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"Flickering" is not "an artifact of the game". My game doesn't flicker, neither does Andy's neither do any of the playtesters. Also there is no "settling in" of the game. Likely what is happening is you have been lucky or more likely, not running other things at the same time.

SOMETHING you are running is interferring with the game . It could be a background program you are not even aware of or perhaps some CODEC in your machine that is causing you grief. There are threads on the MBT forum that deal with that. You're machine specs, aside from the notebook issue, are very similar to my specs ( but it's a desktop and I'm running a PentIII at ~800mhz but with only 128MB or Ram ).

Try checking the Direct X functioning in your machine ( type in DXDiag to the "RUN" line of the Start menu and have a look at what's happening there.) Also, try running windowed for awhile and let us know if that changes things for you. It might be a bit small on your screen but if it plays clear then that might be the only way your notebook will properly play the game. However, you problem is NOT common

Don