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[Acerac]

The only problem it had was the lack of graphics options, plus the KB/M implementation. Controller is a way superior to play the game anyway.

There. Is. Nothing. Else.

No performance issue. No weird glitch found only in the PC version. Nothing. If that's a "disaster" then I wish every disaster was only like that.

It is the worst possible thing. A PC port where they didn't add graphical options? Just hearing about it makes me want to whip my computer off of the nearest bridge!

All these people talking about games that didn't actually run and whatnot are obviously delusional.

 

[Cannon Goose]

Splinter Cell: Conviction runs like garbage and GTAIV is still terrible after all this time.

Does Saints Row the Third still run poorly on AMD GPUs? I remember there being a big stink about awful performance on random GPUs and I wasn't sure if it ever got fixed.

 

[k_trout]

Splinter Cell: Conviction runs like garbage and GTAIV is still terrible after all this time.

Does Saints Row the Third still run poorly on AMD GPUs? I remember there being a big stink about awful performance on random GPUs and I wasn't sure if it ever got fixed.

i had to give up on St Row 3rd
such bad performance for me

 

[Adahn]

My vote goes to Grand Theft Auto IV.

It's a bitch to install.

You can barely run it with minimum hardware.

It looks and plays like shit on vanilla settings.

You can hardly mod it without breaking it (for instance, that damn taxi bug will be the death of me. Every fix for that bug either doesn't work, or causes the worst texture pop-in ever.)

It's a bitch to uninstall, too. (Gotta run dat Service Pack 3 on the damn uninstall executable. -_____-)

A friend of mine had actually ROM'd & cracked the game and said the game installs & plays much better than it does normally.

I'm sure there are worse ports, but since I'm still relatively new to the console space, this is my choice...

I had to intentionally break GTA IV to pass the bit in the final mission where you spam A or Spacebar. It literally wouldn't work whatever I did. I had to overload my graphics card in the settings so the game froze and stuttered like crazy and then I was finally able to get passed it. Sigh.

 

[Scoot2005]

My vote goes to Grand Theft Auto IV.

It's a bitch to install.

You can barely run it with minimum hardware.

It looks and plays like shit on vanilla settings.

You can hardly mod it without breaking it (for instance, that damn taxi bug will be the death of me. Every fix for that bug either doesn't work, or causes the worst texture pop-in ever.)

It's a bitch to uninstall, too. (Gotta run dat Service Pack 3 on the damn uninstall executable. -_____-)

A friend of mine had actually ROM'd & cracked the game and said the game installs & plays much better than it does normally.

I'm sure there are worse ports, but since I'm still relatively new to the console space, this is my choice...

GTA IV. Bought it for $15 new... Never even unwrapped the fucking thing after reading about all the bullshit. Thought I got a good deal lol.

 

[Shaneus]

Oh damn, I forgot about this one. You won, this is even worse.

I thought that was a Spiderman game? Anyway, same same.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (NES) was ported to PC (DOS) and was impossible to complete because they made a ceiling too low to make a mandatory jump.

I'm pretty sure they were parallel releases and not actual ports. In fact, I'm sure I had it on PC before it came out on NES.

Could be wrong, though.

 

[nomis]

Even after the game was patched the game still had a lot of troubles (aside from it being a port of the PS2 version and not the NGC one):
- terrible quality of FMVs (low resolution, washed out colors, low quality sound)
- no mouse support
- button icons were simple: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 etc. Try to guess which buttons you are supposed to press during a QTE when suddenly "1 + 5" flashes on the screen
- terrible performance

This was the worst fucking shit... I had mental blocked it from my mind.

 

[Yasae]

Saints Row 2 ran like ass
Bully was horrible without multiple patches

Saints Row 2 was real bad.

edit: Damn Beaten

I hope no one makes fools of themselves by saying Saints Row 2.

Saints Row 2, Force Unleashed, The Saboteur is literally unplayable in certain AMD cards, Dark Souls can be considered terrible limiting both resolution and framerate.

Not even a question: Saint's Row 2.

GTA4 was fine for me Day One on the PC, Saint's Row 2 still requires a wing and a prayer to make it run properly using community patches.

I cant run GTA IV above 30 FPS even with patches on a GTX 670. so it goes to that.

SAme with SAints Row 2, below 30 FPS.

Saints Row 2 no doubt, DMC3 in a close second but i can see Dark Souls getting mentioned in here a lot since is the most recent bad port released

Saints Row 2 sadly....

What a travesty.

