Quote Originally Posted by Blodrast
Damn. Suckier and suckier.
No, I'm convinced it's the driver & mb combo, I'm not doubting that at all, I was just hoping that by changing DirectX (or other things), it might not be _triggered_, that is all. Obviously I was wrong.

Guess I'm totally out of ideas for now :(, but I'll keep looking around, and if I come up with something, or an idea, I'll naturally let you know...
Thanks for the input, and concern, Blodrast, it is appreciated. I'm totally out of ideas myself. I'll probably have to wait until I can afford a new system before I'll be able to play TW again. I'm not about to go and stick the down-clocked Radeon 9800 back in again, now that I've got Ubuntu running so well.

@Motep: There is not a chance in hell that I'm paying for Vista and I don't want to go to the hassle of acquiring it by "other means" and messing around trying to circumvent M$'s WGA, so that's not even an option. Also spending good money on an OS simply to "upgrade and downgrade" is out of the question.