Area 51 PC

[BarryB]

Just try a couple of things:

1. Disable 'Fast Writes' either in BIOS or in ATI SmartGART options.
2. Drop RAM Speed in ATI tool by 10Mhz
These cured problems for me in some games.

[Gladjag]

Thanks BarryB
Tried yuor suggestions and no change. I even tried changing some configs in Vid setting I.E. 3D and OpenGL and same result.

I guess I will have to resign myself from playing this game.
Wish they would have put in some more detailled Vid adjustements in game set-up.

[DABhand]

Think of the possibility that the overclocking has done some damage to your card.

It doesnt matter if you used ATI's OC util or someone elses. As soon as you overclock a card over its max default it will start to degrade.

[TonyMacaroni]

I dont think the card was damaged by overclocking. If this happens, you usually wouldn't be able to play a game at all because the screen stays dark.
Simply wait till the next patch or Catalyst driver releases.

[BarryB]

There is an updated StarForce EXE/DLL to fix a crash bug with Intel onboard graphic chips, I know you don't have that but you could try it and see if it helps!

http://data.area51-game.com/pc_patches/A51_patch_us.exe

[Gladjag]

Thaanks Barry,
Already beat you to the punch on that one.
tried it same prob.

The funny thing is that the Characters seems like they are tearing and not completly showing up. Tried playing the game a bit to see if there would be a change. No luck same prob, except that sometimes they charracters partially show up.

[BarryB]

Reading through the readme.txt it states Radeon 9800 through 9500, doesn't mention the 9000 so it may not be fully supported, although that card does support pixel/vertex shaders.