Came across this Wiki here, which is Hellbent on listing every known issue with every known PC game, along with its solutions. We all know that some games don’t work, crash randomly, or have more compatibility issues than people who believe in the Zodiac.
As it stands, the list of games is only about two pages long across three columns at time of writing, the wiki page for each individual game lists some mods, known issues, and sometimes detailed solutions. As a wiki this can be edited by anyone, and this opens up a ton of potential.
Tech support forums are laden with “HELP HELP HELP!!”, “HOW DO I FIX THIS?????”, “HOW DO I FIX {your problem here only you and him have}??????? nvm I fixed it”, “OMG I HAV THE SAEM PRBLM 2!!”, “I’LL PM U”, and the two words that should carry the death penalty on a tech support thread of any kind; “Google it”. They are also filled with, pardon my French, shitty advice like “defrag ur hd”, “disable ur antivirus”, “ur pc sux”, obvious things that make most users who know their computers wish there was a way to email a punch to the face.
Though this is just starting out, it already lists problems, details, and solutions for a handful of games, and an issue that I was having with World of Warcraft was fixed by forcing DX11, thanks to this page. If you know the solution to obscure problems, then maybe you should consider contributing to the wiki to help it get off the ground, because something like this is such a brilliant idea it makes me wonder why nobody did it before.
Rian Quenlin
I previously posted this and forgot the link, this is what happens when you live on pizza for three days and don’t sleep.
Andrew Tsai
I added some info on the issue in WoW. The wiki is doing great, but somed a bit of cleanup :).