Mmmkay. Let me explain a bit better.
I load the game. I see the main menu. I click on New Game. I click on Create Custom Character. Then I click on Portraits (when I can). Most heads have black eyes (as if they don't have eyes at all). Some heads have pieces of their hair black. When I finish with all this, the game comes around and I can begin play. While I'm playing the game, I see no apparent graphics issues (except when my Character's eyes in a cutscene on the Ebon Hawk in the Prologue just before Peragus).
I have turned practically everything off, turned shadows off, turned grass off, I have it on the lowest resolutions, etc.
The game still runs very slowly. My character runs in circles half the time and sometimes won't even move.
So...in short...it's both.
I've tried playing the game anyway and managed to beat the prologue (however, it was very frustrating).
On Peragus, this is where the real trouble began. Half the time my character would run in circles, other times I couldn't get him to budge even an inch and if I was LUCKY, I could get out of the room, activate the console to open the door to the morgue, go into the morgue and take the torch and talk to Kiea, barely able to leave and bash open the door and go into the next room. This is where my character refuses to budge. Of course, I did all this while having to suffer through constant running in circles. My game ended there because my character refuses to budge, can't even check the dead bodies in here at all or click on the door to the left.
My game runs so bad that in order to actually get ANYWHERE, I have to click on an object and my character goes to it, most of the time I can't even move to the object myself because of constantly moving in circles or not even being able to move.
Any help, if you can, would be great. Thanks.