[RAF_Magpie]

I'm sorry you've had all that trouble.

Just speaking from my own experience,I have never ever had a problem with the NGO 215822's or the latest 116369's.
I found that they were very reliable and much better on my PC than any Nvidia driver I had tried. I, and a good number of my mates all use them. Especially to get rid of that black water ring in IL2.
Before installing,always uninstall your Nvidia graphics driver from the control panel.
They do not work with any ATI card. Only Nvidia ones.
You can see what kind of color and resolution I have from the grab I posted in 1280x1024.
My game always looks like that.Also reduced shimmering between water and land with settings on Perfect,and Water on 4.

I did all that the first time - and it did all the above problems. Although I uninstalled it, and then Reinstalled it again, and swapped my 12v rails over, then overclocked my graphics card in Steps of 50 (over a period of an hour) and now - PERFECT - fixed the above problem.