4x dead. PC games dying. Gave away PC. :(

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Wow Hugh, I take it you have had some bad problems in the past
Ive never had any of these problems ever (Some EA games excluded, and Ubisoft sometimes)

For my PC: Power up: Rarely longer than 20seconds, place CD in tray, I have auto run disabled by pref., so hit exe. and thats it, I play until Im bored or wants/needs to do something else
IF I do need a patch, well, its a perfect excuse to do some house work/something else for a few minutes
And plus, like instar said, XBox is also using patches, and they wont take any longer to d/l cos they are on the same connection after all

As long as your OS is configured properly and is 2k or XP, you tend to be fine (Yes its microsoft, so I will agree that it can be a big pain in the rear at times)

And anyway I was referring to playing different games, not the same one over