Star Trek: Legacy, a piece of software which by all accounts had the potential to be brilliant but which Bethesda never bothered to finish, doesn't have "bugs". It's not even a game.
It crashes. Hard. Frequently. before it even starts. It's the only game I've had so far that has managed to BSoD Windows 7. Incidentally making this the only time 7 has BSoD'ed on me - ever! Whatever hackjob the programmers did on this monstrosity - and reports suggest it's the ancient Armada engine zoomed in - it causes my video card to choke, throw out random visual garbage, and reset its driver.
How the hell did this ever get out of beta? I'm not alone in this either; apparently it's a small miracle getting this even to work, and when it does it doesn't work right. I'd complain about half the promised features getting cut and the in-game saves being programmed but disabled to stretch out the campaign (!), but that would assume I could actually even get the game to load.
Now, there are fixes - not official ones, nooo, unofficial workarounds done by very brave and very bored people. You wanna know what they are? Maybe fiddle with compat mode, force a safe resolution, something you shouldn't have to do but seems sort of sane in a beta-testing way?
The user-made fixes list I most commonly bumped into is nine steps long. This is a direct copy of two of the steps:
All emphasis original. Yes, that's right: fixing this game requires the computing equivalent of witchcraft.6. Now run the game until it crashes (for me it was when game was almost loaded). do that 5 times!! be sure you remember the first time and the last time you started the game!!
7. Return to the folder "aders" and remove any files that where NOT accessed between the first time and the last time you ran the game in step 6.
