Your Steam Graveyard

[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.

 

[Treblaine]

Not trying to be elitist, but this is where I think console games have a bit of an advantage over PC. There are NO games made for consoles that cannot run on consoles

YES there are. You try playing an obscure Xbox Original game on an Xbox 360.

PS3 has no backwards compatibility and of course of the three major players there is no cross compatibility. It's a hugely fractured market. Ideally there would be two main competitors and both would be fully backwards compatible with their lineage but they aren't.

Xbox 360 you are limited to games specifically made for its specifications since Late 2005 to 2006. But you apply that same rule to PC games and they'll be reliable. This graveyard is for games made for much older OS only working in compatibility mode or just the lowest common denominator.

Also, PCs have to not only have the specs (there are a lot of specs to line up) the right settings (more than just texture quality) your PC also has to be in good order, without malware or corrupted, fragmented files. Also a lot of people are running faulty memory and just don't know it. Personally ever time I upgrade my hard drive (about every 3 years) I do a brand new install from scratch. Any crap and viruses from the old system are gone.

But that says nothing for DRM subtly sabotaging the game because you didn't give blood to the blood gods.

 

[dragsaw]

age of empiers 3 as the bloddy thing will only work on xp >=(

is there a way i cn get my cash back

 

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