Red Faction: Guerrilla

During my previously-glogged playthrough of Red Faction: Guerrilla, I had my graphics settings near (but not at) their highest. I thought the game looked great, but could run better in certain circumstances - especially during occasions of heavy on-screen activity. Well, I just plugged in a new graphics card, and turned the graphics all the way up, after which, the game had a periodic stutter making it mostly unplayable.

The Internet suggested that I turn off Ambient Occlusion, so I did that, and now it runs too fast. Not just fast enough to make me think it was slow, before; fast enough to be unreasonably fast. In fact, this'll happen if I lower any graphics settings at all. It seems like the game just isn't designed to throttle itself correctly.

This is apparently a known issue running RF:G (and Saints Row 2?) in Win7, and Volition has no intention of fixing it. Thanks, assholes.

I also had a ton of difficulty getting the game to run in the first place - there is a whole rigamarole to go through in applying a patch, thanks to Games for Windows LIVE - but I was willing to write that off as a fluke. I guess the free DLC was to make up for not doing due diligence in debugging the PC version.

It's a shame to say, because the game is stupid fun and plays great with a mouse, but maybe you are better off with a console version.

Progress: Liberated Mars