It's not just games -- I've run into wayDX is fairly harmless in that it won't let you put an old version on top of a new version... But some business software is even worse:
Quickbooks 2001 (IIRC) insisted in installing IE5, and blows up if you already had IE6.
Or back in the day of Visual Basic (5?) It insisted you should install Internet Explorer 3.02, despite IE 4 on the machine. And if you finally convince it that you REALLY don't want 3.02, it still puts the install icon prominently on the desktop, just in case.
out of all vendors, you'd think that at least Microsoft themselves would bother to check if there happens to be a *newer* version already installed before trying to install the old one...
Quickbooks 2001 (IIRC) insisted in installing IE5, and blows up if you already had IE6.
Or back in the day of Visual Basic (5?) It insisted you should install Internet Explorer 3.02, despite IE 4 on the machine. And if you finally convince it that you REALLY don't want 3.02, it still puts the install icon prominently on the desktop, just in case.
out of all vendors, you'd think that at least Microsoft themselves would bother to check if there happens to be a *newer* version already installed before trying to install the old one...