I know all too well what you mean…For some reason I enjoy all the patching/updating graphics card drivers, so much so that when I actually get the game running it feels like its over and I generally play the first level and then start trying to get the next game working….

I can see why console players think we’re crazy

Assuming I did this right and don’t wind up with garbled text allow me to say that even if you were kidding, this almost sums me up, but I usually play to around the half way point or so. Only the best games imo go all the way to the end and/or get multiple replays/speedruns/optimized runs whatever.

I think I got so into the metagame conceptualization of having to jump through so many hoops from the DOS days to get stuff up and running that the puzzle presented of making the game run as perfectly as possible on the hardware provided by modifying only different flags and settings in the software or o/s is now my all time favorite game. It does somewhat dull the gleam in my eye when it works great out of the box… I’ve been playing this metagame around 25 years now, and it has fulfilled my life to a huge degree. My wife, however, thinks I’m just mad. She doesn’t complain when I make her computers and games work better though.