29th March 2006, 10:05 PM
Quote:It's hard to say how far that goes, but if you have gotten to the point that you simply accept games crashing as par for the course, there's problems that need to be dealt with.
No, I was talking in general about that part... I've been playing PC games since 1991. Not every game I've ever played has crashed at some point, but a good number have... and a lot of those bugs weren't patched. WCIII? No idea why it crashed a few times, but it did... did system instability help bring it down? Maybe, but who knows... I know it's not perfect (that is I'm not the only person who has ever had it crash)... same with SC... I mean, it seems to me that someone who plays lots of PC games and says "they almost never crash on me" is the exception, not someone like me who says "they do every once in a while"...
System crashes, that's different. I know my computer does that more than most, because it's a 4 1/2 year old computer running WinME that has built up all kinds of stuff over the years. Now, I keep it in as good shape as I can (with an average user, the thing would probably have been considered 'broken junk' a few years back, with some of the problems it's had), and keep spyware/viruses/etc off, but still, yeah, it's not exactly stable to say the least. Oh well, I'm used to how it runs... we understand eachother, I think. :)
Quote:I can use my computer for months on end without a single crash. What happens between those months? I happen. I experiment with my computer a lot, and sometimes I get some... unpleasent results .
Yes, probably the problems I have caused to my computer have been almost as numerous as the random errors or problems that I did nothing to set off... like when I tried to fix my soundcard drivers and ended up deleting them and having to delete and reinstall my soundcard from the system devices... or how I keep hoping NVidia's latest drivers will actually work and not crash my system repeatedly as all of their drivers from the last few years have... and then I have to uninstall them and reinstall good old 41.09... :)