rss0900 said:
If you change the anti-alias options when zoomed out the problems clears itself - at least for me. I run at level 4 and when I have the graphic corruption issue, turn anti-alias down to 0 or 2 and the screen is clear again(normal - no lines). Shortly after playing (15-20) seconds I zoom out again to find the same issue. Could it be a problem with the anti-alias?
It's possible, but unlikely, as I have tried with it at all of the anti-aliasing settings, and I get the glitches no matter what setting I have used.
However, what I did find, is that the glitch is MUCH more likely to show up towards the end of the game, when the CPU (and, the video card) is taxed much more heavily, than at the beginning. I have even had the glitch after going to 1024x768, no anti-aliasing, and low model details.
It appears so far that most of the people that have the glitch are using the 81.85 (or higher) drivers. I recommend going back to an older driver, to see if that works. With a 6800GT, like I have, I don't think that there is a huge performance or a quality difference between the 8x.xx and the 7x.xx drivers, at least not one that I could tell. My guess is that the 8x.xx Nvidia drivers enabled something on the 6800 series that doesn't play nicely with Firaxis's game. Strange that they didn't catch it in QA testing, though, as most developers and publishers test with a pretty wide variety of hardware and drivers. Hopefully, Firaxis patches it up, although I wouldn't blame them for the technical issues, as the publisher, 2K Games, should have caught it prior to release.