Yes, renaming the logo and intro videos will take care of the CTD problems. I chose to rename their extension (added a .bak), and the game runs fine. And bloody hell yeah! I can see the halo!
BUT...yes, there's a big BUT there. Well, four actually, one of which has already been covered. Here's what I mean:
1. I suffer a huge performance hit when GPUperfstudio is running on the background, no matter if I apply the fix or not. My already borderline FPS plummet from 23 to 13! And I can clearly see a fluctuation there, FPS go from 8 to 13 and back again all the time, following a pattern that clearly follows the applications' monitoring progress in the background
2. I can't Alt-Tab out of the game (already covered)
3. The sun halo shows through the submarine, when I align it with the rising/setting sun
4. The submarine's wake loses its crispness. It looks more like some white oily substance, and nothing like sea foam.
You can all understand that I'm sticking to the boring red orb, until ATi comes up with a solution in its new set of drivers, now that the problem has been pin-pointed (high hopes, I know
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