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I get the urge to play through Fallout 3 again before New Vegas comes out, so I find my game case. Inside I find the manual and CD key, but no disc. I've looked everywhere, it's gone. :-(
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I tried to install off the disc and the installer stalled out when it tried to install DirectX. I had to end-task the installer as the "Cancel" bit did nothing.
I tried to fire off the installer again and multiple instances started to run, all of which outright failed at the DirectX install. I had to reboot.
Still failed after a reboot (stalled on DirectX). Googled what was going on and they said to install DirectX (or in my case, have it go through the requisite attempt) separately, then try again. Well, I went to the folder with the DXSETUP.exe file in it and it took forever to load. And then the DXSETUP did nothing.
Eventually I figured out what was happening - in addition to the DXSETUP program, there's like 7GB of CAB files in there and Windows 7 was trying to read through every one to treat it like a folder. Like it does with ZIP files. I had to research how to turn that off, then log off, then log back on. After that the DXSETUP ran fine and then I was able to install and run the game.
Later that night I tried to play the game again and it told me it couldn't find the disc, even though it was in the drive. Happened twice. I said fuck it and tried the next morning and it worked like a charm.
I really think this may be the last PC game I ever buy retail. The whole time I was thinking two things:
a) This is the sort of thing that turns people to consoles, and
b) This whole mess could have been avoided had I bought the game with Steam.
So, I figure if I like the game I'll get the GOTY through Steam (or the game+dlc equivalent). PC gaming these days is one very leaky abstraction and Steam seems to be patching it up quite well. The fact that it will update your drivers for you (well, ATI at least) is one step towards making it simple to be a PC gamer. I think they should partner with GOG to make old games purchase/run flawlessly through it as well.
At this point a PC game using Steamworks is such a strong selling point to me - I know the DRM won't be a huge pain in the ass and if the disc gives me shit I just type in the key and have Steam do the dirty work for me.
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