Unresolved Radeon 8500 issues. Is there a work around?

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There appears to be no search facility on this forum, so I have not been able to discover whether this problem has been solved. But I did look back a few pages in the forum, to no avail.

Ubisoft state:

“6.4. Known Problems

On ATI Radeon 8500,9000,9200 there are graphic artefacts consisting in missing triangles from the game sky.�

After patch 1.4 and the very latest Radeon drivers, the sky still winks at you like a demented dockside woman.

Personally, I would prefer a sky that is simply a backdrop (ie does not change) to this blinking inferno.

Has anybody made one as a mod?

Or discovered a fix?

Or is there some way to turn the sky off? Or freeze it?

Or are there any other drivers that will solve this problem?

My card is the 8500 64 Mb one.

I wonder if before releasing this game, let alone patching it, Ubisoft gave any thought at all to the large number of gamers who would be likely to be using these cards.