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@davidjc_af: Thank you so much for your help. After deciding I was not, after all, someone who was comfortable futzing with the registry, I decided to try a system restore; thankfully Windows had updated something or other just this morning. Seems to have worked; I guess all I lost were a couple of King's Bounty: Crossworlds save games. Which is what I'm going to go play now. @Frogboy: I do appreciate that Stardock has put you in a bad position with this

@ davidjc_af: Thank you. I appreciate it.

@Frogboy: First off, I'm NOT the only one with the initial issue, otherwise I wouldn't have read at least a half-dozen posts on the same topic, and Kryo wouldn't have offered up the fix he did. Second, I don't care if I'm the only person in the history of the universe with this problem, the fact of the matter is that my computer doesn't work and your game is the reason why. Now, if you're done telling me how wrong I am for feeling upset in these circumstances, I would grea

@Fearzone, @davidjc_af: Yeah, I've tried installing from Catalyst "full", and a "manual" install (which still runs Catalyst, really) from the ATI website you linked to. It goes through the whole install, then says "Install Failed" for the display driver, with no other explanation.

@Frogboy: "What would you have us do?" How about giving step-by-step instructions for fixing my rig that's now broken because I FOLLOWED KRYO'S INSTRUCTIONS. And don't patronize me; "your anger is misdirected"? Your game doesn't work with one of the most common OS/video card combinations out there AFTER EIGHT PATCHES FROM RETAIL RELEASE and you're blaming it on the driver?!? I appreciate that you personally are only trying to do your job, and are probably not

Okay, I'm getting: " There is no driver selected for the device information set or element." Whenever I try and install the driver through the device manager. Catalyst just says the installation "failed". Your help getting my system working properly again would be greatly appreciated.

Well, I wiped my drivers, and now Catalyst "fails" to install, so I have no video drivers. Thank you very much, Stardock. Now, instead of having a game that I paid $50 that doesn't work, I paid $50 to break my computer. What is wrong with you people that you would release a product in a state like this?!?

"At this stage, the technical issues that were present at launch should be fully addressed." HAhaha! Oh, Stardock, I had such high hopes for this game. I've been looking forward to it for months. And now -- for the first time ever -- I'm going to go and request a refund for a game. I'm still getting the graphics artifacts all over the map (wherever there's any kind of terrain feature) that render the game completely unplayable. I waited a two weeks af

My GPU bumps up about 5 degrees (from 46-47C at idle to 51-52C) while running Elemental. FYI, ATITool doesn't run under Windows 7, although I found a gadget (GPU Observer) that does the same thing. Thank you for your help and attention.

Did a complete reinstall; did nothing to fix the problem.

The pastebin link for my debug.err file is: http://pastebin.ca/1935242 Lots of warnings therein about being unable to find 'lambert2SG' and 'InitialShadingGroup'. @ArcaneBoozery: They artifacts look similar, although in my case it's the whole landscape blowing up, not just particular elements of scenery and such. Also, mine takes place immediately, as soon as I start a game, every time.

I'm running an ATI Radeon 5600 HD. Whenever I get into the game proper, I've got a huge spitball of shifting, blinking graphics artifacts all over the center of the screen. I can zoom in and out, and it looks like the junk only covers the areas NOT covered by the fog of war, and are "projected" from the left (as though there's a point off to the left where they're being generated from). I can see the game's graphics under the junk, but they're so bad as to render the game co