Saints Row 2: Got hit by a nasty bug in Win7, fixed in Win8
Dark Souls: Runs well, rending code from the 90's aside (also weird K/M controls)
GTAIV (and SA, VC, 3) Poorly optimized, but at least the K/M controls don't stink


Let's talk about actual bad ports:
Sonic Generations/First Sonic Kart: WAY WAY WAY not optimized, weird keyboard crap
Resident Evil 4: what is a mouse
The entire Mega Man DOS series
Licensed games that use PS2 as the base platform for the PC port
The Lion King: driver issues made this port infamous at release
Gears of War: couldn't be played for a period of time due to the key being expired, saves going missing for no reason

Saints Row 2

50 years from now, it'll still be impossible to run properly.

Saints Row 2 was the worst one that i played.

I never had any problems with GTA IV except for a crash every once in a long while.

Saints Row 2 takes the cake for me. Unplayable, unsupported, and practically unforgivable. That was actually CDProjekt's fault, wasn't it?

huh. I had absolutely no issue with the OG All-Stars Racing. None of the ones you listed.

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Resident Evil 4
Devil May Cry 3
Saints Row 2
GTA IV
Dark Souls

worst of the worst

I vote for Resident Evil 4. Saints Row 2, Dark Souls, Dead Space etc. were all playable, but Resident Evil 4 was so damn fucked up that I did not play it for 5 minutes. I COULD NOT EVEN USE THE DAMN COMPUTER MOUSE!

You just can't make this shit up. Saints Row 2 was really that bad of a port.

 

[Visualante2]

I give Japan a free pass one time. Sure Capcom made mistakes farming out that port to Ubisoft.. but at the same time they have made good on it with their excellent PC work recently. Likewise I'm hopeful the PC version of Dark Souls II will perform wildly better than the original.

Grand Theft Auto IV had no excuse being what it was given the series' history on PC.

 

[CheesecakeRecipe]

The only problem it had was the lack of graphics options, plus the KB/M implementation. Controller is a way superior to play the game anyway.

There. Is. Nothing. Else.

No performance issue. No weird glitch found only in the PC version. Nothing. If that's a "disaster" then I wish every disaster was only like that.

Actually quite a lot of computers had trouble running the game even with DSFix because the port job was so shoddy. My computer was one of them, until one day it just magically worked without being a framerate killing hog. Can't tell you what fixed it but i'm not alone.

It was a super shit port.

 

[TheGreyHulk]

Saints row 2.

It ran worse than the 360 version. Terrible.

I heard MGS2 was terrible

 

[Arkanius]

Resident Evil 4 before the Lightning patch

 

[Shaneus]

I'll just leave this here. ;/

Port? Pretty sure it was released at the same time as the console versions. != port.


Can anyone confirm that with the Saint's 2 fix it plays at 60fps and is actually decent?

 

[Zeyphersan]

Without DSFix it's an absolute disaster.

If by "absolute disaster" you mean "completely playable outside, it just didn't have all the options I was looking for," then yes, you are correct.

Absolute disaster my ass. It was a straight console port. No frills, no graphical upgrades, just a straight port start to finish. They even SAID that's what it was going to be. Anyone who claims Dark Souls is the worst PC port hasn't played a lot of PC ports. Any other game listed here is a better contender for the title than that.

 

[glaurung]

I heard MGS2 was terrible

MGS2 was real badly optimized, but at least it worked - i.e. you could complete the game on PC without constant crashing.

My vote goes to Resident Evil 4. The first time I saw it on PC I thought they'd outsourced the port job to North Korea.

 

[k_trout]

If by "absolute disaster" you mean "completely playable outside, it just didn't have all the options I was looking for," then yes, you are correct.

Absolute disaster my ass. It was a straight console port. No frills, no graphical upgrades, just a straight port start to finish. They even SAID that's what it was going to be. Anyone who claims Dark Souls is the worst PC port hasn't played a lot of PC ports. Any other game listed here is a better contender for the title than that.

a pc game that absolutely requires a console controller is a bad port in my eyes

insert delete home end keys are not on my roster of usable game keys

 

[xJavonta]

Those of you that say GTA IV obviously haven't played many PC games lol

In terms of performance? Dark Souls runs like dogshit for me. Even GTA IV has no problem running at 50+ FPS on medium settings, but even on low Dark Souls just shits on my PC.

In other terms, Iron Man was fucking terrible. I played the same exact game on my PSP.
By that I mean it was a direct port of the PSP version. Not even the console version, the PS-fucking-P version of the game. What the actual fuck.

 

[KostasK]

Seriously? These are the games you have issues with?

I played GTAIV. I played in on my old PC. It wasn't perfect, but it had nothing game-breaking or too bad. It was technically just... OK. If that is so popular on this list, then I guess there are no bad ports...

