Hey,
First things first: I'm speechless. What you've done is beautiful

BUT
I'm having a 'small' problem, as follows:
I fire up the game (4989 nightly build + mvps -no other mods). Everything seems to be working perfectly. I enter the techroom in order to drool over the new shiny htls and normal maps. I see the Ulysses...wow! I see the Herc I...wow! I see the Medusa...

I see the Hatshepsut...
The game freezes.
Nothing works, but the music still plays. I've got to Ctrl-Alt-Del my way back to my desktop.
I've tried it with other builds -no luck. The game still freezes after a while (and it seems like selecting certain ships like the Hatshepsut, the Fenris-Levy and some bombers are big no-nos).
I've played around with the launcher options, and it seems like -no_glsl 'fixes' it. But I
know that my GPU (X1950 pro) fully supports SM3.0, and OGL2.0. I
should be able to enjoy the new shinies! And I've downloaded the latest Catalyst 8.12 drivers, so this ain't my problem either...
I've also got a Dual-C 2Ghz processor, 2GB of Ram, and I'm running Vista HP.
After a bit of tinkering, with no luck, I fired up the debugger and got this in the error.log:
"Access Violation in module atioglxx.dll"
Hmmmm...
After that I googled around a bit and tried a few 'solutions', namely grabbing atioglxx.dll's from previous drivers, re-expanding the current driver's dl_ and so on and so forth. Still no luck.
Bottomline: I
know that my GPU
can handle the new graphics, namely because I can
see them (albeit only for a few minutes). The game does
not lag, stutter or crawl, it just suddenly FREEZES!

Now I
can play with no_glsl, but I shouldn't
have to.
So please, any ideas?