I just purchased this game via digital download and have yet to be able to play it. The cut scenes and menus all render without any problems, but as soon as I get to the actual playable portion of the game, I cannot see anything through the weird geometric shapes covering the screen, blacked out portions, and static portions on the screen.
I have sent an email and the response was to replace the graphics xml file with one they provided a link to yet all it did was reset the options to default.
I have tried changing each of the graphics options individually to each of the different setting to find very little effect other than render shadows causes most of the blacked out portion of the screen.
I also run into problems with the game crashing, not showing up in task manager under running applications, but shows up as a running process that I have to manually end.
Another problem is that the game will sometimes try to load then crash without any error message and "check online for a solution" does nothing.
System specifics:
OS: Win7 Home 64-bit
CPU: E8500 Intel core2Duo
MB: XFX NVIDIA 790i Ultra SLI
Ram: 8GB DDR3
HDD: 2x 500GB
Monitors: 2x 23" Samsung LED (1920 x 1080)
GPU: XFX ATI HD5770 XXX edition (current drivers 10.3 CCC) HD-577A-ZNDC
Dual Monitor Support: Ultramon 3.0.10
I truly hope that I did not just waste money on a game that is completely unplayable. I really do not like the fact that this retail version of a program requires so many manipulations to get to work, if it is able to get to work correctly. I have had no problems with other games at full resolution and graphics settings maxed out.
