Since I ran Castle Crashers on my PC's...

[Goth Crayon]

On my main desktop PC, I ran Castle Crashers for the first time. When Castle Crashers... *crashed*, upon reboot my desktop PC has suddenly developed a rather unpleasant habit of being "Unable to read/write to drive C:\" and is so blitzed it can't even run chkdsk.

When I ran Castle Crashers for the *second* time it was on my primary laptop. When Castle Crashers... *crashed*, upon reboot my laptop's video card no longer functions properly. I had to re-install my video drivers and re-install Steam.

When I, being stupid and silly enough to believe it was just mere co-incidence that my well-maintained computers suddenly went *boink*. ran Castle Crashers a THIRD time, it was on my Netbook. When Castle Crashers -you guessed it- crashed again, I had to re-install the entire OS and re-download ALL of my backups and restoration software.

Seriously? How FREAKING hard is it to make a Flash-originated game that doesn't turn your computer into a paper-weight? Desktop Crashers for the PC is not my idea of a "fun game," you guys. "Have patience while we..." shove it. This game has been out for a PC-based console for YEARS... YEEEEARS. You want me to believe that *GASP* suddenly there's this HUGE assortment of bugs that were TOTALLY missed by the entire play-testing department? Lazy, laaaaazy, laaaaaazy... This whole thing is a steaming. festering pile of jackal retchings.

[Brandarwi]

This is the first I've heard of anything like this. Anyway, xbox is all one hardware and is made to run on it. For pcs you have all these different processors, video cards, and combinations and a whole bunch of other stuff, so in all practicality developers don't get thousands of computers with a whole bunch of different configurations and test run every single one. Pretty weird that it happened on 3 of em though. :\

[PupMiki]

....this happened on 3 seperate systems... and this is the first time I have heard any of these errors and I have been all over steam, FB, and the official forums.

Sounds kinda off sorry but that just does not seem possible unless all 3 times you did something..

The assortment of bugs is not HUGE, but they officially stated update 1 is on the way (with probly more to coem and some talk of new DLC) Although I do agree a basic play test would ahve pointed out a LOT.

The Behemoth is a small team of peeps who got a smaller team of peeps to port it cause they have BBT being worked on, no exuse but hey it happends.

[Goth Crayon]

Starshok: I know it seems strange as all hell, but jeezy creezy -the laptop was running vanilla Windows XP SP3. Both on the netbook and my desktop, the game crashed as soon as I left the first castle keep and into the town. As soon as the villagers reach a spot slightly beyond the hay wagon, it locks up entirely for about a minute -then the PC speaker shrieks for a few seconds and then CtD followed promptly by a quick BSOD and a screech-reboot. Each time I had *just* installed the game, rebooted once, and ran the game by starting Steam and selecting CC from the menu.

Bryff: I concur, and your statements are completely true about playtesting and limited staff sizes being a limiting factor. However, I can only state here what happened... three times, on three different systems. Even if I did "something" I doubt I could replicate said-thing on three different systems *exactly* resulting in at least two identical crash-patterns... on a vanilla install of CC. Hence, my frustration.

[Veav]

I have occasionally been... unkind regarding this port, but what you're reporting is a first - I haven't heard of CC bricking once, let alone three-for-three. Is there a common factor between the systems? Are you an AMD or nvidia man?

[76561198072799209]

Originally posted by Goth Crayon:

On my main desktop PC, I ran Castle Crashers for the first time. When Castle Crashers... *crashed*, upon reboot my desktop PC has suddenly developed a rather unpleasant habit of being "Unable to read/write to drive C:\" and is so blitzed it can't even run chkdsk.

When I ran Castle Crashers for the *second* time it was on my primary laptop. When Castle Crashers... *crashed*, upon reboot my laptop's video card no longer functions properly. I had to re-install my video drivers and re-install Steam.

When I, being stupid and silly enough to believe it was just mere co-incidence that my well-maintained computers suddenly went *boink*. ran Castle Crashers a THIRD time, it was on my Netbook. When Castle Crashers -you guessed it- crashed again, I had to re-install the entire OS and re-download ALL of my backups and restoration software.

Seriously? How FREAKING hard is it to make a Flash-originated game that doesn't turn your computer into a paper-weight? Desktop Crashers for the PC is not my idea of a "fun game," you guys. "Have patience while we..." shove it. This game has been out for a PC-based console for YEARS... YEEEEARS. You want me to believe that *GASP* suddenly there's this HUGE assortment of bugs that were TOTALLY missed by the entire play-testing department? Lazy, laaaaazy, laaaaaazy... This whole thing is a steaming. festering pile of jackal retchings.

I'm not sure how to answer this because I'm not super tech savvy, but I'm going to start a support ticket for you if that's alright. Would you like to continue correspondence through this discussion or you can add me as a friend and I can attach your e-mail to the support ticket directly??

[Zyca]

Hello i finally registered after a year without making a profile just to answer and share this :)

I run it on windows 7 .

Im "glad" to inform you that i have exact the same problem today over and over again on my netbook trying to play castle crashers. So the problem is somewhere in the game. Im "glad" of this because i was playing torchlight 2 this weekend on it, the g. card was burning, but it was fine and smooth fps-wise. And today my first tought was to assume that my netbook graphics card was toasted somehow. Now that i read it may be the game im a little relieved.

As you describe, game crashes on me, everything on screen goes awry and then, after forcing a reboot via power button, presto! In device manager grapchis card is shown as faulty, no 3D application can longer work (not even nvidia panel) and i have to un-install the nvidia driver, the gcard from device manager and re-install everything again.

I have done all this 3 times for now, and the crash happens only when you run castle crashers. Sometimes you get in the gameplay, sometimes it happens in title screen.


PS: oh, strangely enough, i was playing fine for about an hour monday night. This started happening this morning.