Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

[A Black Falcon]

ABF, it may just be you have a lot of junk running in the background. A properly run computer won't encounter crashes unless the program itself has a problem. And, well, Starcraft and WC3 have simply not crashed on me as it seems all such bugs have been stomped out.

Sometimes programs just crash... I don't think there's always some ulterior motive or external motivation (read: something else running on the system made it crash)... Blizzard may be great, but they aren't perfect. Now, of course, I do have a pretty iffy system here stability-wise, so it doesn't take all that much to bring it down, really, but still... on this computer or previous ones, I've probably had just about everything crash before. Well, probably not EVERY game, some just don't work when my system is already unstable/failing, which is a different question, but you get the point... as long as they don't happen too often, an occasional crash (and by that I mean quite rare) isn't so bad. It becomes a problem when a game crashes regularly, or when you do some repeatable thing (a reproducable crash bug), though... but most games are not that bad, and usually bugs that bad get fixed, for the most part.

I didn't get a disk read error, I got a lockup. In fact, I believe that's exactly what I said. You know, it was that glitch in the first Prime that happened occasionally when a new area was being loaded off the disk. Fortunatly, it only happened a couple of times. Once when I ran through two rooms really fast, and another time when I was on an elevator. Well, I suppose technically that makes it a sort of disk read error, an error in the way it reads from the disk. Anyway, I don't have a smoke problem around here so my laser lenses stay clean. I use a special disk to clean them when they do get dirty though. It has a bunch of little brushes on it so when a certain track is selected, the brushes hit it at a billion RPMs for a few seconds.

Reads from the disc? Don't most modern PC games just dump everything onto the harddrive and have an absurd HDD space requirement?