Console mfg QA catches crashes, and thats largely it. LR was one huge slow-down, texture popping nightmare. If they caught anything other than crashes in QA, the game would not have been greenlighted for release. Or at least such is the case with MS... Maybe Sony has a better process.

The first campaign my brother played the first time he popped L4D2 in his 360, it crashed part-way through.

Over 40 hours of L4D2 PC for me, and not a single crash.

I encountered 1 bug in Torchlight where I killed a boss from a quest before the quest was given to me. Now that I have the quest, I can't complete it because the boss is gone and I can't kill him again.

Other than that, Torchlight is unbelievable, a brilliant game.

Fallout 3 crashed literally hundreds of times for me on the PS3 Not to mention all the glitches and frame rate problems.
How many times did it crash on me on the PC? Never! No glitches, no frame rate problems, very fast loading times etc...

On the PC its usually the software you're running in the background rather than hardware incompatibility which causes problems. They can't test their game with say AVG antivirus + Radeon 3870 with Catalyst 9.2 for example and that combination may very well prove fatal to the game engine. In a lot of cases its the anti-virus software which causes problems so I suggest at minimum you should disable it and test the game again to see if there are improvements.

Btw I hardly ever have problems with game crashes even with cracks to kill the stupid disc check. So I can happily say there are pretty good chances you can replicate my own systems reliability.

Thanks for clearing that up, I encountered the same problem. And other than that, I've had no problems either. But it seems there are some problems actually... And I bet they're going to get fixed. I doubt they'd leave a big bug in the game in they knew about it. After all, other than that, the game has very few bugs compared to most games. Even console games.

Honestly, I haven't had a game crash on me hard recently. The last one was The Witcher and I knew that I will have to save often since it was well known that it had crash problems. I just ecenly had some L4D2 problems with loading, but it turns out that was my own fault because I had turned on something my video card couldn't support.

All in all, crashes for me aren't really that much of a problem anymore unless the game itself is known to crash often. I also run very few things in the background, I don't even have an IM running when playing.

I've seen others on gamefaqs complain about the same thing with Torchlight. Torchlight afaik saves the game only when you exit (just like Diablo II). So you know what that means? You should periodically exit the game and then load it up again (a bit tedious but better safe than sorry) just in case another crash comes. Thankfully Torchlight hasn't crashed on me once. And that's with me having IM, Firefox and downloading all kinds of stuff at high speeds in the background. Maybe Torchlight doesn't like your particular virus scanner or your particular graphics card or some combination or whatever. PC gaming can be a real pain in the ass because of this. Because you never know what could be the problem. Console gaming is generally more stable because the hardware is standardized and the game is programmed for that particular piece of hardware.

I got the game for 5 bucks just yesterday off steam sales and sent a copy to my brother too, 5 bucks, not sure what else to say lol. Haven't crashed personally.

Torchlight saves constantly, not just at exit.

Also: the only problems I've had w/ PC games in, literally, years is that some app running in the background is causing the game to crash--killing those extra apps generally does the trick.