Black Ops is a really cool game. It will become the best of the COD series. I stared playing on COD5 first so I got stuck on that, it took several patches to get things right, it is a great game and it continues to get better. So in time Black Ops with all of the new features never before seen in COD will be a really great game. Look at all of the versataility this game has. Face paint, gun paint, etc. etc., that has to add to the problems as well. It takes at least a double core processor because of all of the different processes running at one time. A lot of peoples problems is their computer or computer settings.
We can't fix what we can't fix, so ride the ride and see how good it will become. It will take time. It has shown great improvement already. It is an awesome game. I never had much trouble, except some lag. And that is virtually fixed.
I am not a steam fan, but that is what we got, so we have to deal with it. One advantage with Steam is that the patches and such will be downloaed automatically when you start the game, I hated to have to go search for the best place to download a patch.
So there will be a silver lining someday.
Hang in there. What the hell else can we do?