DMC 3? You know it's a PS2 game, right? What were you expecting to see? 1080p and all new lighting FX?

Dark Souls? Really? Sorry, but I never had a trully high end PC. I am always with a PC that is average or slightly above that and play on a 24" monitor. I think I am part of the majority of PC games (albeit, probably not based on the kind of people that are in NeoGAF). I didn't have the slightest issue with the Dark Souls "hasty" port.

Same goes for Dead Space.

Same goes for Resi 4 (it's a freaking GameCube game, what did you expect to see).

Now, EA, is a different beast. I'll have to give you that.

Apart from the occasional crappy optimization that may make a game choppy (like a few FIFA or NFS games), there is also the NBA Live greatness. I had bought one of them (don't remember which) solely because it had added European games, only to find out that it was so choppy that it was unplayable.

Then again, it's only natural for EA to think that not that many people might have an Nvidia graphics card on their PC 6-7 years ago, right? I mean, it's not like they were very popular at the time...

THAT is what I call a bad port. Not "ow, I can't get true 1080p" stuff. Unplayable is what I call a "bad PC port".

 

[Yasae]

GTA IV is definitely not the worst port I've played. It's the worst install. No game in the history of man has made me jump through so many hoops to install, create a GFWL account, update the game through GFWL, had that fail, download the patch manually, then finally be able to play. It's an hour long process and as such, I'll never play GTA IV again.

Post patches you can run in the 40s and 50s with relatively high settings. Its efficiency is still rather poor, but it took a leap from release to its current state.

 

[jns]

Without DSFix it's an absolute disaster.

What utter hyperbole. I'd hazard a guess to say the most important thing DSfix does is allow for custom resolution. Even at 720P, the game still looks ok and in over 350 hours on PC, I've yet to have a single crash. A disastrous port would be unplayable, and Dark Souls doesn't fall into that category.

Hardly the worlds worst port.

 

[Vidal]

i had to give up on St Row 3rd
such bad performance for me

What gpu? I think there is a difference in not optimized and worst port ever. SR3 runs flawlessly with a 7970, but GTA IV... =/

 

[Septimius]

What utter hyperbole. I'd hazard a guess to say the most important thing DSfix does is allow for custom resolution. Even at 720P, the game still looks ok and in over 350 hours on PC, I've yet to have a single crash. A disastrous port would be unplayable, and Dark Souls doesn't fall into that category.

Hardly the worlds worst port.

Lazy might be a better way of putting it, seen how it was fixed in less than a day.

 

[k_trout]

What gpu? I think there is a difference in not optimized and worst port ever. SR3 runs flawlessly with a 7970, but GTA IV... =/

560ti 2 gig
but it runs terrible on all settings and rez

 

[Zeyphersan]

Same goes for Resi 4 (it's a freaking GameCube game, what did you expect to see).

Mouse control in a shooter? This one is completely justified. Any shooter on PC that has me aiming with my arrow keys is an abomination. Forget the visuals, let's talk about that for a second.

 

[c0de]

Obvious answer is obvious: FF7. The game was such a bad port, I have no words for it.
The backgrounds were horrible on PC, the sound was awful unless you had an AWE iirc, some screens showed Playstation-buttons (!!!) and loading-times were ridiculously bad.
The FMVs were also unbelievably bad - low res, full of artifacts.

 

[KojiKnight]

EIDOS original port of FF7. No way to improve graphics, terrible controls, completely downgraded audio, worse quality FMVs.... True it was all technically playable, but it's easily the worst PC port I've ever played.

(Edit) Sonnava... beaten by seconds!

 

[CheesecakeRecipe]

Seriously? These are the games you have issues with?

DMC 3? You know it's a PS2 game, right? What were you expecting to see? 1080p and all new lighting FX?

Same goes for Resi 4 (it's a freaking GameCube game, what did you expect to see).

DMC3 has an error with its sound that causes the game to become unplayable when you have the music turned on. The music, as it turns out, is a rather large part of the game and combo system. It's fundamentally broken. Being a PS2 game does not excuse this.

Resident Evil 4's lighting being broken, controls being absolute shit and other problems are also not excused by being a gamecube port. Silent Hill 2 and 3 were also PS2 games and other than one sound loop issue at launch with SH2 the two are some of the finest port jobs of that era. There were also plenty other games that were ported from that time that weren't missing entire systems.

