Four months after Warner Bros. took the seriously broken PC version of down from Steam , the game officially went back on sale last night at a slightly reduced price of $50—and with some downloadable freebies by way of apology . The re-release also comes with a new patch meant to make the game more playable, but early indications suggest that many of the same problems are still afflicting the troubled port.

Some of those problems are apparent just from the patch notes. Warner Bros. still acknowledges "a hard drive paging issue with some GPUs on Windows 7" that requires players to periodically restart the game to fix. That's a pretty major issue for a big-budget game that's technically been out for months now. WB says it's also still working with GPU makers to "address stability issues on certain cards related to the latest drivers."

But the most galling bit may apply to Windows 10 users, who Warner Bros. says should have "at least 12GB of system RAM on a PC [to allow] the game to operate without paging and provide a smoother gameplay experience." That's an unprecedented requirement for a PC game; even a graphically demanding title like The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt only recommends 8GB of RAM at the high end, and it can get by with 6GB. It's also a surprising admission considering that the game runs fine on an Xbox One with much less RAM (and an essentially similar operating system and DirectX drivers).

Going a little deeper, Eurogamer's Digital Foundry reports that the new release "has seen no further improvements" since an interim patch released back in September. While some players are reporting better performance after the patch, many are continuing to note remaining performance problems in new negative reviews on Steam.

"If you're running a top-of-the-line system, you might find this playable (although that's not a guarantee) but otherwise you should stay away for performance reasons alone," one reviewer wrote. "I was one of the lucky, hated few for whom, on release, the game worked well for... Now the game crashes every 120 seconds in the batmobile, and around every 8 minutes on foot," wrote another.

Back in June, Warner Bros. said, "We want to do whatever we can to make the experience better for PC players overall." Although the game is available for sale again, it looks like the company still has more to do.