Fallout 3 and FNVU crashing every 5 minutes. But I fixed Fallout 3 by rolling back my driver. FNVU seems to have fixed itself, but the base game barely ever crashed, so I don't understand why the DLC did.

well one time someone went into my room and broke apart my metoid 2 Gameboy cart.... I ended up sending it to Nintendo and getting a new one for $10 but it came with a book that time!

LA Noire.

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Or try Googling it.

Also Bioshock 2 right at the end, almost every playthrough would glitch so I couldn't finish the game.

The Mafia II objective glitch.

Yeah, the Hoard game. But the PC port was apparantly bad, even if it did work (I was able to play...but I couldn't see a thing, because of the black screen and sometimes shards of colors). Someone posted on their forums about a issue s/he had, but after more than a month, still no answer.

So yeah, I just gave up.

You most likely have already tried but take a look at (forum link code refuses to work for some reason, www.stealthbastard.com/forum/index.php?topic=17.0

If that fails to fix things try posting your log files on the SBD forums, They should look into it for you.

Plenty of games have made me furious over some bad programming or design, but they're all lost to the haze of hatred.

Darksiders, Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands, and Ghost Master cannot run on my laptop. :(

Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition was pretty unplayable vanilla.

Don't kill meh~

well... the games itself weren't the thing that was broken but because EAOrigin is broken for my computer, i could never play mass effect 3.

the ME3 demo worked fine so i have no clue how the f*ck they managed to screw it up, but whenever i install a game (demo's still work fine) it gets stuck at 99% installation because it can't seem to figure out that i already have the latest video card drivers, so i would have to uninstall my graphics card every time i want to install a game or even install an update...

honestly, the whole part about the game not working doesn't bother me... it was their retarded support that did... i spent 6 hours telling someone "i have downloaded the game but it is stuck at 99% install, i have already portforwarded" which i said within the first 5 minutes and repeated constantly... yet he was still trying to get me to portforward the whole f*cking time.

Also Batman Arkham City retail, I tried 4-5 different methods for revoking an activation, none of which worked, so I uninstalled without revoking(after already losing two activations to crash/hd failure)

Had similar problem with Endless Space. Turned out it was the VC package, uninstalling and reinstalling it manually did the trick. Also, I tried running a Terraria server on a machine without the miscellaneous installations. Didn't work, predictably. So first thing I'd do is verify the game cache and troubleshoot the various redistributable installers.

Also had issues with Red Faction: Armageddon an Saints Row 3. Couldn't launch the games at all since the bloody executables were missing. Downloading them worked for RFA but not for SR3 until I filed a support ticket with Steam Support. Now the problems ae dispeared, seemingly on their own.

Bioshock would start for a split second and then nope.avi. Installed a disc copy on the same machine, no issues. The problem disappeared though as well after some time. Always played hell with my EAX emulation though.

"I Am Alive"... still want to punsh the devs in the face...

Not quite the same thing, but back in the ancient days of the Playstation I bought a used copy of FF 9 and it was working wonderfully and I loved it and then I got to disk 4 and it was broken and I couldn't continue. In a similar vein my brother in the same game had a save point right before a difficult boss that would crash the game and corrupt the save file if he used it.

The original Tomb Raider on PC. The controls make me sad.

Ship Simulator Extremes. I have been fighting with their support for almost a month.

Empire Total War.

Complete coaster for me, and no support to be seen from either Steam or the developer.

What a waste. Has put me off from ever buying another title from them.

Star Wars: KOTOR, bloody hell took me like an entire hour to fix the game, crashes every 30 minutes too, good lord the game itself was amazing.

Bioshock 1 & 2 crashes on my pc and I couldn't find a solution; also the Commandos series 'can't find steam'.

Almost every issue I've ever had with a PC game that couldn't be fixed by updated drivers or .INI tweaks or such has been due to DRM, be it Securom insisting that my retail disc is not good enough or Games for Windows Live refusing to activate (thank God that's dying now). I have no moral qualms about pirating the game in such a case; I did pay good money for it, after all.

But other than that, aside from the games that require you to keep quicksaving every 10 seconds to recover from potential crashes or games that freeze after X hours of play due to running out of memory (too many games to count but not something I consider a fatal flaw), nothing that ever infuriated me. I recall maybe one or two cases of the game not running due to missing dependencies (developer assuming everybody has version X of a library or supplying a broken installer for it), but I don't rank that above "annoying" since Google usually knows how to fix that.

It's also common for people to complain about a crashing game when they've got an unstable rig without knowing it. Yes, it is very much possible to have problems with only one game and not any others, even if the game is not stressing the hardware, as unlikely as it may seem. Last month I had a problem with the machine crashing consistently (as in hard reboot, not even a BSOD) when I nudged the table in Timeshock!, which is 16 years old and has no way of properly stressing the GPU at all. Turns out the card had become slightly unseated. No problems in any other games, even Furmark wouldn't crash. But after reseating the card, sure enough, no more crashes. Go figure. Unstable hardware can make just about anything crash in weird and unique ways.

Experienced it with "Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit" and "Wizorb" Steam version. The solution for both was Control Panel > Region and Language > Change everything to USA English.

But also it didn't work on Windows 8 64-bit.

TESV: Skyrim.

Dragon Age Origins has a high probability of crashing when certain effects are on screen. I quick saved every 20 seconds or so due to fear of CTD. Then I stopped playing it.

Magicka kills me because it should run fine on my computer(s - both of them!) but it doesn't, it lags and fails all the time. Also, Fallout 3 doesn't run, that's a known issue, but it still bothers the heck out of me.