Assassin's Creed PC + Radeon 4850 - Artifacts?

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I just picked up this game for my 4850 system, and I've noticed a few things:

One, the Anisotropic filtering is off. I can see distinct mip-map lines on some surfaces.

Two, I'm seeing all sorts of lighting artifacts: when my character, NPCs or even walls get in the way of certain light sources, they are drawn OVER TOP of the obstacle, instead of being hidden from view. I haven't seen a game with such poor lighting effects for years, and after all the hype of this title's graphics, I can only assume they are artifacts.

I guess I could take a screen shot, but I'd have to install a utility to do so.
 
Okay, here are images of the problem:

Okay, see that checkerboard lighting pattern? That's from the window IN FRONT of my character. It should be occluded (blocked from view) when I walk in front of it.

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More fun with lighting effects going right through me. You can see the six intense lights under the table, and also see a floor reflection effect below that. Neither should be visible, unless this game engine is crap and it does this for all cards.

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Oh, looks like I'm not the only one who is too shiny. You can easily see two lights through the chick, two of the same lights from the picture above.

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So, what the hell is this crap? Is this normal, or is there something wrong with my card?

I'm on Windows XP, 4GB ram, using Cat 8.6, no hotfix.
 
No idea... I just beat this game on my 4870 and vista x64 and never had any problems.

I have all my AA/AF on application preference and I have all my in game settings for Assasin's Creed on Max.
 
I am using 8.7 at the moment but I didnt notice anything when I had 8.6 either

I am runing in dx10 mode and vista is the only big difference that I can see. Perhaps run a driver cleaner and install 8.7s
 
im using 8.6 with my 4850 and just beat through the game the other day and it works fine without any artifacts
 
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