And Startopia, there's a game worthy of being labelled a virus if there ever was one. I download the lovely demo. Game unpacks over a thousand files (no exagerration). I run it and go to graphics settings and switch to 1024x768. Instantly I get a blue screen of death, IN WINDOWS 2000. Yes, Win2K does have a blue screen, and yes it is more attractive than the Win98 one but also much more serious. For the first time in ages, I reboot Win2k because of a crash. Okay no biggie, game sucks, let's move on. Win2k scan disk thing runs. Finds a bunch of errors but mercifully no bad sectors (well it didn't do a full surface scan so I guess I won't know for sure till I do). I try running the game again to find it would no longer let me create a new player, and the old player I created wasn't show up. In other words the game self-destructed and corrupted the hell out of itself after the crash. This is something that checking the error codes returned by DirectX or OpenGL would have prevented. Oh and there was no uninstaller either, seems that would have been too complex a thing for MuckyFoot. (btw the crash turned out to be a problem Startopia was having with all GeForce based cards running recent drivers, a problem no other game has afaik. So I wasn't just some odd guy with an odd system).
I'm sure if I tried I could remember many more instances of commercial games having a system for lunch. Take nothing for granted on the basis that the game can be found on store shelves. There is a tremendous amount of crap out there.
Edited by - LordElectro on July 13, 2001 2:36:12 PM
