Sorry.. False alarm. One of the annoying things about this bug is that even though on my system it usually surfaces within a minute of playing, on rare occasions it will take up to 15-20 minutes or so. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to when it takes longer to show up as it doesn't only happen when I try new settings.
Here is my current configuration:
Driver Version: 96.89 (97.02 is the first 8800 driver, but 96.89 is the oldest one that will actually install that I've found).
Settings:
_Anistropic Filtering_
Use global setting (application-controlled)
<Application Controlled>
Off
2x
4x
8x
16x
_Antialiasing - Gamma correction_
Use global setting (on)
<Off>
On
_Antialiasing Mode_
Use Global Setting (on)
<Application Controlled>
Off
Enhance Application Setting
Override Application Setting
_Antialiasing Setting *Only Avail Depending on Above*_
<Use global setting (application-controlled)>
2x
4x
8x
8xq
16x
16xq
_Antialiasing - Transparency_
Use Global Setting (off)
<Off>
Multisampling
Supersampling
_Conformant Texture Clamp_
Use Global Setting (Use Hardware)
<Off>
Use OpenGL Specification
Use Hardware
_Error Reporting_
Use Global Setting (Off)
<Off>
On
_Extension Limit_
Use Global Setting (Off)
<Off>
On
_Force Mipmaps_
Use Global Setting (none)
<None>
Bilinear
Trilinear
_Multi-Diplay/mixed-GPU Acceleration_
Use Global Setting (Multiple Display Performance)
Single Display Performance Mode
<Compatability Performance Mode>
Multiple Display Performance Mode
_Texture Filtering - Anistropic Sample Optimization_
Use Global setting (off)
<Off>
On
_Texture Filtering - Negative LOD Bias_
Use Global Setting (Allow)
Allow
<Clamp>
_Texture Filtering - Quality_
Use Global Setting (Quality)
High Quality
Quality
Performance
<High Performance>
_Texture Filtering - Trilinear Optimization_
Use Global Setting On
<Off>
On
_Threaded Optimization_
Use Global Setting (Auto)
Auto
<Off>
On
_Triple Buffering_
Use Global Setting (On)
<Off>
On
_Verticle Sync_
<Use Global Settings (Use 3d application settings)>
Use 3d Application Setting
Off
On
There was something new that I noticed about the bug. As noted earilier, sometimes it flickers to white and sometimes it flicker to another sky texture. I did notice last night that when I was getting flickering to a cloudy sky texture, the texture seemed to be skewed the wrong direction. Also at one point at night the sky was the standard black sky with stars. I started to get flickering with red and green, then BAM, the Aurora Borealis overlay effect suddenly displayed across the whole sky (as I'm guessing it should have been doing before the flickering).
