Okay just yesterday I noticed I am having issues (im not onlinemuch) with artifacts showing in my ciewer (black flecs/specs) and I basically have to turn shaders and basic shaders off to get a clean picture but water and all the detail looks like crap.
I too am afraid to mess with bio and adriver updates - what did you do to back up your system? And if I read this correctly you had to go to ATI for the driver update not Alienware right - wonder why the alienware driver update is not working.