 

[lazorexplosion]

Dark Souls, fuck that port. Not even the graphics improvements that take half an hour to implement were done, looks like shit while only running at 30fps, mouse implementation is literally the laziest thing you could do even though it's so bad it feels physically painful (also easily improvable by user made dll, too much effort for From Software though). And they put GFWL in it just to shit on it more. Twice the game just dumped me back in the main menu without warning because GFWL couldn't contact GFWL's obviously unreliable servers. What a shitpile. Makes GTA4 look better.

 

[KiteGr]

Gears of War

It was so unplayable that it wouldn't run for 5 straigt minutes without crashing for the patch to be downloaded.

 

[c0de]

EIDOS original port of FF7. No way to improve graphics, terrible controls, completely downgraded audio, worse quality FMVs.... True it was all technically playable, but it's easily the worst PC port I've ever played.

(Edit) Sonnava... beaten by seconds!

Man, that was so close!

 

[Shaneus]

Oh hey, can we get a shout-out for Trials Evolution? It's a newie but I don't think it's been mentioned.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=635871

I downloaded the Trials Evolution demo during the sale because it was a fun game on 360 and I wanted to check it out on PC.

It ran okay, but a little hitchy. No big deal, it was still totally playable and tons of fun so I decided to buy it.

Buy the game, download it, launch it. Uplay boots up, and then Trials attempts to start and I get this.

Broken PC game? Stop me if you've heard this one before.

Alright whatever, lets go to the Steam forums and look for a fix.

I get there and see

Game Crash after Press Start with Nvidia graphics? Please try this.
Hello all, if you are having issues with Trials Evolution: Gold Edition crashing after going through the splash screen, and you are running Nvidia 320 series beta drivers, can you try to downgrade to the 320.19 or 314.22 drivers? This has worked for quite a few players.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/win8-wi...ql-driver.html
http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/63458

I do it.

Doesn't work.

Me and another person both ask whether there are any plans to patch it and if this is the only recommended solution (since it didn't work.)

Jul 23, 2013 @ 7:08am
Is there a fix coming?

Jul 23, 2013 @ 11:21pm
Is this honestly the only recommended solution?

The response

Jul 24, 2013 @ 7:54am
Yes, beta drivers will cause issues for some players. Using the latest stable release drivers is recommended.

I responded with

Jul 24, 2013 @ 11:37am
320.49 are not beta drivers, they are the latest stable drivers and the game crashes on launch with them.

Are there any plans to release a fix with the latest driver version?

There has been zero response from either Ubisoft or the developer since then.

So I've done my own work and I've figured out that uPlay is the cause of Trials crashing.

When launching the game without uPlay installed it starts to load (further than it goes normally) and then it exits saying you need uPlay installed.

But, if you install a crack that allows you to play without uPlay, the game starts and runs perfectly fine.

The version of uPlay included with Trials Evolution is different than the current version that you're forced to update to and I believe it is the uPlay update that is causing the crash.

I'm hoping to either get some help, or some visibility so hopefully Ubisoft and RedLynx/Ubisoft Shanghai Studios can get this patched up and working again.

As it stands, the product that many serveral Nvidia users and myself payed for is completely non-functioning as it is being sold.

 

[Beerman462]

I just knew some drama queens would post Dark Souls. Dark Souls was completely playable, didn't crash and was better than the console version. Dark Souls PC's only sin was a lack of higher internal render resolution.

 

[Acerac]

a pc game that absolutely requires a console controller is a bad port in my eyes

insert delete home end keys are not on my roster of usable game keys

Worst PC port of all time.

Pretty confident I've talked to people who beat the game with a keyboard, mind you.

 

[Morrigan Stark]

I vote for Dead Space, if only for this travesty:

http://i.imgur.com/oWGRJZP.png

LMAO that is so fucking funny, thanks for posting

 

[Beerman462]

a pc game that absolutely requires a console controller is a bad port in my eyes

insert delete home end keys are not on my roster of usable game keys

So you play racing games with Mouse and Keyboard?

It kills me that people expect all PC games to be playable with M/KB, guess what. It doesn't work with every game and it shouldn't.

 

[Addnan]

I know GTAIV is not the best port, but at least it lets you change resolution and has m/k support.

Oh hey, can we get a shout-out for Trials Evolution? It's a newie but I don't think it's been mentioned.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=635871

I can almost agree with that. Not sure if it is the worst ever, but it is one of the worst in recent months that's for sure.

I'll just leave this here. ;/

What's wrong with RAGE? I know it had driver issues at launch, but that's been sorted out right? It seems to run pretty well.

 

[Edwards_Omatic]

GTA IV definitely gets my vote.

 

[Majima Everywhere System]

I played through and beat RE4 on PC. I turn off GTAIV everytime I feel guilty for purchasing it and turn it on. Black Ops didn't run for shit on hardware that was perfectly capable of running every COD before it at 60fps.

