>trying to play Elden Ring on launch day
>game launches with a white screen and then close after a second, every time
>look everywhere, after several hours and missing the live launch I'm totally demoralized
>someone on a steam community thread with only three posts says 'try installing the epic games launcher'
>what the fuck
>install it without touching anything else
>open steam again
>elden ring launches perfectly
to this day I have no idea how it worked
do you have any stories like this, anon?

>Dark Souls Demastered won't detect my controller
>no idea why, it was working fine a few weeks ago
>search for a fix
>find a Reddit comment telling me to press CTRL+ALT+DEL, open the task manager, click the window once, and then tab back to Dark Souls
>whatever dude
>mfw it works

>Launch SF6
>Get locked at 17FPS
>Nothing in game fixes it
>Take a break from it
>Make notes for something else in a notepad
>Re-open SF6
>Constant 60fps
>Close notepad
>Drops to 17fps
>Reopen notepad
>Back to 60fps
I still don't understand it, but I guess It doesn't matter because it's working for me

>>713369402 (OP)
>to this day I have no idea how it worked
It uses EAC, which is an Epic spyware anticheat.

>Let It Die refuses to boot
>look it up
>turns out you must have Internet Explorer installed for it to work
It's not a crazy fix per se, but I'm still baffled by those retarded Nip coders making IE a mandatory component out of all things. In 2018+ no less.

>>713370424
>game wasn't even playable on windows 11 for over half a year
>still outlived the sequel and even getting half-ass updates

>Battlefront 2 (2005) crashes on start up
>plug in a mic
>it werks

>>713370387
>EAC
oh, that actually makes a ton of sense
thanks for explaining anon