Hi. I seem to be running into some rather serious graphical bugs with this game. Character models have some of their polygons stretched way out, weird discolouration on some textures, etc. In an effort to fix this, I updated my graphics card drivers and now the game will suddenly drop to a ridiculously low framerate until I exit it.

Anyone have any insight into this, or am I screwed?

I'm running Windows 7 64-bit and have a nVidia GTX 570 graphics card, if that helps.

Edit: Ok, I tried manually disabling a few of the options in the "Graphics" menu (ADV shading, V-sync, etc.) one-by-one and I couldn't isolate a cause that way. As a bonus, I've attached a picture of the most common bug I'm experiencing. See that weird two dimensional plane projected across the center of my screen? What the hell is that?

That look like common artifact glitch caused by GPU overheat or overclock. But firs,t did you try running the game with Administrator or compatibility mode?

Do you have the latest drivers for your graphics card? It's worth installing the latest as they often fix problems, even ones arising in older games (because you're running those games on a modern OS).