What do you think should be the default resolution? After all if the default resolution is higher than some people's computers can use then it's going to cause problems for them.
Isn't it kind of obvious? The default resolution should be what your desktop resolution is set to.
Also:
Games that store hundreds of megs of random stuff all over your hard drive outside of their install directoryWhen I install a game and choose where to put the game to (there are games that don't even do that! I'm looking at
you, Minecraft, and your fucking users/name/appdata(hidden by default, by the way)/roaming/ path) and then the games goes and dumps hundreds of megs of stuff into a completely different folder, even on a different partition/harddrive! WHY is it industry standard to have games dump save games, configurations, even custom downloadable content (such as player-made multiplayer maps for UT3) into Documents/MyGames/Company Name/Game Name/ ? If the intention is to keep everything to one particular place then they've failed hard in their execution, because the most logical place to put data and files related to a game is
in the same bloody place where the game is installed! And they couldn't even agree on a convention, instead some games go into Documents/Company/Game Name instead!
My main drive where windows is installed is on a separate SSD with limited memory. I only use this SSD for windows and other small, important programs that I wish to have fast boot times for. I have a separate hard disk that keeps games and other stuff on it.
And what's worse is that some of devs for these games are so incompetent that they hardcode the path for these files rather than using the environment variables (%USER PROFILE%, for example). I once wanted to install some game I don't remember on a work laptop that didn't have a drive called "C:", and the game couldn't even install because of that.
/end rant. sorry.