I emailed Digital Extremes luckily had a little more progress there. The first response I got was that they weren't involved with the PC version and that I'd have to talk to Aspyr. To which I basically replied "so you're cool with some other developer mangling your hard work, and if not, could you talk to them because the only people I can get to are idiot support reps?" (as nicely as I could) and luckily - no, they are not cool with it :wink:
This is the last email I got back from them:
An update…spoke to Aspyr and they said Noviy Disk is working on a patch. We’re forwarding this problem to include a fix if they didn’t know about it already.
So while Joe Schmoe support rep at Aspyr is obviously clueless, looks like there is progress being made
somewhere.
I'm still not sure I'd put any faith in a patch ever coming out anyway, but it's a little ray of hope at least.