So what's your stupid summer mistakes?
So far I have two.
1) Buying Dark Messiah and expecting it to work on Windows 7. Extremely silly of me to assume that. Get a massive FPS [drop] for no apparent reason a few minutes into the game. Even on a dedicated gaming rig crafted by the Greek Pantheon. No fixes online worked, I tried 'em all.
2) Buying the Fable collection on Steam on a limb. Wanted to play the first one and I thought having the other games thrown in for a few dollars more would be fine.
I really should have read the Fable III store page where it clearly said GFWL AND Securom ... on top of Steam. Needless to say that game won't be installed until I can find a way to hack that out. Nobody fault but mine however, still disappointed I supported a company that uses DRM though.

So share your sale finical mistakes here! Lucky the cheap prices ease the blow just a little.

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Saints Row: The Third barely runs on my PC. D: Takes some of the fun out of it.

...Strange considering I can run games like Skyrim on High.

1 decade ago
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Disable SSAO if it's on in the options, tinker around with the settings, it SHOULD run fine if you can run Skyrim on High.

1 decade ago
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AMD graphhics card?
I get the same thing =/ only runs on pretty much lowest settings 1680x1050, know that feel bro.

1 decade ago
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No mistake for the moment, 100% satisfaction with all my games. :)

1 decade ago
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Dark Messiah works for me on windows 7, must be something else that is wrong.

1 decade ago
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It seems to be an extremely common issue with the game. I've tried it with two other PCs (sadly each of which were also running Win7) and it had the same issue. Nobody online seems to have a clue why it's doing it and all the fixes presented do not work for me. Rather sad because the game was decent enough the short amount of time I played it.

1 decade ago
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I've had the exact same problem as you with Dark Messiah. 9 month old gaming rig with windows 7. Everything runs on ultra except friggin dark messiah.

Don't lose sleep over it though. I hear it's shit anyway.

1 decade ago
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Not exactly losing sleep over it but it's not exactly fun to buy a product that doesn't work. I was looking for a little linear first person action RPG to clench my thirst since I've played Mount and Blade to death and back.

1 decade ago
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The only mistake is that I didn't made a giveaway for Railworks.

1 decade ago
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^

1 decade ago
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That's a plus, not a mistake.

1 decade ago
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Luckily i bought some games from amazon sale instead of steam sale was much cheaper there .i was thinking of waiting for steam summer sale to buy those games . i think i made a good choice not listening to myself.

1 decade ago
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What's wrong with getting a massive FPS on Dark messiah? Also I really feel for you with that fable thing xD I avoided the game for the exact same reason.

1 decade ago
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Sorry left out the word "drop", a mistake on my part. Edited for clarity.

1 decade ago
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Dark messiah doesn't work on windows 7? That's weird. Isn't it just a Source game?

1 decade ago
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It advertises itself as a "heavily modified source engine" game, so I really don't know. It's published by Ubisoft so that should of been my first warning bells. :p

1 decade ago
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Works fine for me on Win 7 64 bit.

As is usually the case with Win7 compatibility issues, your mileage may vary...

1 decade ago
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Bought Trine2 and then after ~1h it went in flashsale ( or something like that ) way cheaper. I bought 3 Trine2.. stupid me.

1 decade ago
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It got discounted more than -75% or did you buy it before it got discounted at all?

1 decade ago
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I bought the FEAR Collection and afterwards I wish I spent my money on CRYSIS.

1 decade ago
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Buying frozen synapse and finding out I dont like it. But I bought 2 copies and gave 1 away so thats good I guess

1 decade ago
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Found the Prince of Persia flash sale earlier than was on front page of store. Was labeled 75% off and as a flash sale. but after it when on the front page of the store as a flash deal, 75% off, i noticed price was $3 cheaper. Found out then, that the one i bought earlier was actually 50% off labeled as 75% =/

1 decade ago
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Not buying NFS Hot Pursuit. Although I'd only classify that as a mistake - not as a stupid/big mistake.

1 decade ago
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GTAIV is a giant steaming pile of a 360 port. It's awful and requires so much coddling to get to work. I've spent more time fighting with it than enjoying playing it, including just trying to get multiplayer to let me and a specific friend play (turns out GFWL just doesn't want our gamertags to play together at all, since I made a new silver tag and that worked).

