
This made tracing the culprit a lot harder, but PC gamers are nothing if not a dedicated and hardy bunch, and some clever souls came up with a solution. Unlike most bugs which can be traced to a certain combination of PC hardware and drivers causing conflicts with a game’s software code, the problem affected players on a wide variety of PC setups. Left 4 Dead 2 marked a bit of a departure from this norm when a significant number of users started reported a severe bug that caused the entire game to crash back to the Windows desktop - frustrating enough in an offline game, but in a co-operative online shooter absolutely catastrophic.

Valve’s latest games are all based on their proprietary Source Engine, which is not only very streamlined and well-optimized but also
