Why does Windows suck so much now?

[Bires]

I'm more than a little irritated. Remember when games that crashed could be closed with a simple Cntrl-Alt-Delete? It seems that every other game I've played recently is buggy, and when it crashes and I CAD, or alt-tab, or alt-enter, or cntrl-esc, the curser shows up to mock me, and nothing else happens. So, I have to reboot, and make a sandwich as windows scans 200GB of hard drives. :throw:

[PrObLy]

Give Windows-L a try, it seems to be the most overwhelming of the "kick your computer's ass back into gear" buttons.

[DarkFury]

Sounds like another good reason to partition off your system drive and only scan the part you are using for the O/S. :D

[Bires]

Sounds like another good reason to partition off your system drive and only scan the part you are using for the O/S. :D

Actually, I do. I have my best HD split into three pieces:

c:system/os
d:swapfile
f:games

When a game crashes, it scans all three. :thud:

[shocky123]

I've had similar issues with games. You likely do not have to actually reboot.
The problem occurs when your game runs in a different resolution (800x600.. 1024x.. etc) than it does with windows, and the game probably has not been specifically programmed to allow you to use those 'escape commands'.
If you do a ctrl-escape, so you'll get your cursor up. Try a ctrl-alt-del to get the task manager up. You probably will not see it, but if the mouse comes up, it is interfacing with your explorer session at some level or another.
..this is where it really helps to know what the actuall executable your game runs is.
"Game.exe" is fairly common.

Hit 'G', then 'Delete', then 'Y' ..

.. that should terminate the game process and bring you 'back' into windows.
(People had this problem with OpenGL programs back in the day.. so much so that someone actually wrote a 'minimizer' program that can minimize SOF2)

you might look into that and see if that helps.
If not, (well.. regardless).. I agree Windows sucks.

*'It's the more compatible OS'*
what a bunch of junk

~Kyle

[Jeffbx]

Hm - sounds like a problem with the games, not with Windows.

Kyle's right on about the resolution... Windows is likely still running along happily, but the game's not releasing you back to your desktop resolution.

[Bires]

I run my desktop and all my games at 1024x768 on a Radeon9800P (because my monitor refreshes at 100Hz, which I like). I'll give the random deleting a try after accessing the task manager.

[spigidygak]

Hm - sounds like a problem with the games, not with Windows.

Kyle's right on about the resolution... Windows is likely still running along happily, but the game's not releasing you back to your desktop resolution.

I don't think its the OS or the software alone responsible for crashing the system. The way windows deals with games and such sometimes there's a good chance it hoses the system, whereas with os x the way programs are handled its real hard for a bad program to bring down the whole system. One example is with world of warcraft. I've played it on both windows and os x. On os x it has crashed and for those few times it will just shut down the program but the os is fine. With windows its a crap shoot sometimes its just wow that goes bad or more likely i get a whole system restart.

[DarkFury]

Actually, I do. I have my best HD split into three pieces:

c:system/os
d:swapfile
f:games

When a game crashes, it scans all three. :thud:
I load my games and other applications on the C: drive (partition). Storage files on the E: drive (partition) don't need to be scanned... therefore I don't ever have to scan the whole drive whenever troubles arise. :D