The game programing is a living hell
let me summarize what happened to me while playing the game:
1-first I discovered that it has starforce on it so I waited for the gold version to show up then I didn't know if it had starforce on it or not and had to look up the internet for 5 hours then I finally knew that gold doesn't have starforce
2-I played the game and the first map won't even load and gave me a message about "access violation" and after 3 hours searching the web I found out that "sf2_base05.pak" file is corrupted and downloaded a 500 MB fixed file from the net to be able to play the game
3-the game worked well and then after 10-15 min the Graphics driver crashes and causes the game to crash so I had to search the internet again for 5 hours and found out about editing "reg edit" and adding a rule that doesn't make the graphics driver to crash if the game doesn't respond in 2 sec and changing that rule to 8 sec
4-the game worked well until I entered sevenskeep map after 4-5 hours of playing to find the game lagging like crazy giving me 5 fps when fighting and when normal inside town 16-30 fps
even after changing the settings to lowest it wouldn't make any difference. even thought I played fallout 3 and Elders scrolls 4 and Splinter Cell Conviction on high settings without any problems.
so I suggest that you buy a trash can with this game so that you can throw it in there once you are done
my specs are:
Pentium 4 dual core 3.4
Ram 4GB DDR 2
Geforce 9600 GTS