Looks scary, can I play it with the lights off?

Hey! I have a problem and it is that the achievements are blocked. I have already met the requirements of several but they do not appear as completed. I need a solution and I hope you can help me.

Set resolution, etc, all seems fine, start game and I'm stuck in the corner on, around 1/3 of the screen. This is not acceptable. Don't give me the old, "fiddle with this and fiddle with that, bull", I expect it to WORK out of the box.

I just started the game and made it to the scarecrow battle but I can't fight him cause once he goes up in the air he doesn't come down and I can't hit him so he just kills me due to not coming down, tried restarting the game and my computer

The other day, I tried downloading and starting up the game to try and give it another shot despite the weird display issue and such that I mentioned in my review I posted, only to find it perpetually on the boot screen with the loading wheel round the Steam logo. It used up 3 minutes of my play time on it even though the game was not on yet. I try it again today, thinking it was cause I tried setting up the DirectX thing, and redownloaded it again. It still did not want to boot. I have zero idea how thi...