Warp wrote:

>   Is anyone else experiencing crashes with the vast majority of games?
> Do PC games just suck, or is there something wrong with my system?

In the last year or two, I've played HalfLife, Opposing Force, 
Blueshift, HalfLife 2, HalfLife 2: Episode 1, HalfLife 2: Episode 2, 
HalfLife 2: Deathmatch, CounterStrike: Source, Portal, Team Fortress 2, 
Audiosurf, FarCry and Abe's Oddessy. Of these, only the ancient ones 
have crashed or misbehaved in any way.

(Abe's Offessy occasionally crashes. It's originally a PlayStation game. 
[That's PS1, mind you!] Also the HalfLife-derived games experience weird 
glitches and things with the game menu. That never happened back in the 
Windows 98 days, but it does now. I'm guessing it's just too old to work 
properly on an OS that didn't even exist when it was written.)

In a typical week, I play TF2 or CSS for many, many hours on end, often 
having to quit the game only because my legs have gone numb from so many 
hours of inactivity. And yet, I never see crashes of any kind. Ever.

(What I *have* recently started seeing is strange video glitches - 
particularly polygon edges at infinity. This occurs consistently in all 
3D games, including FarCry which isn't Source-powered, so I'm fairly 
sure my graphics card is dying. Indeed, removing it and dusting it made 
the problem go away temporarily.)

On the other hand, other people in my gaming clan seem to have problems 
with games constantly and repeatedly crashing. As in, they join me for a 
game, and after 10 minutes they suddenly stop responding, and then after 
a while they rejoin the game because their PC just rebooted. For me, the 
Source engine is rock-solid, so I am mystified as to why they have such 
issues...

[I can't help noticing that whenever I visit these guys in person, 
everybody has the latest extreme-modded cases with the ridiculously OTT 
styling and the transparent panels and the case lighting and the 
watercooling and the RAID arrays and overclocked CPUs and GPUs... and my 
humble machine just looks like an ordinary PC.]

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