>Pirate game
>Start game
>Screen suddenly flashes black and then back
>Command prompt opens for a millisecond and disappears
>Game starts as usual
>Quit game
>Game.exe has stopped working and must be stopped
>>385966384
>>385966547
pretty common for me for years now, still yet to experience the common symptons of infected systems, such as;
>shit getting el deletod
>computer being part of botnet and DDOS'ing something
>system ceasing to function completely
>losing steam account or e-mail accounts
>>385966384
>start pirated game
>command prompt flashes for a millisecond
>game never loads
>>385966894
>Forgot to copy the crack
Happened for me once with gta 5
>>385966384
>Computer works fine for years
>Suddenly programs on main hard drive starts getting deleted in alphabetical order (Such as Audacity, Battle.net etc.)
>I go to check what's happening since icons are vanishing from the desktop
>It suddenly stop and hasn't returned since
>that was 6 months ago
>pirate game
>start installer
>sickass music starts playing
Makes me smile every time
>Start pirated game
>Windows changes to the basic theme
>buy game
>play game
>Pirate game
>Game boots up and blackbeard meets with my character and tells me how to find the buried treasure.
>he doesn't triple scan every single thing he downloads from the internet with an antivirus, adwarecleaner, and malwarebytes
>>385967561
>Start malewarebyte scan
>Malewarebytes.exe has stopped working
uh oh
>>385967329
>buy game
>log into developer's proprietary distribution service
>install game
>install subsequent updates
>launch game
>watch unskippable promotional cinematics and splash screens
>play game
>>385967829
>not booting into safe mode
>pirate game
>everything works fine
>a week later
>quit game for the 20th time
>icons on desktop rearrange themselves to the left in seemingly no logical order
>>385967972
>icons start disappearing one by one in quick fashion
>computer shuts off
>tfw this happened to me
must've been hard drive wipe due to virus
>>385967972
Resolution reset, means windows explorer crashed. They rearranged by date of last .exe update.
>buy game
>play it
>
>Game bought off Steam crashes
>Previously unknown crash reporter program appears
>Goes away with Malwarebytes
>Comes back next time game crashes
>Only way to get rid of it is to delete the config file