Holy mother, why is everything so freakin' hard for me?
Ok, game is now running again.
Let's see, uninstalled the 4.2's and installed the 4.3's, reinstalled the patch, screwed with the settings on my card, dropped my desktop the same resolution as the game (1024x768x32), rebooted too many times to count, dropped the refresh rate from 85hz to 70hz and loaded a level back from where I had my last save, and YES!! It works again.
It sems like I'm the only one who is having any problems like this. The funny thing is that after all that, I think if I had dropped the refresh rate in the first place it probably would have worked fine.
Although, why did it work before

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Wicked game though. If it wasn't I wouldn't be feckin around so much with it.
/me has bad temper and would normally smashy, smashy.
You should see the part I'm at now, you have to....while you....