Er, well, glad the problem is fixed for you in any case! Everything I've been seeing about the ATI cards is pointing to a driver bug, so I'm afraid those using ATI will have to make do until someone fixes it.
Another driver bug prevents rendering of the specular lighting in the FS2_Open engine builds for FreeSpace 2, so it looks just like normal FS2 lighting. This one can be fixed by downgrading your drivers to an older version, but you lose a lot of performance in other games by doing that. I don't see why the Catalyst drivers aren't as good as custom drivers. Can't they implement the fixes that are currently only available in custom drivers?
Has anyone noticed that this place is less active than it used to be?
*watches tumbleweed roll by*