Modern gaming keyboards and mice often have of 1000Hz or higher. Some versions of Clone Hero struggle to process this much input data while simultaneously rendering notes, leading to a "buffer overflow" style crash.
The game launched, but differently. The title screen was wrong. Instead of the usual neon logo, it displayed a vintage 1998 interface: beige windows, blocky fonts. A single line of text pulsed in the center: “LOADING UNFINISHED RIFF #47.” clone hero keeps crashing