MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - That's it. I'm getting a gun and killing everyone.

"WHY?!" you ask?

Mother was recently visiting a friend, friend's kid got her to play 'Viva Pinata' on the Xbox. She loved it.

I buy a copy for her PC. (Since she doesn't have an Xbox.)

Turns out you need a Windows Live login to be able to save your fucking games. Good lord. So we set one of those up. No thank you, I would NOT like to read the Gmail account that I just set up on Hotmail, thanks for asking though.

Then I spent over an hour trying to install a Microsoft 'Games for Windows' game on a Microsoft Windows machine. A game that's marked as fully compatible for both 32-bit AND 64-bit Windows 7, so surely for fucking GOD it'll run on the 32-bit version, right? Right?

WRONG, SIR! WRONG!!!

It installs but tells you that you have to log into your Live account to enable game saves. To login now just hit the [HOME] key.

[HOME] key hit, nothing happens. Run as administrator and hit [HOME] key, nothing happens. Look online, tons of people hitting the fucking [HOME] key, tons of people getting nothing to happen. Lots of technical voodoo attempted in the CMD line, nothing happens. Trying shit that a "normal" user would be horrified to try, nothing happens.

I'd go into another 'FUCK MIRCOSOFT' rant but frankly I'm too exhausted. I'd actually be amused if I wasn't so pissed off. She REALLY wanted to play that game so now I've got to figure it out. Rage.