I actually bought it in advance of the summer event but had barely touched it, and I think if I hadn't bought it before, I'd have definitely bought it during the summer sale. And then gone through the rage all at once instead of a little bit when I first tried to get it going.

My brother bought a brand new PC a month ago. All the settings on max: 16fps. All the graphics settings on low with the same resolution: 16fps. Rockstar, GTAV had better not pull this shit.

1 decade ago
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Lol.. it even ran smooth on mid-high (and 720p) on my Dell XPS15 (Nvidia GT 540M).. so it must be something wrong with your PC... Rockstar Games is one of the best game studios these days..

1 decade ago
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As I just read that. GTAIV is known as one of the most poorly coded ports there is.

1366x768 vs 1920x1080 is a big difference in terms of requirements and smooth is an opinion.

30FPS+ is smooth and playable for essentially everyone. 60FPS+ is what you want when you've just paid $1000+ on a new PC as I assume elix has. Just for the record, it's a lot more CPU intensive than GPU simply due to the horrendous coding.

1 decade ago
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that was pretty much why I didn't buy GTA this sale. i'd rather pir... get it somewhere else. 4 layers of drm (securom, gfwl, social club, steam), and this 2008 game runs worse than skyrim, saints row 3, and hell even crysis on maximum. like another poster said a few days ago: "i'd vote for GTA if it weren't for a 'how to run gta' thread with 500+ replies on the front page of the forums". GTAs are some of the best games i've ever played, though, fun-wise.

edit: cyberfreak, there's nothing wrong with his pc. GTA just doesn't like a lot of hardware out there. i know people with i7s and 7970s and the game runs slow for them. it's just badly optimized - your config may run it well, or it may not run it at all, and everything inbetween.

1 decade ago
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No purchase = no mistake, easy peasy

1 decade ago
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This is the biggest mistake i see here!
Exept if you own all games already ;D

1 decade ago
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Bought payday the heist and wish i would of use the money toward somthing else eh not to bad just 4.99

1 decade ago
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Tell me about it, unbelievably boring game.

1 decade ago
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I missed The Witcher, hope it'll be there again.

1 decade ago
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There's a current sale on GOG.com for quite a decent price. I love GOG and their DRM-free awesome.

1 decade ago
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I like to have all my games on Steam

1 decade ago
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If i'm not mistaken, GOG also adds some fixes, so you can run old games on Win7x64.
I have a couple games from there and didnt have any big problems.

1 decade ago
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nuuvem is selling DRM-Free, non-steam Witcher 2 for quite a small price

1 decade ago
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Bought the Prince of Persia pack when I found that it quietly went on 75% discount. Hours later it finally hit the front page and lowered the price even further somehow.

1 decade ago
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I bought all of Fallout NV DLC, then I had to buy Courier's Stash because, well, I had to - I already had Gun Runner's. I lost 0,49 that day.

1 decade ago
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DMOMM works perfectly on windows 7 (and windows 8!)

1 decade ago
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Manhunt. Because it isn't working on Windows 7. But I can judge only myself - they're writing that it doesn't support Windows 7. I expected that it will work, because Midnight Club II is working perfectly for me and they're writing that it doesn't support Windows 7 too. Maybe sometimes I'll create small section on my disk, install Windows XP there and play it. Also - I'm not sure, if realMyst works good on Windows 7, because I have low FPS on lot of places on map. It's game from year 2000.

1 decade ago
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I accidentally bought Railworks 3 for my own account.

1 decade ago
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Ouch. You have my sympathy.

1 decade ago
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I bought Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2. $2.50.

Played it for 15 minutes and became unreasonably bored. I hope multiplayer saves it.

1 decade ago
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I bought 4 Fallout NV DLC, then discovered that they are not compatible with my base game(

1 decade ago
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I don't really have any 'mistakes' as such. Okay, I purchased Arma Anniversary Edition and Portal 2 without the specification requirements and can't actually run them; portal 2 just crashes the graphics driver, and Arma runs at about 3FPS. However, the nice thing about Steam is that one day when I get a better PC I'll be able to download them and have them run.

1 decade ago
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Fable III is shit anyway

1 decade ago
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Closed 1 decade ago by CatastrophicLolcats.