Flying/Flickering Text

[Carlos_Benitez]

I have been through this forum looking for a solution, and whilst the problem has been mentioned numerous times in passing, I diddnt find a solution.

So, I recently installed freelancer on my new laptop. Heres the spec, for referance;

(Bought 2 months ago.)
Vista Home Premium 32bit.
Intel Core 2 Processor 1.37ghz
Mobile Intel 945 Express Chipset Family.

I had a similar problem when I installed Vice City...only worse. Flying character maps and flickering. I updated my chipset drivers, and the problem was solved. (after many hours questioning the logic of new updates solving a problem with an old game).

Naturally, as a result, I have the latest drivers for my video card.. and I just checked again.

Anyways, the nature of the problem is that text is flying across the screen, in all directions, flickering and making it difficult to play. Its only once I get in-game that this begins. Main menu is fine. Menu within game suffers from the problem.
My game also crashes randomly for very little reason, although crashes seem to happen at a similar time to when a large ammount of flying-text appears.
If anyone can provide a solution, please post. Sorry if this has been solved before, and im simply useless at sifting through topics. :(

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