I have to agree. This game really is just a patch and some slider tweaks away from being one of the best sports games ever.
Funny story though. I was getting really frustrated with all the stuttering and what not so as a last ditch before forking over the money for a new GPU, I decided to give my PC a good cleaning to see if that would help any. While cleaning I accidentally broke one of the fan blades on my card
The only spare card I had laying around was an old dusty 1gb gt 430 from like 2 builds ago. Funny part is, with everything on medium and special effects turned off, I get less stuttering on an ancient card that barely even meets the minimum requirements than I did with a 4gb Gt 640 or my regular gtx 750.