 

[Hypron]

What's wrong with RAGE? I know it had driver issues at launch, but that's been sorted out right? It seems to run pretty well.

Yeah it ran perfectly on the two computers I played it on (which both had AMD GPUs). I waited 2/3 weeks after release before playing the game though, but after that it ran really smoothly, and I only ever got texture pop-in for a couple of seconds after moving to a new area.

 

[Brerlappin]

Assassins Creed 2 was a bit of a travesty. Ran like a 3 legged dog, and those fucking button prompts. "Press Hand". "Press foot". WHAT FUCKING BUTTON IS FOOT??

 

[Sir_Crocodile]

Street Fighter 1 on DOS. I think the port was handled by US GOLD.

It was the second video game I ever played - my dad bought that and Prince of Persia twenty something years ago.

I understood that Prince of Persia was a hell of a lot more fun back then - SF1 just gathered dust - but as time has gone by I've come to realise what a steaming turd it was.

 

[Son1x]

I dunno about the worst... but I will say Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, as great a game as it is, is pretty much unplayable in certain areas on the PC. There's a horrible memory leak issue that makes the framerate drop constantly until you reload a save, so if you want anything close to acceptable, you have to constantly quicksave and quickload. (No patch was ever made to fix that, of course.)

But I've heard the console version has a lot of problems too, so maybe the PC version isn't technically a bad port.

Dark Messiah of Might and Magic was a PC game first so its not a port. It was later ported to xbox 360.

I don't think my framerate dropped like that, must have been something with certain graphic cards or whole series? Not that it makes it better.

 

[Lord British]

I didn't have problems with Dead Space. Turning off Vsync put it at 60fps. No other issues.

 

[120v]

Street Fighter 1 on DOS. I think the port was handled by US GOLD.

i was about to post that, but i didn't know if that counted as a "port" in the modern sense or not

anyway yeah that was literally the worst thing i've ever played

 

[Marvel]

Assassins Creed 2 was a bit of a travesty. Ran like a 3 legged dog, and those fucking button prompts. "Press Hand". "Press foot". WHAT FUCKING BUTTON IS FOOT??

Came to post this.

LOL.

 

[DarkLordMalik]

Resident Evil 4 hands down. It was a real shame to see a GOTY PC port being so horrible and dumbed down. It took quite a while before the modders/patches made it playable on PC.

Obvious answer is obvious: FF7. The game was such a bad port, I have no words for it.
The backgrounds were horrible on PC, the sound was awful unless you had an AWE iirc, some screens showed Playstation-buttons (!!!) and loading-times were ridiculously bad.
The FMVs were also unbelievably bad - low res, full of artifacts.

EIDOS original port of FF7. No way to improve graphics, terrible controls, completely downgraded audio, worse quality FMVs.... True it was all technically playable, but it's easily the worst PC port I've ever played.

(Edit) Sonnava... beaten by seconds!

AFAIK, the PC port was based on the beta code of the game.

 

[Hasney]

Already mentioned, but Saint's Row 2 was easily the worst of all time.

What, my processor is 500Mhz faster than an XBox 360 one, so it treats it like a 500Mhz processor? UNDERCLOCKING IT MADE IT FASTER. Pure insanity.

Could have easily been patched, but they just didn't give a fuck by that point and this is ignoring all the crashes the game has too.

560ti 2 gig
but it runs terrible on all settings and rez

That's odd. Got the same card and it works flawlessly. Pretty sure either everything was maxed out or only a couple of things scaled back too.

 

[ShirAhava]

SR2.....I just.....I don't even......I can't ever play a SR game because of that port......The console versions had issues but that was just....mannnnn


The GTAIV responses.....I don't get it...game ran flawlessly for me and I didn't even have a gaming PC at the time 9500gt....GTAIV ran like a dream
....GTAIV is soooooooooooooo far from the "worst port of all time"

 

[k_trout]

So you play racing games with Mouse and Keyboard?
It kills me that people expect all PC games to be playable with M/KB, guess what. It doesn't work with every game and it shouldn't.

damn right
i gots teh leet micro skillz
tippity tap tap - 1st place

lol i dont play alot of racing games

games released on pc should as priority focus on keyboard and mouse
thats my opinion anyway

 

[Zeyphersan]

Assassins Creed 2 was a bit of a travesty. Ran like a 3 legged dog, and those fucking button prompts. "Press Hand". "Press foot". WHAT FUCKING BUTTON IS FOOT??

By default, E is head, Shift is hand, and Space is foot. It's descending on a keyboard from highest to lowest, like the body parts.