[SOLVED] Constantly crashing and Wireless Controller Issue

[Bony]

There are two major issues people have with this game: Crashes every 10 minutes and some people have issues with Xbox wireless controller for Windows (7).
Other people never experience such things.

I'm someone who experienced both situations.
The good news is: It's probably not the game.
The bad news is: The solution is reinstalling Windows (7)

I never had crashes and my wireless controller was working just fine. Then my hard drive was destroyed and I had to reinstall windows.
Then suddenly my xbox wireless controller wasn't working anymore and I had crashes every 10 minutes. The game was unplayable.

I gave up and reinstalled windows again.
Now the important part:

It was a formated hard drive. Not a repair. You can try a repair installation, but I don't know if this is the solution. I made a really new installation and now everything is fine.
You can buy a new hard drive and plug in your old hard drive to safe your old data like documents or music. You needn't to reinstall all your games, just tell steam where the games are on the other (old) hard drive ("add new library" in "downloads" --> "settings").

Install windows with only keyboard and mouse plugged in.
When windows is installed, add motherboard-drivers (like ethernet and [onboard-]sound), then video card driver. Then install all things you need like firefox, steam, email (remember your password!) and other programms.

And then install your controller (if you have issues with the controller).

I tried every hint or tipp on the internetzzzz, nothing was working.

It's work for three hours, but I think people with major problems who really want to play this very good game should give it a try. A small new hard drive with space for a new windows installation isn't too expensive. Maybe you can find a real big usb-stick and use this as a test hard drive.

But: The only solution was a complete new installation of windows.