Hi - I've just played FS1 for the first time, and straightaway there seems to be a problem.

Most, but not all, of the game's text displays flicker and flash. It'll be impossible to even think of playing the game with such a distraction - not to mention it'll give you migraines like the old Amiga "interlace mode" used to!!!!!

This is just the front-end "inside the base" and the options screens! Not even gotten to any 3D bits yet!!!!!

PS/ Now I have..... utter disaster..... the whole screen and everything on it flickers, jitters and vanishes..... violently.
Totally unplayable.

Looking at these forums looks like loads of people are having GFX trouble with this one..... (I might even have declined to buy it if i'd looked here first), but not *this* specific problem. Anyone know whats wrong?

I can never remember my system details much, but it is a 2.8 AMD Quad Core, GPU is an old NVidia GTX2600 if I remember right. And its Windows XP SP3.

Tried simple measures such as "compatability modes", and no effect.

Thanks

PS/ Freespace 2 is exactly the same, same glitches, same crazy flicker/flashing, weird graphical corruption smudge like artifacts. Sore odd graphical glitches seem to persist in Windows even after quitting the game!!!!!

Thanks GOG..... so much for this "it works, we promise" policy.