I'm having no-win situations with some games lately.
(1) Many years ago, I bought Titan Quest on disks. When the expansion came out, I bought that from Direct2Drive. Played fine. A year or so ago, GameFly bought D2D, but any games bought on D2D still worked. A few weeks ago, I decided to play TQ again, so tried to fire it up. It wouldn't run. So I uninstalled the retail TQ and D2D expansion and downloaded both from GameFly. Still wouldn't run. (I was running as an administrator and under XP compatibility.) Running just the game (rather than the launcher) actually gave me an error message about a file being missing. "OK," I thought, "maybe the download TQ is not the full game, but is just the part needed for multiplayer."
So I got my old TQ disk, installed it, and tested it. Ran fine. Install the expansion. Nothing. Finally, I sent tech support an e-mail. They told me their version of the expansion does not run with the retail disk and to download it again and try to run just TQ. It won't run. The "missing" file is actually in the install directory. I set Norton to allow everything in the directory when I download and install. Nothing. I set Norton to allow TQ. Nothing. Finally, tech support tells me they cannot help me and for me to contact Norton.
(2) I fired up Skyrim on the 360 today. I had to go to Dawnstar for a quest, and when I did, the daedra/nightmare quest started. So I start it and progress along, saving a few times. Then I tried to save and the console locked up. Cursing, I rebooted and reloaded. Froze again. I thought maybe there was a bad spot on the drive (since I was saving over another save), so deleted the save I was saving over, then selected "New Save." Froze. Thinking maybe my most recent save was corrupted, I loaded an earlier save and progressed, saving successfully at the same place I had saved before. Then I went on, tried to save, and it locked. I checked the wiki and it said a recent patch had broken that part, and saving after a certain event in that quest caused the 360 to lock and the PC to crash to dashboard. It went on to say playing through without saving and with autosave turned off would take care of the bug. It also said leaving the castle where the quest is (back to Skyrim) and saving outside should also solve the problem. I turned off autosave and continued, but there is an autosave at the end of that quest that cannot be turned off. Locked again. Going outside, fast traveling and fast traveling back also locked the console. In the end, that playthrough seems to be completely lost. It also seems that quest cannot be completed until there is a patch that fixes it. Since that quest is required for 2 achievements (getting 15 daedric artifacts and buying and upgrading all three houses), I hope it gets fixed!