Splinter Cell Radeon 9700Pro yellow band on screen

Anyone else have the same problem I'm having with Splinter Cell and the ATI Radeon 9700pro card?

you can see the problem at this webpage:

http://home.quixnet.net/~normjohn/SCintro.htm

I use a Dell Dimension 8200 P4 2.4Ghz, 512Mb RDram, Win XP home

I've installed Windows ServicePK1, updated directx to 9, updated Bios, updated ATI Catalyst driver to 3.2 and installed the Ubi game patch.

what gives?!

neither Ubi Soft or ATI have given me a solution

beyond that... it's a great game, just finished it yesterday

P.S. FYI I have no problems or noticable/significant graphic artifacts running System Shock 2, Deus Ex, Red Faction, Red Alert 2, Warcraft III, Jedi Knight II, NOLF 2, RTCW or MOH.

FINALLY!!! 4-16-03

downloaded patch 1.2

at default settings yellow band is even bigger about 1/3 of screen.

tried different settings and problem is virtually gone except for occasional bright spot caused by nearby lights in scene. other than that, video is fine at these settings:

In Splinter Cell graphics settings:
resolution 1024X768 (this was the final change that made it all work)
all other settings set to max (high or very high)

in the ATI control panel: (in both DirectX and OpenGL)
main settings slider set to Quality (all the way to the right)

Anti-liasing (not set to application preference) 4X
Anisotropic Filtering 16x

Texture preference High Quality
mipmapping detail High Quality
Wait for Vertical Sync Application Preference

Even the night vision works fine now - Yahoo!

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by GeekFreek on 04/16/03 11:55 AM.</EM></FONT></P>