Stuttering, Small freezes and framerate Issues

[Jazz]

Okay. So here's what I did:

I reverted back to really, really old drivers. Catalyst 11.11, to be exact. I didn't have anything to lose... Or so I thought. Because Amnesia runs on OpenGL, I thought that maybe reverting to those old drivers might do the trick since id's Rage only runs on my PC using those exact drivers.

Guess what? No improvement what-so-ever. Along the way of uninstalling and reinstalling I ran into a "Steam client bootstrapper" error also. That sounds a bit kinky, doesn't it? "Bootstrapper." Anyway: I couldn't get Steam to run again. I knew those AMD/ATI drivers suck in a notorious kind of way (I found out the hard way a month ago), but I didn't know they were also able to totally f*ck up unrelated software. Afterwards I found out I suddenly had to force Windows 7 compatibility/administrator rights through Steam's throat. Never had to do that before! F*ckin' A.

Disabling/enabling Catalyst AI didn't do squat either. So yeah, I learned something new today: never underestimate AMD's drivers. Things are really clear to me now: I will never buy anything remotely related to AMD again. But hey, I'm stuck here with this piece of sh*t old PC that otherwise functions fine and runs recent games pretty well, so I would like AAMFP to run. AMD's ability to suck on incredible incomprehensible levels isn't an excuse for FPS drops.

I think I've had my share of troubleshooting today, so I will just wait silently in the corner until Steam starts updating...