Torrent vs Steam - crash testing

[Čmaroljub Grozni]

A question for those of you who have been experiencing crashes: have you tried running a torrented version of the game and, if so, did you also experience crashes? This could, at the very least, indicate is the steam overlay one of the reasons for constant crashes.

Personally, I'm looking to buy the game today but, due to constant crash reports, I'm wondering if testing the game first with a torrented version would be a legitimate way to determine will I experience problems with the steam version.

[MISTERIGHT]

Dude, you could get banned for talking about this.

[Victoria Raverna]

To test if Steam overlay cause crashes, you don't need to pirate the game. You can disable Steam overlay.

To test if you'll have problem or not with the game also doesn't need to involve piracy. You can buy it and test for yourself. You can refund it if you have problem running the game.

[JocularJosh]

Originally posted by Victoria Raverna:

To test if Steam overlay cause crashes, you don't need to pirate the game. You can disable Steam overlay.

To test if you'll have problem or not with the game also doesn't need to involve piracy. You can buy it and test for yourself. You can refund it if you have problem running the game.

This and you could also just buy the game, see for yourself and refund if it does not work.

[Čmaroljub Grozni]

Originally posted by Victoria Raverna:

To test if Steam overlay cause crashes, you don't need to pirate the game. You can disable Steam overlay.

To test if you'll have problem or not with the game also doesn't need to involve piracy. You can buy it and test for yourself. You can refund it if you have problem running the game.

Regarding the refund part, I've been reading here that some users have experienced crashes after more than 2 hours of gameplay which made it impossible for them to refund the game afterwards. The game ain't expensive but it is currently on the long list of things to buy today so I'm weighting my options. If I can get a confirmation that testing the game this way isn't legitimate I'll just buy something else than risk crashing after the refund period.

[Snipy]

Reported!!

[Čmaroljub Grozni]

Originally posted by kmarkopl:

Reported!!

Oh, no, what have you done?! Imma kill myself now lol

[Horace Pinker]

Originally posted by MISTERIGHT:

Dude, you could get banned for talking about this.

yeah, hope you didn't make this thread on your main steam account

also, I assume you were referring to steam api issues which some games have had in the past, since the overlay can be disabled globally or per game from their right-click/properties options in the library. Maybe a couple or few times in the past I've done that with specific games, and on origin with most games. Overlay could be the problem for a small number of folks ont his game, but I doubt it since plenty use rtss myself included on top of the steam overlay and haven't crashed so far. I have experienced obvious optimization issues though. Some only began crashing dozens of hours into this port, which means it's probably caused by other things some of it might even be related to save bloat for all we know for those that play for along time before they start having problems.

If it's a steam api issue btw, it's possible you wouldn't discover it 'testing' it the way you mention since steam wouldn't be running. So if you're 'testing' for steam issues, that will be pointless for you. Only running it through steam with a legit copy would let you test for those issues. For any other kind of issue and crash cause though, I imagine at least in most cases it would be the same however you played it. The epic version probably is as unstable. They just can't talk about it because they don't have forums. Which publishers probably appreciate lol.