can cause hardware or software problems that prevent the game from running. This is especially true with older games.

After 20 hours, my sonic allstar racing transformed decided it wouldnt run anymore, other than that all the other steam games worked just fine, even if sometimes it takes a little time to make them work properly (ive had some problems with GFWl games in the past).

Never had problems running games on steam ... then again I never had problems runing games on GFWL either. A lot of the time its due to outdated hardware or more frequently, outdated software. If you cant keep your software updated, you really shouldnt be gaming on a PC. Its one extra step we have to take so that games can run normaly on all kinds of different hardware. I think its a small price to pay.

I have windows 8.1...and i5 3570+280x..8gb ram... so pretty much decent rig...
Witcher 2 I saw many guys with various problems.. Kof I had to work alot to make it start... Xcom too..

every 5 games I try to play 1 I'll have to find a way to run

I needed to put it aout...
But it's better to put it juillet... D:

[Quote]If you cant keep your software updated, you really shouldnt be gaming on a PC[Quote]

I hate that superior, pc elitist, geek dickhead attitude. Everybody has to start somewhere and learn as they go so thankfully theres loads of people out there willing to make numerous posts on numerous forums to help people who might not know what some people think they should.

I have this problem with The Joylancer, but it seems that not even the developer can help me fix it.

damn LUXOR series.

Gothic 2 you need to delete a steam file before starting it as of last time I tried to play. Gotta give GoG +++Kudos on keeping old games running on newer systems.

I have this problem with AC:Brotherhood on Windows 8. AC:2 and AC:R works though, its really frustrating :/

BlackSoul extended edition.....

I dont know about the rest, but the first time I played L.A. Noire (it was this week) all the cinematics were a staring contest between a couple of dudes, after wich they made akward gestures, always continuing with the stare contest, and the last patch was from 2012, so it could have been fixed a long long time ago.

2 game i know of. Some crap called call of ctulhu, which require windows media player to run, which i'm not going to install. And some other game i can't remember which require quick time. I think it's some sort of mmo with filmed scenes.

2 games i know of. Some crap called call of ctulhu, which require windows media player to run, which i'm not going to install. And some other game i can't remember which require quick time. I think it's some sort of mmo with filmed scenes.

2 games i know of. Some crap called call of ctulhu, which require windows media player to run, which i'm not going to install. And some other game i can't remember which require quick time. I think it's some sort of mmo with filmed scenes.

Olliolli... needs Steam Overlay diabled to get it to work.

Deadly Premonition was a game that never started up for me.

Skyrim decided to stop working on me 20 hours in. Oh also Political Machine 2012.

Stop. Think for a moment what you saying.

Try to remember how MANY titles there are on steam from how many sources. Compare with the others. Do the math.
Steam is a ocean compared to other ponds. In that sense is chaos. Steam can't and shouldn't be responsible for this kind of fix but the devs themselves- altougth one can argue that they should do something, like, idn, flag itens or 'punish' the publisher in some way. BUT then... how can you defend something like that to your shareholders and such? I know Gabe still owes the company but i doubt he have 100% of it.

BEsides, keeping the tabs on all games, how and if they need some fix with some setup - yeah, cause many of the bugs happen rarely, only on some hardware setups- that would cost unimaginable amounts of cash and manhours. Id rather have steam staff fixing and improving steam then checking if and how each steam entry is installing allright 'on every machine'.

They're a storefront you know. Go on, open a store on your city, and tell me if you would fix the problens of the products you're only reselling.

Deadly Premonition, Warhammer 40k Retribution and Poof simply don't work at all :(

Also several others with such bad FOV issues they are unplayable for me.

I actually have more fun fixing games to get them to work than I do playing them in some occasions. It gives me satisfaction. Then the game sucks and I uninstall it, having wasted my time, but I feel like I accomplished something so hey.

I can't play Saint's Row 2. I've tried to launch it for 41 minutes (1 try takes about 5 seconds) and I've spent probably more than 10 hours to find some sort of fix to this on the Internet.