It has, however, become incredibly annoying to play the game for about 30 minutes, only to have it start to take its toll on my system My computer would overheat, or overcache, or something, and would start to drop frames (i.e. In the mean time, I still would like to play Left 4 Dead, my favorite game this year (so far).
I should buy some more RAM for it eventually. There’s no viruses (virii?) on it, its relatively well optimized, but it just can’t keep up with the demands I’ve been placing on it. Recently, my computer has been running slowly.