Boiling Point: Road to Hell

Upon launching the game, I get the dreaded "font too big" crash. I looked into it, and many people recommend lowering the scaling to 100% before launching the game and changing the game's .ini file to match my screen resolution. Neither of these worked for me. I wasted an hour trying to figure this out myself. The only way for me to get the game to run was to run it in compatiblity mode with Windows XP and disable fullscreen optimizations. I also had to check the two DPI boxes and selected "system enhanced." But, this only works if you bypass the games's launcher and GOG launcher. I bypassed these launchers by going into the game's folder and launching the Xenus executable. This launched the game, and it ran just fine, but once I quit out, I got a different error trying to launch the game again. The only way to play this game is to verify the game's cache and go through this compatibility process again. What a headache. This game requires a 3rd party unofficial update or mod to work, as it's broken out of the box for me. I can't support a game that falsly advertises working on Windows 10 and AMD hardware, so I just refunded it.

Its fun but pretty outdated gameplay. It's also very buggy.

I do not take any pleasure beating up an old game like this, that has a genuine commodity of open world realism. While it has many faults. It does have the appeal of being open enough, similar to say Morrowind. But with so many bugs. So much is also lost here. A true rebuilt is needed to bring the mechanics up to modern game expectation. Playing this in 2024, feels like a good proof of concept at best. Playing the stock game is a mess. Playing with fan made patches still cannot make the game better. Graphics do not matter here at all. To some, it may be offputting. But what really breaks everything, is poor controls. So terrible are they, that everything you try to do, feels wrong. Its like trying to drive a car...while you are gagged and hogtied in the back seat of it. Its bad. Then there is the complete lack of logic, to just about every action that makea your character behave insane. Yet no reaction by npc. Eating food as a health restore is on par with medical items. More broken stuff you ask? Pull a weapon outside the bar and kill people, with no reaction. Walk inside and you cant pullout a weapon. Go back outside and keep open the door and throw a grenade inside. Kill people inside annddddd.....casually order a drink wtf!?? It is such a mess. You cant lean left/right. Iron sights view is....another mess. Sorry folks. The entire game is a dumpster fire of could be ground breaking. But just fails from everything not meeting expectation of function. Is it fair to compare to modern games? Yes! Why? Because it feels like nobody had any clue how to design even simple controls. Just adjusting the option settings crashed the game! I dont even want this game for free, having actually played it. You have been warned. The die hard fans rather blow smoke up yer backside, rather than concede it is a broken mess.

Saul Meyers is about to reach his boiling point

I have no guide for this game. However have been able to die a few times to further my navigation. I'm stilll exspirencing momentary freezes. My CPU is more than adaquate to handle the game. So I'm not quite sure why. The games story is really getting interesting too. Music & sound effects are great. Lots of suprises in both game action & people interactions.