Navagon: Error messages that exacerbate the very fucking problem they're reporting. Just what the ungodly fuck is that shit about?
So the game crashes to desktop. Big deal. Not the end of the world. I've played enough Fallout 3 to be able to live with that crap. I just go straight back into the game.
That's because with Fallout 3 I bloody can. No painfully retarded error messages pop up under the game's now completely black screen for the sole purpose of telling me what I already know. Only it's not telling me that because I can't fucking see that shit, because of the black screen it's holding into place over it.
If all error messages were removed from every piece of software on the market they'd be taking half the errors with them.
Whenever stuff like that happens to me (crash to desktop, no apparent error message) I look around for error logs. Many games write a log to their folder. That has helped me figure out things over the years.