Vista/ATI Spell effect glitch-rectangles

[themaelstorm]

Hello everyone,
After all this time, I suddenly had the chance to play the game. However, fate has spinned her webs.

I played a bit and at some point faced a group of Cranium Rats, which can cast spells when in rather large numbers from what I understand. The thing is, the spells show as weird rectangles, totally ruining the spell area and denying me of seeing the supposedly wonderful effects.

First thing I tried was compability, didn't work. Then tried getting my desktop to 16 bit color, didn't work.
After that, I did a bit of research. I tried setting my hardware acceleration to the minimum stance, as it says on the FAQ in GB forums but I have no access to the button and it says that my current drivers forbid me from doing it.

I tried disabling the driver, but I couldn't open Ps:T at all when I did that.

Then I tried installing microsoft compability mode thingy, made a database, forced direct draw emulation thing. I am able to enter the game ater that, but I can't see my save files.

I've done more research, but as far as I've seen, the above steps seems to have sold the problem for others.

Can anyone help me with this matter? I've an ATI Radeon 2400HD Pro, latest catalyst drivers and a Vista 32-bit.

Any help is greatly appriciated, since I'm really into this game.

[sphinxo]

You need to turn DirectX features off.

That is, go to Start -> Run -> dxdiag -> Display, and disable 'DirectDraw Acceleration' (and all other accelerations if they won't get disabled after the first step).

Also, it makes sense to disable sound acceleration in the next tab.