Screen glitching with Asassin's Creed

I tried running Asassins Creed on my Asus M50(P9300, 3gb ram, Nvidia 9500M GS, Vista, 1440x900), but there are fuzzy lines running across the screen, and everything is black and white. I tried using low settings(800x600, and low detail on everything), but the problem is still there. My system meets the minimum specs, and Ubisoft system req's check came up with green checkmarks for all categories. It can take UTIII at max settings, Stalker at max settings, and World in Conflict at high settings, so I'm really not sure what is happening here. The driver I'm currently using with my 9500M GS are the 194.??(can't remember what's after the decimal). Should I try different drivers, or is my laptop just not cut out to handle Asassin's Creed? The game was purchased through Steam, the cpu & gpu are not overclocked, and the laptop is undervolted.

 

That seems like a driver problem, or maybe your card is artifacting, which would be bad news. I would try some other drivers before you panic.

 

There's 2 ways to play it. dx9 and dx10. Have you tried both and got the same results.

 

Try getting the latest graphics and patch up the game, and also try playing it in DirectX 9.

 

i recommend that u use the official NVDIA 186.81 drivers.. they're the coolest ones so far... also i do believe u might be having overheating problems so i recommend that u can clean the vents of your laptops using compressed air , undervolt your CPU , u can find the undervolting guide in the forum and lastly use a notebook cooling pad... should have no problems then...

 

you could try copying d3d9x.dll...d3d10.dll and similar to the same dir as AssassinCreed's exe from windows\system32. or move all directx dlls from creed's directory.
I once had funny lines in kotor2 because stupid ATI released some glitchy opengl dll in one of their catalysts and it was fixed by using a much older dll.

 

Try 195.62 drivers.

 

186.81 are better... more stable and less likely to have heat problems..